Chicken Flavored Chestnuts Recipe

cooking time: 40-45 minutes

 

Ingredient

  • 30 chestnuts

  • 6 dried mushrooms

  • 227 grams chicken meat uncooked

  • 2 tablespoons oil

  • 1 medium-sized onion, chopped

  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, chopped

  • 4 tablespoons soy sauce

  • 1 teaspoon salt

  • 1 tablespoon sugar

  • 1 tablespoon sherry

  • 1 tablespoon corn flour

  • 570 ml hot chicken stock (or water)

Method

 

1. Boil the chestnuts for 30 minutes and peel.
2. Soak the mushrooms in enough warm water to cover for 30 minutes, drain, cut off stalks and

   slice mushrooms into thin strips.
3. Cut chicken meat into 1-inch pieces.

4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in pan, fry the onion until golden and remove.
5. Reheat pan, add another tablespoon oil and brown the chicken quickly with the ginger.
6. Add mushrooms and cook together for one minute.
7. Mix soy sauce, salt, sugar, sherry and corn flour, add to chicken and stir for one minute.
8. Add onions, hot stock and chestnuts.
9. Simmer until the chicken is tender and serve very hot.

 

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