Cashew Chicken With Stir-Fry Vegetables

Submitted by It's Good to be Queen!

"Nice stir fry at home"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 453.59 g package cleaned & cut stir fry vegetables
• 340.19 g boneless skinless chicken breast, sliced thinly
• 44.37 ml water
• 22.18 ml cornstarch
• 44.37 ml vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 177.44 ml stir-fry sauce, Your favorite brand
• 118.29 ml unsalted roasted cashews

directions

1. Blanch vegetables 2-3 min in large pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender. Drain; transfer to bowl of ice water. Drain and set aside.
2. Place chicken in small bowl. Add 1 Tbsp of water at a time, working in with hands until water is absorbed into chicken. Sprinkle cornstarch over chicken and work in with hands to coat all pieces.
3. Drizzle oil around sides of stir-fry pan; tilt pan to distribute evenly. Heat oil in pan on HIGH until oil faintly smokes. (If oil smokes too much, pan is too hot.)
4. Add chicken; stir fry 2 minute Add garlic; stir fry 1 min (careful not to burn). Add sauce; toss to coat. Remove chicken and sauce from pan; set aside. Wipe pan clean.
5. Return pan to heat. Drizzle oil around sides of pan; tilt pan to distribute evenly. Heat oil in pan on HIGH until oil faintly smokes. (If oil smokes too much, pan is too hot.) Stir fry vegetables 1 minute Return chicken and sauce to pan along with cashews; toss to heat through, about 30 seconds.

Reviews

[cooking with love]

I needed dinner fast and remembered that I had signed up to make this for PAC 2012. I had all of the stuff at home and made it in a flash. It was great. The stir fry sauce I had was Szechuan so it had a bit of heat but it was still so good. Thank you for the inspiration. Don't need to pick up Chinese anymore if I keep all of this at home.

 

[Linky]

Very yummy! I had frozen stir fry veggies, so I just added them when the chicken was no longer pink. (Didn't bother to remove chicken from the wok.) Since I didn't have any stir fry sauce, per se, I subbed a packet of beef and broccoli sauce mix and it came out great! Thanks, IGTBQ!!! Spring PAC 2009