Chueh Chao Chi Ting (Stir-Fried Chicken In

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Ingredients:

1 lb boned chicken

MARINATE

1 tbsp egg white
1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp soysauce (light)
10 mushrooms (sliced)
1 cup diced green peppers
1/2 cup sliced water chestnuts (or diced ba, mboo shoot)
20 slices cooked carrot
3 tbsp diced scallion
1 tbsp sliced ginger

SEASONING SAUCE

2 tbsp light soysauce
1/2 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp wine
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp sesame oil

BIRD'S NEST

2/3 lb potatoes
1/3 tsp salt
1 cup cornstarch
8 cup oil

Instructions:

Procedure:

1. Dice the chicken into 1/2 inch pieces and marinate for half an
hour with marinating sauce (1 tb of egg white, 1 1/2 tb cornstarch,
and 1 tb soysauce).
Fry in lukewarm oil until the meat becomes white and then drain.

2. Heat the pan with 3 tb of oil and saute scallion, ginger,
mushrooms, water chestnuts, carrot, green pepper. Then put in the
chicken cubes and add the seasoning sauce. Turn up to high heat. Stir
and pour into bird's nest.

3. Bird's nest: Cut the potatoes into thin shreds.
Run through cold water, drain, and dry. Place into a bowl and mix
with 1/3 ts salt, 1 cup of cornstarch. Then place potato shreds in
one strainer and press upon it another strainer and submerge both in
very hot oil. Deep fry about 4 minutes until golden brown. Drain and
take the bird's nest out from the strainer.

4. Shred and deep fry some green vegetables or shred some lettuce
and place under the nest for decoration.

Posted by [COOKIE LADY] from Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book Volume II
by Fu. Pei Mei Printed by Chiu-Yu Printing Co, Ltd (1974)

Servings: 4

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Chicken is ideal
for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

"If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday." Henri IV of France, in a conversation with the Duke of Savoy