Black Pepper Soy Sauce Chicken

Ingredients:

500g chicken thigh, cut into biteable size
2 tbsp light soy sauce
½ tsp dark soy sauce
½ tbsp Mirin
1 tsp sesame oil
¼ cup water
a small knob ginger
3 cloves garlic
2 shallots
½ tsp sugar
1 tbsp ground black pepper (adjust to your own taste)

• Pound ginger, garlic and shallots together.
• Marinate chicken pieces with light soy sauce, Mirin, sesame oil , black pepper and pounded ginger, garlic and shallots for at least a couple of hours or overnight.
• Heat a little oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until cooked.  Remove the chicken and add water, dark soy sauce and sugar into the pan and bring to the boil.  Return the chicken into the pan to coat evenly. 
• Serve hot.