Chinese: Chinese Cashew Chicken 2
- 3 each chicken breasts boned and skinned
- 1/2 pound snow pea pods
- 1/2 pound mushrooms
- 4 each scallions, spring or green onions
- 2 cups bamboo shoots drained
- 1 cup chicken broth or bouillon cube dissolved, in water
- 1/4 cup soy sauce, tamari
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 package cashew nuts
- Slice breasts horizontally into very thin slices and cut into inch squares.
- Place on tray.
- Prepare vegetables, removing ends and strings from pea pods, slicing mushrooms, green part of onions, and the bamboo shoots.
- Add to tray.
- Mix soy sauce, cornstarch, sugar, and salt.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in skillet over moderate heat, add all the nuts, and cook 1 minute shaking the pan, toasting the nuts lightly.
- Remove and reserve.
- Pour remaining oil in pan, fry chicken quickly, turning often until it looks opaque.
- Lower heat to low.
- Add pea pods, mushrooms, and broth.
- Cover and cook slowly for 2 minutes.
- Remove cover, add soy sauce mixture, bamboo shoots, and cook until thickened, stirring constantly.
- Simmer uncovered a bit more and add green onions and nuts and serve immediately.
chicken breasts, snow, mushrooms, scallions, bamboo shoots, chicken broth, soy sauce, cornstarch, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, nuts
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chinese-chinese-cashew-chicken--34370 (may not work)