Recipe - Stir-Fried Chicken And Bitter Melon

2 teaspoon Fermented black beans
1 Chicken breast
1 Bitter melon
1 Clove garlic
One half cup Stock
1 teaspoon Cornstarch
1 tablespoon Sherry
3 dr Sesame oil; more or less
2 tablespoon Oil
1 tablespoon Oil
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Soy sauce

1. Soak fermented black beans.

2. Skin and bone chicken; then cut in strips. Cut bitter melon lengthwise
in half and scoop out seeds; then cut in strips and parboil 3 minutes.

3. Mince garlic and mash with soaked black beans.

4. Combine stock, cornstarch, sherry and sesame oil.

5. Heat oil. Add chicken and stirfry until it loses its pinkness (about 2
minutes). Remove from pan.

6. Heat remaining oil. Add black bean mixture and stirfry a few times. Add
bitter melon and stirfry to heat through (about 1 minute).

7. Return chicken; then stir in stock mixture and heat quickly. Cook,
covered, 2 minutes over medium heat.

8. Stir in sugar and soy sauce to blend in (about 1 minute more). Serve at
once.

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