Chicken With Cashew Nuts

An Asian Favorite

Chicken With Cashew Nuts

Ingredients:

• 2 halves chicken breast sliced thin
• 1 cup cashew nuts
• 1 onion coarsely chopped 
• 3 large dried chilies
• 5 stocks green onion chopped
• 1/2 red bell pepper chopped
• 1/2 green bell pepper chopped
• Soy, Fish and Oyster sauce
• Tamerine sour soup base
• 3 cloves of garlic
• flour
• sugar
• salt
• canola oil

Start by slicing the chicken very thin.

Chicken Coating:

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 2 table spoons of Soy Sauce and a pinch of salt. Refrigerate for 40 minutes.

Making the sauce:

In a bowl, Combine 4 tablespoons of Oyster Sauce, 4 tablespoons of Soy Sauce, 1 tablespoon of Fish Sauce, 2 to 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of sour soup base (Note:  Too much sour soup base will make it very sour), 1/2 to 1 tablespoons of chili paste with Soya bean oil and 2 tablespoons of water or chicken soup stock.  Mix well.

Next, fry the Cashew nuts and sliced dried chilis.  Fry the nuts to a light golden brown and fry the chilis for no more than 1 minute.  If the chilis are overcooked, the will be very bitter.

Coat and cook the chicken:

Coat the chicken with flour and fry till golden brown and cooked through. Remember to slice the chicken very thin.  To help in slicing, it is good to leave it almost frozen. This way you can hold it and still get a nice thin slice about 1/8″ thick.

Watch Ning prepare Chicken With Cashew Nuts

In a hot wok with about 2 tablespoons of canola oil fry the chopped garlic, onion and bell peppers.  Only cook less than an minute and add the rest of the ingredients except the chopped green onion. Stir well and then add the green onion cooking only about 5 SECONDS longer.

The finished dish

Chicken With Cashew Nuts

Serve with rice and Enjoy!