Chinese Chicken Recipes - Fried Chicken with Cucumber Recipe

Ingredients

• 225 g/8 oz chicken meat

• 1 egg white

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp corn-flour (cornstarch)

• salt

• 1/2 cucumber

• 30 ml/2 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil

• 100 g/4 oz button mushrooms

• 50 g/2 oz bamboo shoots, cut into strips

• 50 g/2 oz ham, diced

• 15 ml/1 tbsp water

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp salt

• 2.5 ml1/2 tsp rice wine or dry sherry

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp sesame oil

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Method:

1. Slice the chicken and cut it into chunks. Mix with the egg white, corn-flour and salt and leave to stand.

2. Halve the cucumber lengthways and cut diagonally into thick slices. Heat the oil and stir-fry the chicken until lightly browned then remove from the pan.

3. Add the cucumber and bamboo shoots and stir-fry for 1 minute. Return the chicken to the pan with the ham, water, salt and wine or sherry.

4. Bring to the boil and simmer until the chicken is tender. Serve sprinkled with sesame oil.