Quick-fried Hot Diced Chicken, Sichuan Style

Those whom God calls to the work, He usually so strips and empties, so pulls down, humbles, and abases, so shows them what the ministry is, and their own unfitness for it—that they shrink back from so arduous and important a work, and can scarcely be persuaded that they are called to it. We need hardly remark how different this is from the forward, pushing, bold, if not presuming spirit which so many manifest in their ambitious aim almost to force their way into the pulpit.

J.C. Philpot

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains, Vegetables	Chinese	Chinese, Poultry	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

7	oz	Chicken breasts and thighs
2	T	Cornstarch, cornflour
		dissolved in
2	T	Water
1/8	t	Salt, or to taste
2	t	Rice wine
1 1/2	t	Soy sauce
1	c	High stock
1	t	Sesame oil
5		Water water chestnuts
1		Hot red chili, chilli
		pepper
1/2	c	Vegetable oil
1	t	Ginger slices
2	t	Scallions, chopped
1	t	Garlic slices
1/8	t	Rice vinegar
1/8	t	Msg

INSTRUCTIONS

Skin, bone, and dice the chicken. Blend 1 tbsp of the cornstarch-water
mixture with salt and 1 tsp of the rice wine. Add the chicken and  stir
to coat well. Set aside. In another bowl, mix the soy sauce, the
remaining 1 tsp rice wine, the stock, the other 1 tbsp of cornstarch,
MSG and the sesame oil into a sauce. Set aside. Peel and dice the
water chestnuts. Seed the chili pepper and chop finely. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a wok over high heat to 225, or until small bubbles
appear around the edge of a piece of scallion green or ginger tossed
into the oil. Add the chicken and chili pepper and stir-fry until the
chicken turns red. Add the ginger, water chestnuts, scallions and
garlic, and fry until fragrant. Stir in the sauce and sprinkle with
the vinegar. Stir-fry about 30 seconds. Remove, and serve. Posted to
recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 233 by James and Susan Kirkland
<kirkland@gj.net> on Nov 09, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. #C.S. Lewis”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1018 Calories From Fat: 1004 Total Fat: 113.6g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 558.9mg Potassium: 132.2mg Carbohydrates: 7.3g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: <1g