Boo Loo Gai (Pineapple Chicken)

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Wash and singe the young chicken, then cut off all the flesh.
  2. Slice the chicken meat.
  3. Heat a tablespoon of sweet lard in a pan.
  4. Fry the chicken slices, taking care not to let them burn.
  5. Add a tablespoon of syou and a can of preserved pineapple to the pan.
  6. Cook slowly for fifteen minutes.
  7. Thicken the pineapple juice with a teaspoon of Quong Sang Chong.
  8. Serve hot with rice.

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