Nanking Chicken

a Chinese influenced chicken dish easy to make and very delicious

Ingredients :
400 g chicken meat
150 g shrimp, peeled
1/2 tsp salt (or to taste)
1/2 tsp ground pepper (or to taste)
100 g wheat flour, sieved
2 yellow eggs, 40 g
100 g bread crumb
300 ml cooking oil, for frying

Sauce :
2 cloves garlic, 10 g
10 g ginger
1 Tbs cooking oil, 10 ml, for stri frying
3 red tomatoes, 300 g, boiled, mashed
1 tsp salt, 4 g (or to taste)
1 tsp ground pepper, 3 g (or to taste)
1 tsp granulated sugar, 5 g
1 tbs corn flour, 10 g, diluted with 20 ml water
1 leek, 20 cm, cut finely for granishing

Method :

  1. Cut chicken into paper thin slices.
  2. Chop shrimp and mix with salt, pepper, and 1 tbs wheat flour.
  3. Take each time 1 chicken slice, put 1-2 tbs shrimp mixture, roll with the rest of wheat flour, coat with yellow eggs, roll again in the bread crumb. Fried until done and brownish. Take from flame and drain.
  4. To make sauce : Make garlic and ginger into a paste. Stir fry until aromatic, add mashed tomato. Season with salt, pepper, and granulated sugar, let come to a boil. Take from flame and strain. Put ingredients of Step 4 in the wok, pour in diluted corn flour. Let come to boil until sauce thickens. Serve with fried chicken and garnish with leek slices.

Note :
4 servings

Source : Magazine Selera, July 1994