Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts
Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts

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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-fry for a minute, keeping the ingredients moving to avoid burning, until the pepper is soft.

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To begin with this recipe, we must 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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts:
  1. Make ready 200-300 grams Chicken cut to pieces
  2. Make ready 1/2 Cup Cashew nuts
  3. Make ready 1 Small Onion
  4. Take 2 cloves garlic
  5. Prepare 3-4 Large dried chillies (Optional)
  6. Get 1-2 small bell peppers or 1-2 red chillies
  7. Make ready 6-7 Snow pea (mangetout)
  8. Get 2 Tbsp soy sauce (1 for marinating the chicken 1 for stir-fry)
  9. Take 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
  10. Get 1 Tsp Maggi sauce
  11. Make ready 1 Tbsp sugar
  12. Make ready 50 grams Thai chilli paste (Nam Prik Pow)
  13. Get 2 Tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil or sunflower oil) for stir-fry
  14. Take 1/2 Tsp Bicarbonate Soda (optional)
  15. 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.

Steps to make Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts:
  1. (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.
  2. Marinate chicken with Soy sauce around 5 minutes.
  3. Cut and prepare garlic, snow peas (mangetout), Onion (to chunks), bell pepper (Button), Spring Onion and Large Dry Chilli
  4. Fry cashew nuts until golden and leave them aside
  5. 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
  6. Heat up the pan, add a little oil in and cook the chicken until they are cooked and soft. Leave them aside.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Add back fried large dry chillies and cooked chicken. Stir-fry them.
  10. Add the mixed sauce to the pan. Then coat everything with the sauce. Add back cashew nuts.
  11. Add Spring onion, stir-fry then turn off the heat.
  12. It's ready to be served.

In a medium bowl, season the chicken with salt, pepper, and cornstarch. 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. The is not a criticism of stir-fry recipes.

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