Cashew Chicken
photo by Chef Nichol
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast, cubed
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 -4 cups oil, for deep-frying
- 1⁄2 cup cashews
- 10 whole dried red chilies
- 1 green onion, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1⁄2 onion, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 1 (6 ounce) can water chestnuts
-
Sauce
- 1⁄4 cup chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons water
directions
- Combine sauce ingredients and set aside.
- Mix chicken with cornstarch.
- Heat oil.
- Deep-fry chicken until color changes.
- Drain.
- Remove.
- Deep-fry cashews in large strainer until light brown (about 30 seconds).
- Drain, Remove.
- Reheat 2 T.oil in wok.
- Fry chilies until dark brown.
- Add scallion and garlic.
- Stir-fry 30 seconds.
- Add onion, stir-fry 1 minute.
- Add green pepper, stir-fry 30 seconds more.
- Remove chilies.
- Pour in sauce, bring to a boil.
- Add chicken and nuts.
- Mix until chicken and nuts are glazed.
- Removed to serving platter.
- Serve over rice.
- *Note- you may also just stir-fry the chicken rather than deep-fry, if you choose. It still tastes wonderful!*.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef Nichol
Omaha, NE
My name is Nichol and I am 31 years old. I live in Hastings, NE with my wonderful 9 month old daughter Molly, husband David, and our cat Salem. I absolutely love to cook and come up with new recipes. I also like to cook with ingredients that my husband claims he doesn't like and then when he eats a dish I created, he LOVES it!!
We hope to open our own restaurant in the next couple of years! For now I run my own catering business called Noshes by Nichol and I just thoroughly enjoy seeing the looks on peoples faces when they taste what I have created! It's the simple things in life for me and I am grateful for them every single day!
Oh and GGGOOO BBBIIIGGG RRREEEDDD! We are huge Husker fans and I always make a huge spread for game days!
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