Pomegranate Shaped Chicken

Name: Pomegranate Shaped Chicken (Shih liu chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 20 slices carrot (cooked); 2 tablespoons diced celery; 15 thin garlic chives; 15 cellophane paper squares (5” x 5”); 6 water chestnuts; ½ cups diced onion (⅓”x ⅓”); 10 mushrooms (black dried); 10 mushrooms (black dried); ½ tablespoon cornstarch; 1 teaspoon vinegar; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; ⅓ teaspoon black pepper; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; ½ tablespoon wine; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoon sugar; ½ egg white; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; ½ tablespoon soy sauce; ½ teaspoon sugar; 10 oz. chicken (boned); 10 oz. chicken (boned); 6 cups oil

Shih liu chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

10 oz. chicken (boned)
6 cups oil

Asia
Taiwan
Main course

Method

After pounding the chicken meat with the cleaver, cut it into ⅓-inch squares. Soak the chicken in the marinade for about ½ hour.
Cut the mushrooms and water chestnuts into small slices.
Heat 6 cups of oil in a pan. Fry the chicken about 5 seconds until the chicken looks half done. Remove the chicken and the oil from the pan.
Use another 3 ta