Chinese Chickens Recipes - Chicken Breasts with Bean Sprouts Recipe

Ingredients

• 8 oz. bean sprouts

• 3 tablespoons cooked chicken, in strips

• 2 tablespoons peanut oil

• 1 small onion, roughly chopped chicken stock

• pepper, salt, Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 1 teaspoon ginger sherry

• 3/4 teaspoon soy sauce

• 1 teaspoon corn-flour

• 1 dessertspoon water

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Method:

1. Pick over sprouts, discarding any seeds. Heat half oil and quickly fry onion in it. Add 1 teaspoon chicken stock, tiny pinch pepper, good pinch salt and pinch Ve-Tsin and sprouts and cook for 3 minutes, turning sprouts over and over.

2. Transfer to a heated dish; keep hot. Wipe out pan. Add remaining oil; toss and cook the chicken pieces in it at a good heat for 1 minute.

3. Add 1/4 pint (U.S. 5/8 cup) chicken stock, sherry, seasonings and soy sauce. Stir in corn-flour, blended with the water, and cook for a further 1 1/2 minutes. Put on bean sprouts. Serve.