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Chapter 3
Cooking for Two Recipes (One-dish meals for two)

3. Heat up oil in a non-stick pan and sauté the ginger. Turn to medium heat,
add chicken pieces and stir-fry briefly, followed with the Chinese black
mushrooms and chestnuts.

4. Add in water, then cover and let it simmer for 10 minutes or until the chicken
pieces are thoroughly cooked. Add in the sugar snap peas and stir-fry
together.
5. When the sugar snap peas are cooked, add in the thickener and bring it to
the boil.
6. Skim off the fat and oil, and remove the chicken skin before serving.

NOTES FOR SPECIAL DIETS NUTRITION / PREPARATION TIPS
• Diabetic Diet: Exclude sugar 1. Remove the skin prior to eating.
from the marinades and skip
the thickener. Exchange 2 2. Can cook all ingredients together
servings of carbohydrates for with rice in a rice cooker instead
each serving of this dish. of a non-stick pan. Simply skin the
• Low-Fat / Low-Cholesterol chicken before cooking, and skip
Diet: Remove the chicken fat the thickener, vegetable oil and
and skin prior to cooking.
Reduce the amount of water.
vegetable oil to ¾ tsp. 3. Prepare a serving of boiled
• Low-Salt Diet: Exclude salt vegetables for a balanced meal as
from the marinades and this dish mainly contains meat.
thickener, and halve the
amount of dark soy sauce.
EACH SERVING PROVIDES:

Meat, fish,
egg & alternatives:
3 taels
Vegetables:
¾ serving
Grains:
1½ servings

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