Thai Food

is another favorite dish for both foreigners who had and never had traveled to Thailand. It is also another Thai recipe that is fairly easy to do, has a delicious delicate taste for most foreigners, and last but not least it is easy to find the raw materials and various ingredients no matter what country you live in. In addition, the stir fried chicken with cashew nuts is a great alternative dish for the cooks that need to show their Thai cooking skill to Western, Chinese, Indian or Japanese, etc to get to know one of the delicious Thai food. Besides green curry (Kaeng Kieow Waan), Pad Thai and Tom Yum Kung that most people already know about. So let’s try to make the stir fried chicken with cashew nuts. This will be sure to be a recipe that will stick in your guests mind once again.

Ingredients:
300 grams (10 ounces) chicken breast or thigh
½ cup cashew nuts (can add more, depends on your preference)
½ cup water chestnuts (optional, depends on your preference)
½ cup straw mushrooms, the young unopened mushroom only (optional, depends on your preference)
½ medium-sized onion
3 medium-sized cloves garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
5 large dried chili, cut into 1.5 cm pieces
2 green onions
¼ cup purpose flour
1 Tbsp chili oil
2 Tbsp oyster sauce
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp soy sauce
A little bit of black soy sauce (2-3 drops)
½ -1 Tbsp fish sauce
2 tsp sesame oil
3 Tbsp chicken broth (or can use plain water)
2 cups vegetable oil for frying

Preparation:
1. Wash the chicken thoroughly. Cut off all the skin (will use the meat only), then cut the chicken into the bite-sized pieces, and set aside.

2. Wash the straw mushrooms with water thoroughly. Then prepare them by cutting in half. In case you are using water chestnuts; Peel their skin off and wash them with water thoroughly. Then cut in half or quarters, depends on the sizes.

3. Cut off the green onion root and peel off the onion skin, then rinse them thoroughly. Chop the onion into dice pieces, and cut the green onions into pieces approximately 1 inch long. Set them aside.

4. Add water into the pot and place it over medium heat. When water is boiling, put the water chestnuts in to boil until done (about 3-5 minutes). When they are done, set them aside to drain. (If using canned and cooked water chestnuts or not putting any in this dish please skip this step).

5. Add a little bit of soy sauce to the chicken, and let it sit for a few minutes until soy sauce permeates the chicken. Then take the chicken and mix with the all purpose flour to lightly coat, not too thick.

6. Heat oil in the pan over medium heat. When the oil is hot, then start to fry the prepared chicken. Fry until the chicken turns light brown and crispy. Then take the chicken out and put it on the paper towel to absorb any extra oil. Reduce the heat down to low heat. Use the same pan to fry the cashew nuts. Fry until the nuts turn light brown and then scoop them up, set aside (if using high heat you will burn the cashew nuts and the inside will remain uncooked). Last, put the prepared dried chili to fry. Fry the chili for a few minutes then scoop them out, try not to burn the chili.

7. Mix the seasoning ingredients before stir frying, it will be easy and convenient when it’s time to cook without having to stir and then season and then stir…(some people may wait to season while cooking and that is okay to do too). Start by finding a small bowl and then adding chili oil, oyster sauce, sugar, soy sauce, black soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, and chicken broth together and stir. (Taste to the flavor as you like).

8. Use the same pan, but take some of the oil out and use only about 2 Tbsp of the remaining oil. Place the pan on the burner on medium heat. When the oil is hot, add garlic to fry until fragrant and yellow. Then add onion to fry until it starts to turn clear. Pour the fried chicken and the prepared mushrooms into it. Follow with the mixed seasoning ingredients. Stir well until the seasoning sauce coats the chicken evenly. Then follow by putting the cooked water chestnuts in and stir. Finally, add the fried cashew nuts, fried chili and green onion. Stir well for another 1-2 minutes and then turn off the heat. Scoop stir fried to the plate and serve with steamed rice.

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