Abalone Dish

• 1 lb chicken meat cut small
• 1 garlic, smashed
• 1 small ginger crushed
• 1/2 lb water chestnut
• 1 small shiitake, soaked in water
• 1/4 lb Chinese peas
• 2 takenoko
• 1 can abalone cut in slices. save juice of abalone
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 2 Tbsp shoyu
• Ajinomoto

Heat oil in pan adding the crushed ginger and garlic. Take out garlic and ginger and add chicken meat. Add shiitake soaked in water and abalone juice when chicken is cooked. Add sliced takenoko, sliced shiitake, water chestnut and salt and cook (mix the salt, flour sugar shoyu, aji just about the time you add because it will harden). Lastly add abalone and add the mixed seasoning and the Chinese and ajinomoto.

Herbert A Segawa, Class of 1947