Chinese Almond Chicken recipe
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Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce ¾ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cornstarch 2 teaspoons sherry 3 pounds chicken, skin removed, meat removed from bones and cut into bite sized pieces 1 ½ cups peanut oil for frying 1 cup blanched almonds ⅓ cup sliced mushrooms ½ cup diagonally sliced bamboo shoots ½ cup diagonally sliced celery ¼ cup thinly sliced onion 10 whole water chestnuts, thinly sliced ¼ cup peanut oil ⅓ cup chicken stock
Nutrition Info
- 522.2 caloriescarbohydrate: 6.9 gcholesterol: 99.6 mgfat: 38.6 gfiber: 2.4 gprotein: 35.8 gsaturatedFat: 7.4 gservingSize: -sodium: 847.3 mgsugar: 1.4 gtransFat: : -unsaturatedFat: : -
Directions Chinese Almond Chicken
Directions
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Mix the soy sauce, salt, cornstarch, and sherry in a large bowl. Stir in chicken, cover and refrigerate.
Heat 1 1/2 cups of the peanut oil in a large, deep skillet. Fry almonds in the oil until golden, about 1 minute. Drain fried almonds on a paper towel.
Drain all but 3 tablespoons of oil from the skillet. Stir in the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, celery, onion, and water chestnuts. Cook and stir vegetables for 1 minute. Remove from skillet.
Heat 1/4 cup oil in the skillet. Cook and stir the marinated chicken in hot oil until no longer pink in the center, and the juices run clear, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in cooked vegetables, chicken stock, and reserved soy sauce mixture, simmer until thickened, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in fried almonds before serving.