Zhanyi Chili Chicken 沾益辣子鸡
Zhanyi Chili Chicken is featured among the local specialties of Yunnan.
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Zhanyi Chili Chicken (沾益辣子鸡) is a local chicken dish from Zhanyi (沾益), Qujing (曲靖). A district government account describes its main ingredients as locally raised chickens at least a year old, Qiubei chillies (丘北椒), ginger and garlic.
Chilli paste and marinated chicken
In the documented preparation, cleaned chicken is soaked in water, chopped into roughly three-centimetre pieces and briefly marinated. The chillies are soaked and made into a paste. Finely chopped ginger and garlic are then fried with that paste over high heat before the marinated chicken is added and stir-fried until strongly aromatic.
A local table of accompaniments
The government describes serving the chicken as part of a meal with fried potatoes, fried stinky tofu, lightly boiled bitter-greens soup, soft tofu and small steamed buns.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-30. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.