Sweet and Sour Sesame Chicken

Name: Sweet and Sour Sesame Chicken
Yield: Serves 4 Generously
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 2 sticks of celery, sliced; 80 ml (3 fl oz) dry sherry; 2 tablespoons cornflour mixed with a little cold water; 500 ml (18 fl oz) chicken stock; 1 tablespoon rice or white wine vinegar; 1.5 kg (3½ lb) chicken, jointed; 225 g (8 oz) canned water chestnuts, drained – but use 8 fresh ones if you can get them from Chinese stores; 3 tablespoons plum, sauce, available from oriental food suppliers; 150 g (6 oz) canned straw mushrooms; 1 tablespoon sesame seeds; 1 onion, quartered; 225 g (8 oz) canned bamboo shoots, drained and sliced; 1 tablespoon fresh root ginger, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4
Generously

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on Oz

By Keith Floyd

Published 1991

About

Ingredients

1.5 kg (3½ lb) chicken, jointed
3 tablespoons plum, sa

Oceania
Australia
Main course

Method

Put the chicken pieces into a flameproof casserole. Mix together the plum sauce, vinegar, stock, sherry and ginger and pour over the chicken. Cover and bake in a preheated oven, 180°C/350°F (gas mark 4), for 40 minutes. Tip in the vegetables, return the casserole to the oven and cook for 15 minutes more. Lift