Chinese Chickens
Recipes - 'White Flower' Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
1 large raw skinned breast
of roasting chicken
few drops ginger sherry
salt and Ve-Tsin
(M.S.G.)
few shakes pepper
3 raw Pacific prawns
3 canned water chestnuts
1 small spring onion
1 small egg white
few drops sesame oil
1/2-1 level teaspoon corn-flour
peanut oil
Method:
Cut the skinned
chicken breast diagonally into 3 slices so that each
is as large as possible. Work the sherry, pinch
salt, pinch Ve-Tsin and a few shakes pepper into
them and set aside.
Remove the shells
and the black intestinal lines, then chop the
prawns, chestnuts and onion and mix to a smooth
paste.
Beat the egg white to a slight troth and work
it in, together with a further pinch salt, pinch Ve-Tsin, few shakes pepper and the sesame oil.
Lay the chicken
slices on a clean surface (an enameled tray is
ideal) and sprinkle them with the corn-flour. Place a
portion of the prawn paste on each and smooth it to
the shape of the slice but slightly rounded on top.
Heat the oil to
375°F. or 190°C. Drop the chicken slices into it and
cook them for 5 minutes. Lift out and cut into
diagonal slices.
Slip the knife under each and
carefully transfer to a heated serving dish so that
each portion retains its shape.