Oriental Chicken With Cashews Food

CHINESE CASHEW CHICKEN

Steps:

• Sauce: Mix cornflour and soy sauce until there's no lumps. Then add remaining Sauce ingredients and mix.
• Marinate: Transfer 2 tbsp Sauce to chicken, mix to coat. Set aside for 10 minutes+.
• Cook: Heat oil over high heat in a wok or heavy based skillet. Add the garlic and onion, cook for 1 minute.
• Add chicken and cook for 2 minutes. Add capsicum and cook for 1 minute.
• Add Sauce and water. Bring to simmer and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until Sauce thickens.
• Stir through cashews, remove from stove. Serve immediately with rice - or for a low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice!

ASIAN CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS

Steps:

• In a 2 1/2-quart microwave-safe dish with a lid, stir together soy sauce, lime juice, and cornstarch; season with pepper. Add bell pepper, scallions, garlic, ginger, and chicken; toss to coat.
• Cover, and microwave on high 8 to 10 minutes, turning chicken over halfway through. Thinly slice chicken crosswise. Transfer to serving plates, and top with vegetables and juices. Scatter with cashews, and serve with lime wedges, if desired.

"RESTAURANT STYLE" CHINESE CASHEW CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cube chicken into bite size pieces and place in a medium size mixing bowl.
• Add the salt, rice cooking wine, ginger and cornstarch to the chicken cubes, using a fork to mix it in and adding the cornstarch last, mix again. Cover and marinate the chicken for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
• Prepare the sauce ingredients while the chicken is marinating. In a small size mixing bowl, mix together the sauce ingredients and set aside.
• Finely mince the garlic. Wash and slice the green onions on the diagonal into 1-inch pieces, chop the broccoli, slice the celery, carrots, onions and drain the sliced water chestnuts.
• Roast the cashews in a heavy skillet over medium heat, shaking the pan continuously so that the nuts do not burn. Roast for about 5 minutes, or until the cashews are lightly browned. Remove from the pan and let cool completely.
• Heat the wok or large size skillet over medium-high to high heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil. When the oil is hot, add the garlic. Stir-fry until aromatic (about 30 seconds). Add the coated chicken cubes. Stir-fry until they change color (about 5 to 7 minutes) and are cooked through. Remove from the wok or frying pan, keep warm.
• Add 2 tablespoons oil to the same wok or skillet. When the oil is hot, add the stir-frying vegetables. Stir-fry until crunchy-tender (about 5 to 6 minutes), then push up to the sides of the pan. Add the sauce and the chicken. Heat everything through and then fold all together to completely coat with sauce. Serve the chicken and vegetables over prepared rice (Jasmine rice is the best) and the roasted cashews on top as a tasty garnish.
• Makes 4 servings.

CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS

Steps:

• In a bowl add soy sauce, water, cornstarch and oil to form the marinade. Mix well until the cornstarch as dissolved.
• Add to the marinate chopped chicken breasts, mix well cover and marinate for 1 hour in refrigerator.
• Heat oil in Wok until hot, add bamboo shoots and green capsicum. Stir-fry for a few minutes.
• Remove bamboo shoots and green capsicum with slotted spoon or any spoon which drains the oil back into the wok.
• Drain marinate and add chicken to the wok. Quickly toss and turn.
• When chicken is cooked or slightly brown add hoisin sauce. Continue to toss.
• Return vegetables to work.
• Serve over rice and sprinkle the cashew nuts.

LOW-FAT CASHEW CHICKEN (ORIENTAL DISH)

Steps:

• Toss chicken and ginger together in a med. bowl.
• Heat wok or large skillet over med-high heat. Add oil and heat until oil is hot.
• Add chicken and stir-fry 2 minutes.
• Add red pepper and continue to cook and stir 4 more minutes.
• Whisk cornstarch into teriyaki sauce.
• Add to meat mixture, and cook and stir until thick and bubbly.
• Stir in cashews and cook just to heat through.
• Serve with white rice.

CASHEW CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine Catsup, soy sauce, salt,Worcestershire Sauce, sugar, sesame oil, cayenne pepper, and chicken broth and set aside.
• In a bowl, combine cornstarch, sugar, and salt.
• Toss the chicken with cornstarch mixture.
• Heat a wok or frying pan to a high heat and add cooking oil.
• When oil is hot add chicken.
• Add gingeroot, garlic and onion.
• Stir fry mixture until chicken is cooked through and opaque.
• Add bell pepper and carrots, stir fry until tender crisp about 2-3 minutes, then add snow peas.
• Continue to stir fry until tender crisp.
• Add catsup/soysauce mixture to chicken and vegetables and cook until it comes to a boil.
• Add the cashews and serve immediately over a bed of white rice.

