Diced Chicken with Walnuts

Name: Diced Chicken with Walnuts (T’ao jen chi ting)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon wine; ½ tablespoon brown vinegar; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 4 cups oil; 1 chicken (boned) or 1 pound chicken breasts; 1 chicken (boned) or 1 pound chicken breasts; 1 green pepper; 3 green onion; 15 slices ginger; 1 red hot pepper; ⅔ cup walnut halves (or cashew nuts); ⅔ cup walnut halves (or cashew nuts); 1 tablespoon cornstarch paste; ½ egg white

T’ao jen chi ting

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 chicken (boned) or 1 pound chicken breasts
3 green onion
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Asia
Taiwan
Fukien
Kwangtung
Dinner

Method

Cut the boned chicken into pieces the size of a walnut half and mix thoroughly with marinade. Let stand for at least 30 minutes.
Cut green onion into ½” long pieces. Cut green pepper, red pepper the same size as chicken (keep separate) and 2 slices of fresh ginger (or ¼ teaspoon powdered ginger). If fresh ginger is used, by far the better, the slices should be