Chicken Breast, Ume and Cucumber Stir Fry
- 400 grams Chicken breast
- 2 Cucumbers
- 2 large Umeboshi
- 1 tbsp Cooking sake
- 1 tsp Chicken soup stock granules
- 2 tsp Katakuriko slurry
- 1/3 tsp Soy sauce
- 1 Sesame oil (for stir-frying)
- Cut the chicken breast into large bite-sized pieces, and coat with katakuriko.
- Cut the cucumber into rolling slices, and pat dry with paper towels to remove the moisture on the surface.
- Combine the cooking sake, chicken soup stock granules and soy sauce.
- Remove the pit from the umeboshi, and chop the umeboshi until it turns into paste.
- Add the umeboshi paste into the seasonings you combined.
- Heat the sesame oil in a frying-pan, and cook the chicken breast until golden brown.
- When it's cooked, remove from the pan and place on a plate.
- Add more sesame oil in the frying-pan, and stir-fry the cucumber.
- When the cucumber has browned, put the chicken breast back in the pan, and mix as if stir-frying.
- Add the plum sauce you made at Step 3 into the pan to coat the meat and cucumber evenly.
- Stir in the katakuriko slurry to thicken the sauce.
chicken breast, cucumbers, sake, chicken soup stock granules, slurry, soy sauce, sesame oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/156829-chicken-breast-ume-and-cucumber-stir-fry (may not work)