Cashew Chicken
Posted by Divine Recipes on August 14, 2007
3 chicken breasts, boned and skinned
1/2 lb. chinese pea pods
1/2 lb. mushrooms
4 green onions
2 cups bamboo shoots, drained
1 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup soy sauce
2tb cornstarch
1/2 ts sugar
1/2 ts salt
4 tb salad oil
1 pack cashew nuts (about 4oz)
Slice chicken 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. Add 1tb of oil in skillet over moderate heat, add all the nuts and cook 1 min shaking the pan. 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 mins. 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.
