Recipe & Video Chinese Almond Chicken - Xing Ren Ji

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Recipe

Ingredients

600gms chicken thigh fillets cut to strips
3/4 cup almonds
1 small red onion cut to small chunks
3 cloves garlic chopped
1 large knob ginger julienned
1 small red capsicum seeded and cut to strips
1 good handful green beans (topped and tailed)
1/3 cup sliced water chestnuts
1/3 cup chicken stock
1/3 cup Chinese cooking wine
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp cornflour dissolved in a little water
1 tsp ground white pepper
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

Heat oil in a heavy base wok.
Add onion, garlic, and ginger and stir briefly
Add chicken, white pepper, and almonds and saute another minute stirring constantly
Add capsicum, beans, and chestnuts and stir through
Add stock, wine, soy sauce, and sugar and mix thoroughly before bringing to a vigorous boil.
Stir through cornflour slurry and stir until liquids thicken and turn glossy
Remove from heat and serve immediately


View: https://youtu.be/5N3WOZX4ODI
 
Is cornflour what we in the US call cornstarch?

Beautiful food, looks and sounds delicious!
 
That's right - in AUS, NZ and UK its called cornflour.

In parts of Europe its maize starch.
We have corn flour (corn meal) here but it's not cornstarch, it's more of a grainy flour (masa or masa harina) of ground corn. But I figured it was probably cornstarch because of it's usage as a thickener.
 
Cornstarch or cornflour - either one is correct.
What you want to avoid like the plague is masa harina (which is nixtmalizado - treated with lye) and harina PAN - which is coarse, milled white corn used to make arepas in Venezuela.
 
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