Pon Pon Shredded Chicken

--PON PON SHREDDED CHICKEN
-- 3 c Stock (or water)

3 Or 4 chicken breasts *

2 Bean paste sheets (or wide

-carrot or cucumber strips)

-SEASONING

- 2 tb Peanut butter

1 ts Sesame oil

1/2 ts Light soy sauce

1/2 ts Red pepper oil

---SAUCE

--- 1/2 ts Sugar

1/2 ts Sesame oil

1/4 ts Salt

* (to produce approximately 1 1/2 cups of shredded chicken) 1. Mix well, separately, seasoning and sauce ingredients.

2. Bring stock (or salted water) to the boil, immerse chicken

breasts and turn off flame. Soak until cooled, then shred into strips. (Alternatively, for authentic and finer texture, cover breasts with a clean cloth and shred by hitting them with a mallet++hence the sound of ponpon.) 3. Lay bean paste sheets in a suitable flat container, and blanch in

hot water for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove and rinse under cold running water. Drain and cut into finger-sized strips and mix with sauce mixture. 4. Spoon into serving dish, pile shredded chicken on top and pour

seasoning mixture over. From "Champion Recipes of the 1986 Hong Kong Food Festival". Hong Kong Tourist Association, 1986. Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; October 26 1992.