One of my favorite dishes is Chinese almond chicken but of course its usually loaded in sodium and is fried in grease.... so I came up with my own recipe and it is simple and amazing!!!!! :)
Almond Chicken
Chicken ingredients:
- 3 chicken breast
- 2 egg whites or 3 tbs of egg beaters
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1tsp braggs liquid amino liquids or low sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tbs rice wine (sake) or sherry
- 3/4 cup slivered almonds
- water chestnuts
- 1 can small corns
- cut chicken breast into cubes and add eggs, salt, cornstarch and let sit for about 10 min.
- in a hot skillet add onions and let cook down for a few min until translucent then add garlic, chicken and let cook down for like 5-8 min then add chestnuts and corns.
- while that is cooking in a small bowl add wine and soy sauce and mix then add to chicken and let cook down for another 3-5 min on low.
- in another hot pan toast almonds for about 5 min, then add into chicken mixture.
- 2 Cups of all natural low sodium chicken stock
- 1/2 tbs liquid aminos or low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tbs of rice wine or sherry
- 2tbs of cornstarch
- combine all ingredients on a pot and let thicken up then poor into chicken mixture.
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