Chicken and Peanuts

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts, split
• 14 cup vegetable oil
• 1 (6 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, with liquid (replace liquid with water or chicken stock if you omit the mushrooms)
• 12 cup scallion, chopped or sliced
• 1 garlic clove, minced finely
• 14 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (or cayenne pepper, more or less, depending on taste for heat)
• 14 teaspoon ground ginger
• 14 cup pancake syrup (or maple syrup)
• 14 cup soy sauce
• 14 cup dry sherry or 14 cup dry white wine, of your choice
• 12 cup peanuts (I used just regular, salted, but you could use whatever you want or have on hand)