Chicken and Peanuts
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
2-4
ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts, split
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 (6 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, with liquid (replace liquid with water or chicken stock if you omit the mushrooms)
- 1⁄2 cup scallion, chopped or sliced
- 1 garlic clove, minced finely
- 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (or cayenne pepper, more or less, depending on taste for heat)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 cup pancake syrup (or maple syrup)
- 1⁄4 cup soy sauce
- 1⁄4 cup dry sherry or 1/4 cup dry white wine, of your choice
- 1⁄2 cup peanuts (I used just regular, salted, but you could use whatever you want or have on hand)
directions
- If bones, bone chicken -- cut up into 1" chunks.
- Once oil is hot, put chicken pieces in the pan and cook til juices run clear and chicken is no longer pink. (7-12 minutes, depending on size of your chunks).
- Add to the pan: mushrooms -- and liquid!; garlic; ground ginger; red pepper flakes (or cayenne, for the brave); pancake syrup; and soy sauce.
- Add cornstarch last.
- Cook on medium heat until 'sauce' is thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Add scallions.
- Cover, cook on low for 10 minutes.
- Add peanuts & wine (or sherry), and cook on low (or even warm) for approximately 3-5 minutes -- just until heated through (or alcohol is cooked off, if serving to children.).
- Serve over hot, prepared white rice.
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