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Chinese Cashew Chicken
Recipe video above. The soft, creamy crunch of cashews is a perfect addition to this saucy chicken stir fry! Truly stacks up to your favourite take out - read the glowing reviews! If using breast, consider tenderising it the Chinese way ("Velveting Chicken")
Prep
15 min
Cook
6 min
Total
21 min
Serves
4
Instructions
- 01
Sauce: Mix cornflour and soy sauce until there's no lumps. Then add remaining Sauce ingredients and mix.
- 02
Marinate: Transfer 2 tbsp Sauce to chicken, mix to coat. Set aside for 10 minutes+.
- 03
Cook: Heat oil over high heat in a wok or heavy based skillet. Add the garlic and onion, cook for 1 minute.
- 04
Add chicken and cook for 2 minutes. Add capsicum and cook for 1 minute.
- 05
Add Sauce and water. Bring to simmer and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until Sauce thickens.
- 06
Stir through cashews, remove from stove. Serve immediately with rice - or for a low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice!
Nutrition
per serving · 1 serving
- Calories
- 559
- Protein
- 26g
- Carbs
- 21g
- Fat
- 41g
- Fiber
- 1g
- Sugar
- 6g
- Sat. fat
- 9g
- Sodium
- 1324mg
- Cholesterol
- 122mg
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