Mrs. Chen’s Chicken and Mushrooms
Ingredients:
I whole boneless, skinless chicken breast (cut into small pieces the size of your
finger)
6 mushrooms (washed, stems removed, each mushroom cut into 4 or 5 chunks)
3 cloves of garlic (skin removed, garlic chopped into small pieces)
A 1” piece of ginger root (outer layer removed, ginger chopped into small pieces)
2 spoonfuls (about 3 T.) of hot bean sauce
3 spoonfuls (about 4 T.) of dark soy sauce
3 – 4 T. cooking oil
1/3 of a spoonful of monosodium glutamate*
Water
Directions:
1. Put cooking oil into wok or non-stick pan, heat on medium-high heat.
2. Add ginger and garlic, stir a few minutes.
3. Add chicken, cook until outside of chicken is cooked.
4. Add bean sauce, stir.
5. Add mushrooms, stir.
6. Add about ½ cup of water to wok or pan; cover. Stir contents occasionally;
add more water before contents of pan get dry. Cook until inside of
chicken is no longer pink.
7. Add soy sauce; stir.
8. Add monosodium glutamate; stir.
9. Serve over rice. Eat with chopsticks and ENJOY!
*optional
(We made up 2 cups of instant white rice & served the chicken/mushroom dish
over the rice.)