SZECHUAN CHICKEN WITH CASHEW NUTS

Steps:

• Dice the chicken breast into ½ inch pieces, dip each piece in egg white, then in cornstarch mixed with a pinch of salt. Fry the chicken pieces in a wok with heated oil until golden brown. Drain the fried pieces of chicken and set aside.
• Fry the cashew nuts in moderately-hot oil until lightly brown and crunchy. Canned or packed cashew nuts will do.
• Slice the long dried peppers into small circumferential pieces, and chop the hot red peppers into finer pieces.
• In a separate small bowl, mix the soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, and sesame oil.
• Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in a wok, add the chopped garlic, all of the sliced red peppers, the spring onions. ~Stir fry for 3 minutes.
• Add the chicken and the cashew nuts.
• Pour the contents of the small bowl containing the mixed sauce - soy sauce, sesame oil, etc. (step number 4). Add the rice wine.
• Add 3 tablespoons of the Hoisin sauce, and stir fry over high heat for another 2 minutes, then serve.

ASIAN BROCCOLI CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS

Steps:

• Heat oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken and garlic; cook 6 to 8 min. or until chicken is done, stirring occasionally. Remove chicken from skillet; cover to keep warm.
• Add broccoli and water to skillet; cover. Cook 3 to 4 min. or until broccoli is crisp-tender, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in chicken and all remaining ingredients except nuts; cook 2 min. or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Top with nuts.

ASIAN CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS AND BROCCOLI

Steps:

• Combine cornstarch, chicken stock, sherry, soy, and tabasco in small bowl.
• Heat oil in hot skillet/wok (med high to high heat). Once oil hot, add chicken and ginger; stir constantly until chicken white; remove ginger, push chicken (as best you can) to side.
• Add broccoli, red pepper, mushrooms, scallions, and garlic to center of wok. Cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Stir in broth mixture mixture to the vegetables and chicken (stir chicken back in). Stir until sauce thickens a bit.
• Sprinkle with nuts, serve over rice if desired, and eat.

CHICKEN WITH CELERY AND CASHEWS

Steps:

• Cut the chicken into thin slices across the grain.
• Heat the oil in a wok swirling it around till its really hot.Add the nuts stirring until they start to brown .
• Add the chicken and stir fry until nearly cooked thru.
• Add the celery and spring onions and continue stirring well in the wok.
• Add the yellow stir fry paste and season with salt and pepper. Toss lightly to cover the chicken and vegetables with the paste.
• Serve at once over plain steamed rice. Garnish with celery leaves.

CASHEW CHICKEN

Steps:

• Put the chicken in a bowl with the egg white, sesame oil, cornflour and 1 tsp salt, and mix well. Chill for 20 mins.
• If you are using oil for velveting the chicken, heat a wok until very hot and then add the oil. When it is very hot, remove the wok from the heat and immediately add the chicken, stirring vigorously to prevent it sticking. After about 2 mins, when the chicken turns white, quickly drain it and all of the oil into a stainless steel colander set over a bowl. Discard the oil. If you are using water instead of oil, do exactly the same but bring the water to the boil in a saucepan before adding the chicken. It will take about 4 mins for the chicken to turn white in the water.
• If you have used a wok, wipe it clean. Heat it until it is very hot, then add the 2 tsp of groundnut oil. Add the cashew nuts and stir-fry for 1 min. Add the rice wine or dry Sherry and soy sauce. Return the chicken to the wok and stir-fry for 2 mins. Scatter over the spring onions and serve immediately.

CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients; set aside., In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry chicken in oil until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm. In the same pan, stir-fry the celery, carrots and onion until crisp-tender. , Stir cornstarch mixture and add to the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add chicken and cashews; heat through. Serve with rice if desired.

ORIENTAL CHICKEN WITH CASHEWS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons butter, margarine or I can't believe it's not butter spread, apple juice, soy sauce and brown sugar; set aside.
• Season chicken with salt and pepper.
• In a 12" skillet, melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter, margarine or spread over medium-high heat and lightly brown chicken, garlic and scallions.
• Add red pepper flakes.
• Add broth.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer covered 20 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.
• Remove chicken to serving platter and keep warm.
• In same skillet, add soy sauce mixture.
• To serve, pour sauce over chicken and sprinkle with cashwes.
• Serve, if desired, with hot cooked rice.