Chicken Cashew Nuts

Chicken Cashew Nuts

Sharing my Daughters fav food with you. Don’t know if this is a Thai

dish or a Chinese one.

I just sort of concocted it in the kitchen one evening but it has a

beautiful mild flavor and it is my go to dish when entertaining as it

always gets some of the best reviews on my table. Serve it with Garlic

Rice the recipe to which you can find here and I am penning the recipe

to the chicken Cashew gravy for my readers below.

 

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup raw cashew nuts

2 chicken Knorr cubes

½ KG dressed chicken fillets cut in longish strips

1 can of mushrooms chopped

10 green chilies thinly cut in longish strips

1 stem of green onions thinly cut in longish strips

White pepper powder to taste

Salt to taste

Oyster Sauce 4 tbsp.

 

Method:

Heat about ½ cup of cooking oil in a wok and add the cashew nuts to it. Keep the heat low as they turn brown very

quickly. When toasted to a warm light gold remove from the pan onto a paper towel to garnish the dish in the end.

Now add the chicken strips to the oil. Lightly sauté keeping in mind that this is a very delicately flavored dish and

you don’t want to overcook the chicken as that will make it stringy.

As soon as the chicken loses its pink tinge and starts turning white add the chilies and the mushrooms to it and fry

together for about two minutes. Add 1 and ½ cups of water to the wok now and quickly add the chicken cubes. Now

add a little more than ¼ tsp of salt and the same amount of white pepper to the wok.

Stir and ensure the cubes have dissolved and then add the Oyster Sauce.

Taste the dish to see if you need a little more salt and pepper. Add the green onions and just 2 tsp of corn flour

dissolved in water to slightly thicken the gravy.

Garnish with the fried cashews and serve immediately.