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Thai Cashew Chicken:  This recipe (made correctly) produces a delightful meal for 2-4 people, thin slices of lean chicken dipped in Tempura flour, flash fried to perfection, toasted cashew nuts, crispy stir fry vegetables and a lightly sweet and spicy sauce.

Chicken and Cashews are originally a Chinese recipe combination adopted by the Thais some 200 years ago and of course Thais have added their spicy twist to Chicken and cashew nuts

Here’s a minature taster from the full video tutorial

Cashew Chicken Recipe

With Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce
(Pat Gai Mad Mamuang Himaphan Cap Pik Waan)

Ingredients:

500g lean chicken breast
1 cup fresh cashew nuts
½ cup sliced bell peppers (mixed colours)
½ medium onion
3 spring onions (scallions)
4 garlic cloves (medium size)
½ cup tempura flour
½ t/s freshly ground black pepper
1 ts chicken stock powder or cube
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs Thai seasoning sauce
2 tbs fish sauce
2/3 cup Thai sweet chilli dipping sauce
2 cups cooking oil

Preparation:

Slice garlic, chunky slices

Slice bell peppers, onion, spring onions as per photo

Slice chicken into thin bite size slices and to give them a light coating of tempura flour
Cooking:

Add 2 Cups oil to a hot wok and bring to a medium heat, cook the cashew nuts until golden brown, and leave to drain

Next place chicken into the oil and fry also until golden brown, remove and leave the chicken with cashew nuts

Carefully remove most of the oil from the wok leaving about 1-2 table spoons and bring back to medium heat before adding garlic, stirring gently until lightly golden brown

Next add onion, bell peppers, plus a little water if required and stir

Next we add fish sauce, oyster sauce, seasoning sauce, sweet chilli dipping sauce and stir for about two minutes

Add chicken with cashew nuts together, stir again, enough to reheat

Lastly add spring onions, stir in 3 or 4 times, add black pepper and serve hot with Jasmine rice
Serving:

Gently pack some freshly cooked jasmine rice into a small bowl, invert onto clean plate, remove bowl to reveal a lovely neat mound of rice; add cashew chicken as required next to it, add a sprig of coriander to finish off
Complimentary dishes?

The above recipe will serve 2-4 portions if you have more guests try adding crispy pork stir fry with vegetables and a side dish of steamed eggs for everyone