Chinese Chicken Recipes - Chicken with Peanuts Recipe
Ingredients
225 g/8 oz chicken, thinly
sliced
1 egg white, lightly beaten
10 ml/2 tsp corn-flour
(cornstarch)
45 mll3 tbsp groundnut
(peanut) oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 slice ginger root, minced
2 leeks, chopped
30 ml/2 tbsp soy sauce
15 ml/1 tbsp rice wine or
dry sherry
100 g/4 oz/ roasted peanuts
Method:
Mix the chicken with the egg white and corn-flour
until well coated. Heat half the oil and stir-fry
the chicken until golden brown then remove from the
pan.
Heat the remaining oil and fry and garlic and
ginger until softened. Add the leeks and fry until
lightly browned.
Stir in the soy sauce and wine or
sherry and simmer for 3 minutes. Return the chicken
to the pan with the peanuts and simmer gently until
heated through.