Recipe: Chicken and Walnut Stirfry

Sunday, 27 December 2009

Recipe: Chicken and Walnut Stirfry

This is an amazing dish. One of my friends made it last year in one of our lessons.
The buttery nuttiness of the walnuts goes really well with the chicken and ... mmm. It is delicious!
We got a base recipe for this online, but adapted it because we had restricted ingredients.
You will need:
- 1lb chicken breast (or boneless thigh)
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp minced fresh ginger root
- 4 cloves of freshly minced garlic
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
- pinch of salt and pepper
- drizzle of veg. oil
- 6 tbsp walnuts pieces
- 4 spring onions
- ( White rice or Egg noodles to serve with)
How to go about it:
Cut the chicken into bite size cubes. Mix the garlic, ginger, soy sauce and chili flakes in a bowl. Add a pinch of salt and cracked black pepper.

Add the chicken and mix and coat well, then leave to marinate for about 10 to 15 minutes in the fridge. Heat a wok over high heat until hot. Drizzle oil into the wok and heat. Add walnuts and fry until lightly golden. take out and put into a bowl. Add the chicken and all of the marinade to the wok fry until chicken is cooked (break a peice in half it should be white and have no pink). Add The spring onions (scallions). You can serve this with either rice or egg noodles (personally, I prefer egg noodles.)

Enjoy!

Dice your chicken!

Crush your garlic and ginger and chop it into teeny tiny pieces. (I know I said mince it, but have you ever tried to pick out the garlic from a garlic mincer?!)

In a bowl mix your scallions,pepper,salt,garlic & ginger.
Though I re-wrote that recipe and method,it still seems pretty long!
(I also whacked in my walnuts too! Nothing like saving time, I say!)

Check out these beauties. I cracked them and picked
out the yummy bits. :D

You can use the packet stuff, but I had time to kill
before my driving lesson.

Throw your marinaded meat into the wok. I haven't got a wok, so I used my amazing trustworthy Indian karai.
Ive cooked Masala fish to tuna fish pasta in this Gorgeous little thing! Make sure the oil is really hot and keep moving your chicken because you dont want to be stewing it!

Serve and indulge! Eat until you feel like your going to explode. Then wash it down with some ice cold water, or maybe some blackcurrant squash. Mmmmm.

I came back from my driving lesson to find this. I think my brother liked it too much!