Gong bao chicken - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 800g chicken thigh fillets, cut into 2cm pieces
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine or amontillado sherry
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1 tbsp chinkiang vinegar
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1½ tbsp chilli bean paste
• 8 spring onions
• 3cm piece ginger, peeled and finely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, very finely chopped
• 8 dried Sichuan chillies, deseeded and roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp groundnut oil
• 2 tsp Sichuan peppercorns, toasted and ground
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 75g roasted unsalted peanuts
• cooked rice, to serve