Main Meal Recipes > Cantonese Chicken

How to make Cantonese chicken:
Chicken served in a Cantonese style sauce.



Ingredients

4 fluid oz fresh orange juice
8 lychees, stones removed, flesh cut into quarters
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon tomato puree
2 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons water
8oz chicken, all skin and bones removed, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon cornflour, seasoned with salt and pepper
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Mix together the lychees, tomato puree, soy sauce, orange juice and water.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan or wok.
- Roll the sliced chicken in the seasoned cornflour.
- Stir fry the chicken for about 2 minutes.
- Add the orange juice and lychees mixture.
- Heat gently, stirring until heated through and thickened.


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