Chicken with Walnuts

Ingredients list for Chicken with Walnuts

• 400 grams Boneless chicken breasts cut into 1 inch pieces
• ½ cup Walnut kernels roasted
• 1 Egg
• 6 tablespoons Cornflour/ corn starch
• to taste Salt
• 2 tablespoons Soy sauce
• for deep-frying Oil 3 tablespoons +
• 4-6 Garlic cloves finely chopped
• 2-3 Dried red chillies broken into 2 pieces
• 1 medium Onion cut into 1 inch pieces, layers separated
• 1 stalk Celery cut into 1 inch pieces
• 4-6 Button mushrooms quartered
• ½ teaspoon Sugar
• 1½ cups Chicken stock
• ½ medium Green capsicum
• ½ medium Red capsicum
• ½ medium Yellow capsicum cut into 1 inch pieces

Method

1. Put egg, four tablespoons cornflour, salt and one tablespoon soy sauce in a bowl and mix. Add chicken pieces and set aside, to marinate, for half an hour.
2. Mix remaining cornflour in one cup of water.
3. Heat sufficient oil in a wok and deep-fry marinated chicken for two to three minutes. Drain on absorbent paper.
4. Heat three tablespoons oil in a non-stick wok. Add garlic and red chillies and saute for half a minute. Add onion, celery, button mushrooms and all the capsicum pieces and continue to saute for a couple of minutes.
5. Add remaining soy sauce, sugar, chicken stock and salt and mix. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir in the cornflour mixture. Cook on medium heat, stirring continuously, for a minute or until the sauce starts to thicken.
6. Add fried chicken and walnut kernels and continue to cook for a couple of minutes on high heat, tossing and turning continuously.
7. Transfer into a serving bowl and serve hot.

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