Chinese Chickens Recipes - Chicken and Shredded Celery Recipe

Ingredients

• 2-3 tablespoons celery

• 1-2 tablespoons bamboo shoots

• 2 tablespoons Chinese mushrooms

• 3 tablespoons raw breast of chicken

• 3 dessertspoons peanut oil

• ginger sherry

• sesame oil

• pepper, salt, sugar and V e-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 2-3 tablespoons stock

• 1/2 teaspoon corn-flour

• 1 dessertspoon water

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Method:

1. Cut the celery, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and chicken into match-stick pieces and keep them separate. They can be on the one platter as long as they are apart from each other. Heat 2 dessert­spoons oil in a frying-pan.

2. Add the celery and toss it about while it cooks for 2 minutes. Add the bamboo shoots and mushrooms and cook them 3 minutes. Add 1/2 teaspoon sherry, sesame oil and a pinch pepper, salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin and move them about in the pan.

3. Add the stock and bring it to the boil. Blend the corn-flour in the water and stir it in. Boil for 1 1/2 minutes. Turn all into a heated dish.

4. Wipe out the pan or use another. Add 1 dessertspoon oil and heat it. Toss the chicken in it while it cooks for 1 1/2-2 minutes. Add 1/4 teaspoon sherry, few drops sesame oil and a small pinch of pepper, salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin.

5. Return the vegetable mixture to the pan and move it about as you heat it through. Turn this delicious savory mixture into a heated dish and serve at once.