Sweet and sour peanuts

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
Half a small pineapple
1 Green pepper; de-seeded and
; halved
1 tablespoon Cornflour
2 teaspoons Soy sauce
5 tablespoons Cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Clear honey
3 tablespoons Sunflower oil
1 large Onion; sliced thinly
1 Clove garlic; chopped finely
125 grams Unsalted peanuts; shelled (4oz)
1 225 gram can bamboo shoots; drained and sliced
; thinly (8oz)
1 230 gram can water chestnuts; drained and sliced
; thinly (8oz)

Directions

Cut the skin from the pineapple. Cut the flesh into slices, stamp out the cores with an apple corer or cut them out with a knife.

Cut the flesh into 2cm (¾ inch) dice. Cut the pepper into 2cm (¾ inch) squares.

Put the cornflour into a bowl and gradually mix in the soy sauce, vinegar and honey.

Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan on a low heat. Put in the pepper, onion and garlic and stir-fry them for 2 minutes.

Put in the peanuts, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts and stir-fry for 2 minutes more. Mix in the pineapple.

Stir the cornflour mixture. Pour it into the pan.

Simmer, stirring, until the mixture thickens to a small amount of glossy sauce.

Take the pan from the heat and serve as soon as possible.

NOTES : This is a dish with a definite Chinese character. Assemble all the ingredients before you start to cook and you will find it easy and very quick to make. Serve this with plain rice.

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Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by Alan Hewitt <alan@...> on Oct 19, 1998

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