CHICKEN VELVET RECIPE

This recipe will teach you how to make Chicken Velvet. It is a quick and easy recipe to make. This is a really wonderful recipe to make the flavours of the chicken, ham, snow peas and chicken stock mixed with the rest of the ingredients goes into making this wonderful asian style recipe.

Chicken Velvet Ingredients

1 1/2 tsp oil
2 Tbs cornstarch
4 cups oil for deep frying
1 1/2 cups cold chicken stock
3 egg whites beaten slightly stiff
2 oz snow peas, strings removed
2 Tbs cooked virginia ham minced
2 chicken breasts boned and skinned
1 Tbs cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons water

Chicken Velvet Method

Chop chicken very fine and soak in 1/2 cup of cold stock and then add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to chicken and mix well. Fold beaten egg whites into chicken mixture and also mix 1 tablespoon cornstarch into the chicken mixture folding lightly. Heat oil and deep fry chicken mixture and stir quickly with chopsticks in order to separate. Remove to plate and drain the oil out of the wok. Reheat 2 tablespoons of oil in wok over moderately high heat stir fry snow peas for 30 seconds then remove and set aside. Reheat 2 tablespoons of oil in the wok and add 1 cup stock. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and put in the chicken mixture and bring to the boil. Thicken with dissolved cornstarch. Serve the Chicken Velvet on a platter and trim with snow peas and garnish the Chicken Velvet with minced ham on top.

Enjoy your freshly made Chicken Velvet!