FEATURE RECIPE
Stir-fried chicken and ginger

Stir-fried chicken and ginger

Serves 4



35 gm (¼ cup)   potato flour, plus 1 tsp extra (see note)
420 gm   organic chicken breast, thinly sliced across the grain
2 tbsp   peanut oil
5 cm piece   ginger, peeled and crushed with the side of a cleaver
1   golden shallot, finely chopped
100 gm   sugar snap peas
60 ml (¼ cup)   chicken stock
2 tsp   Shaoxing wine
½ tsp   light soy sauce
Pinch   white sugar


1 Combine potato flour and 1 cup water in a large bowl and stir to dissolve. Add chicken pieces and mix to combine. Cover and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes.
2 Blanch chicken pieces in boiling water for 30 seconds, then rinse to remove excess flour mixture. Drain on an absorbent paper-lined plate.
3 Heat oil in a wok over high heat, add ginger and shallot, then chicken and sugar snap peas and stir-fry for 1 minute, add chicken stock, then Shaoxing wine, soy sauce and sugar and stir-fry for 1 minute. Season to taste with sea salt.
4 Combine extra potato flour and 2 tbsp cold water and stir into wok, cook for 1 minute or until thickened. Serve immediately.

Note Potato flour is available from health food stores and Asian supermarkets. Recipe shown above with mushroom fried rice.

RECIPE Lau's Family Kitchen PHOTOGRAPHY Con Poulos STYLING Rodney Dunn


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