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Hot pepper chicken

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Ingredients:
2 Whole chicken breasts
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4 Chicken breast halves
Salt
Corn starch
4 Fresh hot peppers
1 tbspBrown sugar
1 tbspCider vinegar
2 tbspSoya sauce
1 tbspWine
1/2 cupWater
1 cupPeanuts
2 tbspOil
Procedures:
1Cut chicken meat in sheets away from breast bone, slice into squares of 1x1".
2Dredge in a mixture of corn starch and salt on a piece of wax paper.
3Allow pieces to dry individually on wax paper about 20 minutes.
4Remove seeds from fresh peppers.
5Coarsely cut into strips.
6Reserve.
7Mix sugar, vinegar, soya sauce, wine together in a small bowl.
8Reserve.
9Heat oil in wok until smoking, add dredged chicken, stir fry on all sides.
10If oil is hot enough for chicken, pieces will not stick to wok.
11Add sugar and vinegar reserve, hot peppers.
12Place cover over wok.
13Add ?cup water, cook over medium heat 5 minutes.
14Self gravy should form in the bottom of wok.
15Stir chicken in gravy so it will cook in gravy.
16Gravy should become gelatinous after 5 minutes of cooking.
17If it becomes too thick, thin gravy out with small amounts of water.
18Sprinle in 1 cup of peanuts, mix thoroughly.
19Note: canned hot peppers are too soft to be used for this dish.
20If desired, dried cayenne peppers can be reconstituted for use.
21If you are fond of this dish, it is well to freeze your own hot peppers, in season