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

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular 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 can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stir-fried chicken and cashew nuts:
  1. Get 200-300 grams Chicken cut to pieces
  2. Take 1/2 Cup Cashew nuts
  3. Get 1 Small Onion
  4. Get 2 cloves garlic
  5. Get 3-4 Large dried chillies (Optional)
  6. Take 1-2 small bell peppers or 1-2 red chillies
  7. Prepare 6-7 Snow pea (mangetout)
  8. Get 2 Tbsp soy sauce (1 for marinating the chicken 1 for stir-fry)
  9. Get 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
  10. Prepare 1 Tsp Maggi sauce
  11. Make ready 1 Tbsp sugar
  12. Prepare 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. Take 1 Tbsp water

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. This spicy, easy stir-fry is all about the sticky, slightly sweet sauce that coats the chicken and cashews.

Instructions 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.

Continue until the chicken is lightly browned but not quite entirely cooked through. Add the vegetables: Swirl the remaining tablespoon of oil into the wok down the side. 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. The is not a criticism of stir-fry recipes.

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