Cashew Chicken
photo by stormylee
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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COOKING SAUCE
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
- 3 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 4 teaspoons dry sherry
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
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MARINADE
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
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Chicken
- 2 chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- 6 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 cup roasted cashews
- 2 medium bell peppers, cut into 1 inch suares (1 green/1 red if you like)
- 2 medium onions, cut into 8 wedges,layers separated
- 1⁄2 lb snow peas, trimmed and strings removed
- 1⁄2 lb fresh mushrooms, sliced (optional)
- 1 can baby corn (optional)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- hot cooked rice
directions
- make cooking sauce and place on side.
- prepare marinade, add chicken, stir to coat.
- heat wok over medium high heat.
- When wok is hot, add 3 tblsp oil.
- when oil is hot, add cashews and stir fry until brown-- BE CAREFUL, CASHEWS COOK QUICKLY, about 1/2 minute.
- Remove cashews with slotted spoon and set aside.
- Add chicken mixture and stir fry until meat is no longer pink in center-- about 3/5 minutes.
- remove from wok and set aside.
- Pour remaining oil into wok.
- When oil is hot, add bell peppers, onion, and ginger, and stir fry until pepper is tender crisp to bite-- about 4 minutes.
- Add pea pods and mushrooms, stir fry about 1 minute.
- Add baby corn, stir fry 1/2 minute.
- Return chicken to wok.
- Stir cooking sauce and pour into wok.
- Stir until sauce boils and thickens.
- Stir in cashews.
- Serve over rice.
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Reviews
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Absolutely delicious! I made this pretty much as written except: I didn't have white wine vinegar and used rice vinegar instead, and I used fresh ginger in place of the ground ginger. Oh, I also used 5 chicken breast HALVES. The sauce was wonderful and my family of five wiped out this meal. Thanks a lot for the recipe, I'll definitely be making this again.
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Wow - wonderful recipe - this is an "again please recipe". I marinaded the chicken in the corn starch/soy for about 3 hours. Like the other 2 reviewers I used rice vinegar. Excellent cooking sauce! I omitted the corn starch from it . I left the chicken in the wok when I added the onions & mushrooms finally added the peppers. I did not have any snow peas (weather too miserable to go out) but they would add extra color & flavor. Used yellow, red & green peppers. Thanks BoxO'Wine for a great recipe
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Excellent recipe. I,too, used rice vinegar and fresh ginger and upped the tabasco a bit. For the cashews, I roasted them in a 350 oven for about 10 minutes therefore eliminating the need to stir fry them. Served this with beef and broccoli and fried rice. Better than takeout, but lots of dishes ;-). Thanks BoxO'Wine.
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Tweaks
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This was the best cashew chicken I ever made (and I've made a few in my day!). I switched up the veggies a bit (in a hurry) and used a bag of frozen japanese veggies and a cup of frozen pea pods in place of all the fresh veggies and the baby corn. One person who critiqued the recipe said they used fresh ginger, which is really what I think they are looking for in the recipe, but I used 1/4 tsp of dried ground ginger mixed in the cooking sauce instead. I didn't take the chicken out of the pan before I added veggies (too much putzing. . . I just pushed it to the side). Only other thing is I would add a bit more tobasco for a little more kick - but I had to keep it tame for the kids. this was quick, easy and definitely a keep at our house!
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Absolutely delicious! I made this pretty much as written except: I didn't have white wine vinegar and used rice vinegar instead, and I used fresh ginger in place of the ground ginger. Oh, I also used 5 chicken breast HALVES. The sauce was wonderful and my family of five wiped out this meal. Thanks a lot for the recipe, I'll definitely be making this again.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
BoxOWine
United States
Update: My mother, BoxO'Wine passed away on April 23, 2009 after a 2 year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was a wonderful cook and is greatly missed. I am the DD that she has mentioned here quite frequently and have decided to continue her account. I also use RecipeZaar quite frequently as I learned about it from her. I strive to make her recipes; however, they will never be the same. I am also leaving all her own biographical information in here that she had.
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