Stir-Fried Chicken in Bird’s Nest

Name: Stir-Fried Chicken in Bird’s Nest (Ch’ueh ch’ao chi ting)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 pound boned chicken; 3 tablespoons diced scallion; 20 slices of cooked carrot; ⅔ pound potatoes; 1 tablespoon sliced ginger; 1 cup diced green peppers (½” cube); 10 mushrooms cut into slices); ½ cup sliced water chestnuts (or diced bamboo shoot); ½ cup sliced water chestnuts (or diced bamboo shoot); 1-½ tablespoons cornstarch; 1 tablespoon soy sauce (light); 1 tablespoon soy sauce (light); 2 tablespoon light soy sauce; ⅓ teaspoon salt; 1 cup cornstarch; 8 cups oil; 1 tablespoon egg white; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; ½ tablespoon cornstarch; 1 tablespoon wine; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon sugar

Ch’ueh ch’ao chi ting

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 pound boned chicken
10 mushrooms cut into slices)
1 cup diced <

Asia
Taiwan
Main course

Method

Dice the chicken into ½ inch pieces and marinate for half an hour with marinating sauce (1 tablespoon of egg white, 1-½ tablespoon cornstarch, and 1 tablespoon soy sauce). Fry in lukewarm oil until the meat becomes white and then drain.
Heat the pan with 3 tablespoons of oil and saute scallion, ginger, mushrooms, water chestnuts, carrot, and green pepper. Then