Cashew Chicken With Plum Sauce

Recipe Junkie's Note:

From the thrift store cookbook.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 45 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 ¼ cups plum jam or 1 ¼ cups preserves
• ½ teaspoon Accent seasoning
• 2 drops red food coloring
• 1 ½ cups water
• ½ cup chopped cashews
• 2 cups steamed rice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 slice fresh ginger , thin slice, dime-size
• 1 sliced garlic clove , thin slice
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 broiler chickens , cut in serving pieces
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce

Directions:

1. Combine cornstarch and plum jam in saucepan, stirring until smooth as possible.
2. Crush together thoroughly ginger and garlic with salt.
3. Add this to plum mixture along with water, oyster sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, accent, and red food coloring.
4. Cook sauce over low heat, stirring constantly, until it is thickened.
5. Arrange broiled chicken in a single layer on a large heat-proof platter.
6. Cover chicken pieces completely with the sauce and sprinkle them generously with chopped cashews.
7. Heat the chiken in oven at 350 until hot.
8. Serve with rice.