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Chicken with Mangoes

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 cups water
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 whole chicken breasts
  • 1 piece fresh ginger root
  • 8 green onions
  • 1, 15 ounce can mangoes
  • 3 cups vegetable oil
  • 3 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons dry sherry
  • 4 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoons corn-starch
  • 2 teaspoons instant chicken bouillon granules
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Directions

  1. Combine flour, 1 cup of the water, the salt and baking powder in a medium size bowl. Beat with whisk until blended. Let stand 15 minutes.
  2. Cut skinless and boneless chicken into 1/4 inch wide strips. Mix them into flour mixture.
  3. Cut ginger into wafer-thin slices. Cut onions into 1/2 inch) pieces. Drain mangoes and cut into 1/2 inch wide strips.
  4. Heat vegetable oil in wok over high heat until it reaches 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Add chicken, one strip at a time. Cook until golden, in about 3 to 5 minutes.
  5. Leave about 1 tablespoon oil in the wok. Reduce heat to medium. Add ginger to oil in wok. Stir-fry until ginger is light brown.
  6. Combine remaining 3/4 cup water, vinegar, sherry, soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, bouillon and sesame oil. Carefully add ginger all at once. Cook and stir until mixture boils. Add onions. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes.
  7. Mix chicken and mangoes into soy sauce mixture. Cook and stir 2 minutes. Serve immediately.
  8. Refrigerate until cold.
Yield
4-6