Recipe - Braised Chicken With Dried Chestnuts

One half (up to)
1 cup Dried chestnuts
1 Spring chicken
2 (up to)
3 tablespoon Oil
2 cup Water
2 sl Fresh ginger root
2 tablespoon Soy sauce
2 tablespoon Sherry
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Sugar

1. Parboil dried clestnuts (see "Glossary of Chinese Ingredients").

2. With a cleaver, chop chicken, bones and all, in 2inch sections.

3. Heat oil in a heavy pan. Brown chicken sections quickly. Meanwhile bring
water to a boil.

4. Mince ginger root; then combine with soy sauce, sherry, salt and sugar.
Stir into pan with chickcn. Add chestnuts and water; then simmer, covered,
until done (about 45 minutes).

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.