Spicy Chicken Stir Fry Recipe

Spicy Chicken Stir Fry Recipe

This is a quick side dish for any indo chinese meal. But extremely tasty and spicy. Love it to the core. I loved the crunchy that the cashews with all the sauces and the spicy note from the chillies. Normally they use red chilli paste for this, since i didn't have it on hand, i used red chilli powder and mixed it with the sauce and it was perfect.

About this Recipe

Stir frying is a Chinese cooking technique that involves frying ingredients in a small amount of very hot oil while stirring or tossing them in a wok. The technique originated in China and has since spread throughout Asia and the Western world. In Western cooking, it is similar to sautéing.

Cashew chicken is a Chinese-American dish made with chicken, cashews, and either a light brown garlic sauce or a thick sauce made with chicken stock, soy sauce, and oyster sauce.

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This dish goes extremely well with noodles, fried rice or pulav. I served it with jeera rice and garlic naan..Everyone enjoyed it.

Stir-frying originated in China as a cooking method that worked wellon simple brick stoves. A hole over the fire chamber was typical of a stovetop. A round-bottomed wok fit over the lipped hole, efficiently capturing the heat. It only took a small, hot fire to get the wok very hot.

Ingredients for Spicy Cashew Chicken Stir Fry 

Boneless Chicken :
The skin of boneless chicken is typically removed during the process of removing the bones. As a result, it is sometimes thought to be healthier. The skin may help prevent the chicken from drying out during cooking, allowing for more moisture and flavour.

Cornflour:
When paired with all-purpose flour, cornstarch helps prevent gluten development, which makes the flour coating crispier, and absorb moisture (from the frying and the chicken), which also means a crispier coating.

Soy Sauce :
Soy sauce is a traditional Chinese condiment that is widely used in East Asia to add flavour to a variety of cooked foods as well as to aid digestion. Sauce is made from fermented soybean paste, roasted grain, brine, and the mould Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae.

Cashews :
Cashews contain a lot of starch, which will thicken sauces just like flour and potatoes do. The use of cashews over flour, for example, has the advantage of adding a lot of flavour to the sauce.

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Spicy Chicken Stir Fry with Cashews

Spicy Chicken Stir Fry Recipe with step by step pictures. Delicious stir fry with chicken and cashews.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

For Batter:

• ▢ Boneles Chicken - ¼ kg chopped into small piece
• ▢ Cornflour / Cornstarch - ½ cup
• ▢ Egg - 1
• ▢ Salt to taste
• ▢ Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
• ▢ Oil for deep frying

For Sauce:

• ▢ Oil - 1 tblspn
• ▢ Cashews - 50 grams
• ▢ Ginger - 1 tblspn chopped finely
• ▢ Garlic - 6 fat cloves chopped finely
• ▢ Onion - 1 medium size chopped finely
• ▢ Green Chillies - 3 large sliced at a angle
• ▢ White Part of 2 Spring Onions chopped
• ▢ Tomato Ketchup - 3 tblspn
• ▢ Green Chilli Sauce - 1 tblspn
• ▢ Soy Sauce - 1 tsp
• ▢ Vinegar - 1 tsp
• ▢ Red Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn
• ▢ Green Part of 2 Spring Onion chopped
• ▢ Salt to taste

Instructions

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  Mix all the sauces and red chilli powder in a bowl. Set aside.
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  Start by making sauce by heating oil, add in cashews and fry till golden. Add in ginger garlic and saute for 30 sec.
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  Now add in onions and spring onion white part. Mix well. Add in chillies and saute till golden.
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  Now add in the sauce and mix well. Heat this till it is thick. Set the sauce aside for a min.
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  Now mix egg, salt, pepper, cornflour in a bowl and mix well.
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  Add the chicken in and mix well. Drop the chicken in hot oil and fry till golden. Drain and set aside.
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  Now heat the sauce again and drop the chicken in. Toss well.
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  Add in spring onion green part and toss. Serve hot.

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