Ingredients

  • 1 each chicken, whole
  • 1 large onions cut into wedges
  • 1 cup mushrooms sliced
  • 1/2 cup celery sliced
  • 1/2 cup water chestnuts
  • 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce, tamari
  • 1/4 cup wine
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

Method

  • Take your Chinese cleaver and chop through bone of chicken.
  • Marinate all chicken chunks in wine, soya sauce, salt for at least 20 minutes.
  • In the meantime, slice all the other ingredients and have ready for cooking.
  • If your wok is small, you will have to divide your chicken into 2 pieces.
  • If your wok is large enough to hold all the chicken, then place 4 tablespoons oil in it, heat to smoking point, add all of the chicken and onions to it, stir fry and brown chicken on all sides with wok uncovered.
  • This will take about 10 minutes.
  • At the end of this period, cover wok and cook chicken a further 10 minutes.
  • Uncover wok, add clery, mushrooms, water chestnuts, stir.
  • Cover wok and cook ingredients 3 minutes, uncovering wok, once to give things a stir.
  • Mix starch solution up well, add to wok, stir everything up thoroughly.