Chicken Almond Soo Guy - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
    8 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
    2 teaspoons ginger
    2 teaspoons salt
    4 teaspoons garlic salt
    10 tablespoons peanut oil
    1 cup blanched almond
    1 bunch fresh parsley
    1 bunch fresh parsley sprig
    3 lemon slices
    12 ounces low fat sweet and sour plum sauce
    1/2 cup toasted almond
    oil (for frying)
    Frying Dough
    4 eggs
    1/2 cup cold water
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    2 teaspoons salt
    2 teaspoons cornstarch
    1 teaspoon sugar
Preparation
    Cut chicken breasts into thin strips.
    Mix soy sauce, ginger, salt and garlic salt.
    Marinate chicken strips in the soy mixture for 30 minutes.
    In a frying pan or a wok, heat peanut oil to 375\u00b0F .
    Fry first amount of (blanched) almonds until golden.
    Drain well and reduce almonds to a powder.
    Prepare frying dough:
    Using a fork, beat eggs.
    Still using a fork, beat in cold water, flour, salt, cornstarch and sugar.
    Dough will be a little lumpy.
    Set aside for 10 minutes.
    Add powdered almonds to dough mixture.
    Dip marinated chicken strips into frying dough/almonds mixture.
    Drain lightly and fry into very hot oil, until golden brown.
    Arrange chicken strips onto a serving plate garnished with fresh parsley sprigs, lemon slices and toasted almonds.
    Serve, coated with plum sauce.

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