This Restaurant Style Cashew Chicken is so Good!! | Cashew Chicken Recipe | Chicken stir fry

cashews

🥗Healthier: almonds

💰Cheaper: peanuts

Almonds provide a similar crunch with less fat.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: tamari

💰Cheaper: liquid aminos

Tamari is gluten-free while liquid aminos is often less expensive.

Prepare the sauce by mixing oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and honey in a bowl. Set aside.

Debone and skin the chicken thighs. Remove excess fat and cut into strips.

Sprinkle the chicken strips with kosher salt and black pepper.

Prep the vegetables: dice half of a red bell pepper and half of an orange bell pepper, separate the layers of a small red onion, and slice a small carrot.

Mince about an inch of ginger and a couple of cloves of garlic, totaling about a tablespoon.

Cut the white part of the scallions and chop the green parts into pieces. Set everything aside.

In a wok, toast the cashew nuts slightly and then remove them from the wok.

Add vegetable oil to the wok and sauté the chicken until almost cooked, about 10 minutes, then remove the chicken into a container.

Reduce the heat and add a bit more oil to the wok, then add garlic, ginger, and the white part of the scallions.

Add the red onions, carrots, and peppers to the wok, seasoning with salt and black pepper. Bring the heat up.

Return the chicken to the wok along with any juices, and add the prepared sauce and some water to combine flavors.

Add the toasted cashews and the green parts of the scallions. Stir everything together.

Cooking Techniques

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