This is a delicious Chinese favorite. Please enjoy it.

Ingredients:

2 cups water

1 cup walnuts

1/4 teaspoon sugar

2 whole (boneless) chicken breasts

1 egg white

2 teaspoons corn starch

1 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon white pepper

2 ounces CHINESE pea pods

2 stalks celery

2 green onions (with tops)

2 tablespoons oyster sauce

1 tablespoon corn starch

1 tablespoon water

1 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup chicken broth

1 tablespoon diced pimento


Cooking Instructions:

1. Heat 2 cups water to boiling
    Add walnuts
    Heat to boiling
    Boil for 1 minute
    Drain
    Rinse under cold water
    Remove skin from walnuts
    Sprinkle walnuts with sugar

2. Cut chicken into 3/4 inch pieces
   
3. Mix egg white, 2 teaspoons cornstarch, salt, and white pepper in medium bowl
    Cover and refridgerate for 20 minutes

4. Remove strings from pea pods
    Cut large pea pods into 3 pieces
    Place pea pods in boiling water
    Boil for 30 seconds
    Drain
    Immediately rinse in cold water

5. Cut celery stalks diagonally, into 1/4 inch slices
     Cut green onions, diaganolly, into 1 inch pieces

6. Mix oyster sauce 1 tablespoon corn starch and 1 tablespoon water

7. Heat vegetable oil in a wok to 350 degrees.
     Add walnuts
     Fry until walnuts are light brown
     Remove walnuts from oil (using slotted spoon)
     Drain on paper towels

8. Heat vegetable oil, in wok to 350 degrees
    Add chicken
    Fry until chicken turns white (stirring to separate pieces)
    Remove chicken from oil (using slotted spoon)
    Drain on paper towels

9. Pour oil from wok - reserving 2 tablespoons
    rinse wok for next step

10. Heat wok until very hot
      Add 2 tablespoons reserved vegetable oil
      Tilt wok to coat side

11. Add celery
      Stir-fry 1 minute
      Add broth
      Heat to boiling
      Cover and simmer 1 minute
 
12. Add chicken
      Add pea pods
      Add green onions
      Add pimento
      Heat to boiling
      Stir in corn starch mixture
      Cook and stir until mixture thickens

13. Stir in walnuts



Makes 4 servings


Serving suggestions: Best with fresh long grain rice