Chicken with Bamboo Shoot

Name: Chicken with Bamboo Shoot
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz bamboo shoot slices, drained and rinsed; 450 g/1 lb skinless chicken breasts; 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped Chinese celery leaves; 15 ml/1 tbsp sesame oil; 30 ml/2 tbsp groundnut/peanut oil; 30 ml/2 tbsp groundnut/peanut oil; 2.5 ml/½ tsp caster/superfine sugar; 15 ml/1 tbsp light soy sauce, or to taste; 15 ml/1 tbsp yellow bean sauce; 2.5 ml/½ tsp caster/superfine sugar; 5 ml/1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch; 5 ml/1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

This classic dish from Yunnan, the southernmost province of western China, is simple to prepare and uses ingredients that are common throughout China: Chinese celery leaves, chicken, sesame oil and yellow bean sauce, which marry well with the strong flavour of bamboo shoots.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz bamboo shoot slices, drained and rinsed
450 g/1

Asia
China
Yunnan
Main course

Method

Soak the bamboo shoots in cold water for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, slice the chicken into strips about 2cm/¾in wide. Slice the soaked bamboo shoots into strips or leave as thin slices if they are small.
Heat the oil in a wok until you can see the barest hint of smoke curling up, then add the chicken and stir-fry for 1 minute.
Add the bamboo shoots and st