Moo Goo Gai Pan

Submitted by lazyme

"We love stir-fries and this another good one. Be sure to prep all of the ingredients before you start cooking, as the cooking goes very quickly."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 large boneless skinless chicken breast
• 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granule, instant
• 1 (8 ounce) can water chestnuts, drained, halved lengthwise
• 1 cup pea pods, fresh (snow peas)
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1⁄2 cup fresh mushrooms
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 4 green onions (4 to 6)
• 2 tablespoons dry sherry
• gingerroot
• 4 teaspoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 tablespoon honey

directions

1. Partially freeze chicken; thinly slice into bite-sized strips.
2. In small mixing bowl stir together the water, soy sauce, dry sherry, cornstarch, honey, and instant chicken bouillon granules; mix well.
3. Slice the drained water chestnuts; set aside.
4. Halve the pea pods crosswise; set aside.
5. Slice the mushrooms and the green onion; set aside.
6. Grate 2 teaspoons gingerroot; set aside.
7. Heat the oil in wok over high heat.
8. Add the chicken to wok and stir-fry 3 to 4 minutes.
9. Remove chicken.
10. Add more oil, if necessary.
11. Stir-fry water chestnuts, pea pods, mushrooms, green onions, and ginger for 3 to 4 minutes.
12. Return chicken to wok.
13. Stir the bouillon mixture and stir into chicken.
14. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
15. Cover and cook 2 minutes more or until heated through.

Reviews

[FLKeysJen]

*So much better than take-out* - and SO easy, especially with the clear, step-by-step instructions. Although this does serve four, the two of us nearly finished it since it was SO good! The only change I made was to marinate the chicken in sesame oil and shao xing (sherry) wine. This makes lots of delicious sauce so be sure to make some rice!

 

[GabrielleEugenie S.]

awesome thank you!

 

[K9 Owned]

We thoroughly enjoyed this as part of a 'take-out' meal last night. Made exactly as directed and it was delicious. Made for Culinary Quest 2014

 

[Lazarus]

Very good recipe! Since I needed to feed 4 adults and 2 toddlers I added 3 chicken breasts, which worked just fine. The flavour was quite nice, but I felt something was missing. Next time I may add some garlic, and perhaps a tiny bit of chili sauce for kick. I'll make this again. Thanks lazyme for posting.

 

[Chef floWer]

Yum! This recipe took me longer then 35 minutes, I had trouble with the sauce and it didn't thicken up. I knew if I worked with the recipe longer I would have had it right, but I ran out of time and had to leave to get to work, so the sauce was very runny. I increased the serving to use five chicken breast and I think that's what went wrong. I had to substitute the fresh snow peas to green beans because the snow peas were out of season, otherwise I kept to the recipe. Other then the sauce this recipe was delicious. I served it with steam rice. Thank you lazyme - *Made for Zaar World Tour 4*