Deep Fried Chicken with Walnuts

Name: Deep Fried Chicken with Walnuts (Hu t’ao cha chi p’ien)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon flavored pepper-salt; ½ tablespoon wine; 1 teaspoon flavored pepper-salt; ¾ pounds chicken breasts; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup walnuts (or cashew nuts); 1 cup walnuts (or cashew nuts); 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 1 egg white; 6 cups oil

Hu t’ao cha chi p’ien

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

¾ pounds chicken breasts
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup

Asia
Taiwan
Kiangsu
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Remove the skin and membrane from chicken meat, slice into 1-½” wide, 2” long, ⅛” thick pieces, and place in a bowl to marinate with egg white, salt, wine and cornstarch. Set aside about 15 minutes.
Boil the walnuts in boiling water about 10 seconds, remove and let cool, then chop into small pieces the size of rice.
Dredge the chicken pieces on all si