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Parchment wrapped chicken

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Ingredients:
2 Whole chicken breasts
Skinned and boned
3 tbspDark soy sauce
1 tspGinger juice*
1/4 tspSugar
Boiling Water
1/2 lbsFresh bean sprouts
6 Green onions with tops, cut
Into 2 inch lengths and
Slivered
1/3 cupChopped walnuts
8 8 inch squares of parchment
Paper
Procedures:
1Paper cut eight 8 inch squares of parchment paper.
2Ingredients cut chicken into thin, narrow strips, about 3 inches long.
3Combine soy sauce, ginger juice and sugar in large bowl; stir in chicken, let stand 30 minutes.
4Meanwhile, pour boiling water over bean sprouts; let stand one minute.
5Drain; cool under cold water and drain well.
6Thoroughly toss chicken mixture with bean sprouts, green onions and walnuts.
7Place about ?cupful of chicken mixture in center of each parchment square.
8Fold bottom point of parchment over filling; crease just below filling and fold point over and under filling.
9Fold side points over filling, overlapping slightly.
10Crease paper to hold folds.
11Fold remaining corner down so point extends below bottom of bundle; tuck this point between folded sides.
12Crease paper to hold folds.
13Repeat with remaining parchment squares.
14(ends up looking like small envelope, with flap tucked under bundle) place bundles seam side down, in single layer on steamer rack.
15Set rack in large pot or wok of boiling water.
16(do not let water level reach the bundles) cover and steam about 7 minutes or until chicken is tender.
17Serve immediately *peel fresh ginger root, then squeeze through garlic press.
18== courtesy of dale & gail shipp, columbia md.
19== ...
20Shipwrecked on hesperus in maryland.
2115:35:39 10 feb 94 --- blue wave/max v2.12 *