chicken fried with cashew nuts (kai phad met ma muang)
categories:  Chicken |    

Prepared: 2004-04-19

Ingredients:

• 300g boneless skinned chicken breasts cut into slices
• all-purpose flour for coating
• 1 cup (225 ml) peanut or corn oil
• 4 dried red chillies cut into 1 cm pieces
• 1 tbsp chopped garlic
• 10 spring onions (white parts) cut into 1 cm pieces
• 1/3 cup (50 g) unsalted roasted cashew nuts
• 1 onion sliced
• 2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tbsp sugar

Preparation:

• Coat the chicken lightly with flour.
• Heat the oil in a pan or wok for about 5 minutes until light brown.
• Remove almost all the oil from the pan.
• Add the chilli and garlic to the chicken in the pan and fry for 1 minute.
• Add all the remaining ingredients.
• Fry until cooked, about 3 more minutes.

Notes:
To fry the chicken I set the wok to 375-400 F.
For the rest of the ingredients after the chilli and garlic, I lowered the heat to about 300 F.
I added a tiny bit of water near the end to make it a bit more saucy.

makes 4 servings @ 325 calories per serving