Chicken with Water Chestnuts
Ingredients
- 45 ml peanut oil
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and crushed
- 2 spring onions chopped
- 1 slice ginger root finely chopped
- 225 g chicken breast sliced in to slivers
- 100 g water chestnuts sliced in to slivers
- 45 ml soy sauce
- 15 ml rice wine or dry sherry
- 5 ml cornstarch
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Instructions
- Heat the oil in a wok over a medium-high flame
- Put the garlic in the hot oil
- Put the ginger in the hot oil
- Put the spring onions in the hot oil
- Stir fry until the garlic is lightly browned
- Add the chicken to the wok
- Stir fry for 5 minutes
- Add the water chestnuts to the wok
- Stir fry everything for another 3 minutes
- Add the soy sauce to the wok
- Add the rice wine (or dry sherry) to the wok
- Sprinkle the cornstarch over the top
- Stir-fry, coating the chicken with the cornstarch
- Stir-fry for around 5 minutes or so, until the chicken is thoroughly cooked through.