Chinese Cashew Chicken Recipe
A quick and easy stir fry recipe on the table in just 15 minutes.
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The slight crunchiness you get from the onions and peppers mixed with the spicy aroma of the chillies and the delicious sauce made from a few simple things, all go to make something quite special.
You certainly don't want any of those jars of ready-made sauces they sell in supermarkets, claiming to be 'authentic' recipes.
With a little bit of effort, when you've done it from scratch, you'll be converted to making your own sauces.
Once you've got a stock of a few basic ingredients there's no end to what you can make. Even if this isn't an authentic Chinese or Cantonese recipe; who cares as long as it tastes good!
Recipe Top Tip!
A while back in my Chinese chicken curry recipe, which by the way, really does taste just like the takeaway. I wrote about how the chicken you get in a Chinese restaurant always seems to be so tender
When chicken is stir-fried it can become a little tough if you're not careful.
Anyway, a nice lady at the Chinese supermarket told me how they do it. 😉
Find out how to make chicken really tender.
At first, you think it's a little odd but I gave it a go (in for a penny, in for a pound and all that) and now I always marinate my chicken this way before stir-frying.
The result is amazing and you should give it a go.
For the sauce, you will need
- 2 teaspoons of Maggi liquid seasoning (available in any good supermarket)
- 2 tablespoons Ketjap Manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) also available in any good supermarket
- ½ a teaspoon of fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar - or to taste
- 4 tablespoons water
- a pinch of white pepper
- 2 teaspoons of cornflour
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Equipment
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Chicken with Cashews Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ a tablespoon of soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons of sesame oil - or vegetable oil
- 1 or 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 fat garlic cloves - very finely chopped
- 1 large onion - peeled and cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 small green bell pepper - cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 small red bell pepper - cut into bite-size pieces
- 4 or 6 dried red chillies - seeded and cut into small pieces
- a big handful of roasted and salted cashew nuts
- 3 spring onions (scallions) - sliced
- 2 teaspoons of Maggi seasoning
- 2 tablespoons Ketjap Manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
- ½ a teaspoon of fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar - or to taste
- 4 tablespoons water
- a pinch of white pepper
- 2 teaspoons of cornflour
Instructions
- Mix together the sauce ingredients in a small bowl or cup and set aside.
- When you're ready to cook, heat up your wok till it's nice and hot and add a tiny amount of oil (because you've already got some oil stirred through the chicken) and stir-fry the chicken until it's almost cooked. Remove and set aside.
- Wipe the wok clean and add a tablespoon or two of oil. Add the garlic, onion, and peppers when it's heated up nicely. Stir-fry for a few minutes and then throw in the chillies.
- By now it will all smell delicious, put the chicken back in with the cashew nuts.
- Stir-fry the chicken for just a minute. Stir the sauce mixture as the sugar will have sunk to the bottom.
- Pour in the sauce stirring all the while. Soon as the chicken is cooked, throw in the spring onion and serve immediately with some rice.
I haven't tried doing my chicken like this yet, but am planning on it soon! Nice recipe Jan, I do love cashews.
ReplyDeleteThis looks and sounds amazing. I'll be trying this for sure. Hope I can find some of the ingredients here!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like restaurant food - wonderful Jan! Full of goodness too. Lucie x
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to trying this. How long should you marinate the chicken for?
ReplyDeleteHi Anon - I'll update this post as I should have said how long. About 20 minutes will be fine.
ReplyDeleteHi Jan - we had this tonight. Delish. We had to tweek it slightly as hubby is Gluten-Free. Tried the chicken a different way - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5140/chicken-stirfry-in-4-easy-steps
ReplyDeleteHi Jan - We had this tonight. Delish. I had to tweek it slightly as hubby is gluen-free. Cooked the chicken like this - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5140/chicken-stirfry-in-4-easy-steps.
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