Minced Chicken with Lima Beans

Name: Minced Chicken with Lima Beans (Chi jung ts’an tou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped ham (cooked); ½ tablespoon chicken grease; ½ tablespoon water; 1 tablespoon cornstarch (make paste); 1 tablespoon cornstarch (make paste); 1 teaspoon salt; 2 cups soup stock; 3 tablespoons oil; ⅓ pound fava beans; 5 egg whites; ½ tablespoon wine; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ pound chicken breast

Chi jung ts’an tou

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

The lima beans are actually fava beans.

Ingredients

½ pound chicken breast
½ teaspoon salt
½ tablespoon

Asia
Taiwan
Gluten-free

Method

Mince the chicken breast finely. Place in a bowl. Mix with ½ teaspoon of salt, ½ tablespoon of wine and 1 egg white. Mix well. Then add an additional egg white and mix well again. Repeat this procedure until all the five eggs white have been used up.
Cook the fava beans in boiling water for 10 seconds. Remove and plunge into cold water. Then drain and dry.