Chinese Chicken Recipes - Chicken with Peanut Butter Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts, diced

• salt and freshly ground pepper

• 5 ml/1 tsp five-spice powder

• 45 ml/3 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil

• 1 onion, diced

• 2 carrots, diced

• 1 stick celery, diced

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups chicken stock to ml/2 tsp tomato puree (paste)

• 100 g/4 oz peanut butter

• 15 mill tbsp soy sauce

• 10 ml/2 tsp corn-flour (cornstarch)

• pinch of brown sugar

• 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped chives

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Method:

1. Season the chicken with salt, pepper and five-spice powder. Heat the oil and stir-fry the chicken until tender. Remove from the pan.

2. Add the vegetables and fry until tender but still crisp. Mix the stock with the remaining ingredients except the chives, stir into the pan and bring to the boil.

3. Return the chicken to the pan and reheat, stirring. Serve sprinkled with sugar.