Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Crisp fried chicken with stir-fried vegetables and cashew nuts. Stir in the spring onions and cashew nuts, season, to taste, with sea salt and ground white pepper and transfer to a serving dish. Stir-Fried Chicken With Cashew Nuts Recipe.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts:
- Take 200-300 grams Chicken cut to pieces
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Cashew nuts
- Take 1 Small Onion
- Take 2 cloves garlic
- Prepare 3-4 Large dried chillies (Optional)
- Get 1-2 small bell peppers or 1-2 red chillies
- Take 6-7 Snow pea (mangetout)
- Prepare 2 Tbsp soy sauce (1 for marinating the chicken 1 for stir-fry)
- Make ready 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
- Take 1 Tsp Maggi sauce
- Prepare 1 Tbsp sugar
- Get 50 grams Thai chilli paste (Nam Prik Pow)
- Get 2 Tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil or sunflower oil) for stir-fry
- Take 1/2 Tsp Bicarbonate Soda (optional)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp water
This is the Thai take on a dish that can probably be found at any Asian hole-in-the-wall eatery in the west. The soft, moist chicken meets the warm crunch of freshly toasted cashew nuts or, as they are called in Thai, the 'mangoes of the high forests of India'. Chicken with cashew nuts is one of my all-time favorites, as it is for my husband. It's a simple dish that's become a staple for the Thais and the farangs (Gai=chicken, Pad=stir fry, Med Ma Muang Him Ma Paan=cashew nut) Please, leave the name alone out of respect.
Instructions to make Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts:
- (This is optional) If you want your chicken to be soft as Chinese restaurant, you can follow this step. Marinate your chicken with bicarbonate soda for 15 minutes then rinse them thoroughly with cold water. Dry them with kitchen paper and leave them aside.
- Marinate chicken with Soy sauce around 5 minutes.
- Cut and prepare garlic, snow peas (mangetout), Onion (to chunks), bell pepper (Button), Spring Onion and Large Dry Chilli
- Fry cashew nuts until golden and leave them aside
- In small bowl, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, Maggi sauce, Sugar, Thai chilli paste (Nam Prik pow) and water. Mix them together and leave them aside
- Heat up the pan, add a little oil in and cook the chicken until they are cooked and soft. Leave them aside.
- Use the new pan, heat up the pan with 1 Tbsp of cooking oil. Fry large dry chilli until the colour's changed and smell nice. Take them out the pan and leave them aside. Keep the old oil.
- Add the rest of cooking oil to the same pan, heat it up and add garlic in. Then add onion stir-fry them. Then add Bell peppers then Snow peas to stir-fry.
- Add back fried large dry chillies and cooked chicken. Stir-fry them.
- Add the mixed sauce to the pan. Then coat everything with the sauce. Add back cashew nuts.
- Add Spring onion, stir-fry then turn off the heat.
- It's ready to be served.
This spicy, easy stir-fry is all about the sticky, slightly sweet sauce that coats the chicken and cashews. But, like all good stirfries, this can be catered to your taste—add in whatever mix-ins you have in your fridge or pantry. Featured in: Make This Cashew Chicken Stir Fry Your Leftovers Hero. This cashew chicken with tender stir-fried chicken and roasted cashews in garlic sauce tastes just like take-out, only better. I always order cashew nut chicken from my local Thai restaurant.
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