Stir Fried Chicken Cashew Nuts

It is winter season and I am having my first experience with negative temperatures. So, I keep two things close to me, one of them is sea food and the other one is nuts. My nuts are obviously attached to me but I am talking about almonds, cashew nuts, pecans, pistachio and various other types of nuts.

Craving Chinese food recently made me want to make one of my favorite recipes of all time which is Stir Fried Chicken Cashew Nuts.

I always have a love and hate relationship with Chinese food. Love it because it is delicious and hate it because it takes so long to prepare it and not so long to eat.

INGREDIENTS:

500 gram boneless chicken, cut into 1/2 inch cubes

1/2 cup of cashew nuts, salted roasted preferred

4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

1.5 tablespoons of chopped ginger

4-6 green onions sliced (keep the whites and the greens separated)

1 bell pepper of any color, cut into cubes

1/2 teaspoon of red chili flakes

1 cup chicken broth

2 tablespoon soy sauce

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 teaspoon sugar

1.5 teaspoons of cornflour

Marinate the chicken in a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of black pepper.

Finely chop the ginger and garlic.

Heat 3 tablespoons of vegetable or canola oil in a pan and stir fry the chicken, garlic and ginger for 5 minutes until the chicken changes it color like the people in your life and is properly cooked.

Take out the chicken once it is cooked and chop the rest of your vegetables.

Now in the same pan or wok add the mushrooms and the sliced white part of thegreen onion and stir fry for 1 minute. 

Add the cashew nuts and red chili flakes.

Let these fry for a 2-3 minutes.

Meanwhile in a bowl mix, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chicken broth and flour.

Add bell pepper to the wok, fry it for a minute and add the chicken with the sauce you just made.

Fry until your desired thickness of the sauce.

I had a some bean sprouts in the fridge so I added them as well.

Give everything a good stir and by this point Stir Fried Chicken Cashew Nuts is ready to serve.

Serve this with steamed brown or white rice or boiled noodles or even fried rice or noodles. You can hank me later.

Stir Fried Chili Chicken Noodles

Patience is the key to success not the shit that DJ Khaled tell you guys.

Patience is lacking in the people, kindness is lacking in the people yet the ones who have these traits are the most beautiful human beings in the world.

Patience is also required in making Asian food. The weirdest food which takes 30+ minutes in preparation and it is cooked in only 5-10 minutes. I HATE MAKING ASIAN FOOD BUT I LOVE EATING IT.

Then again I love eating almost anything (HALAL to be more precise)

There is a new restaurant in town and I have been there thrice. The food is amazing and I urge you all to try that out. It is called The Rice Bowl and the whole concept of the restaurant is very innovative and different. They also have a a home delivery menu which I had my eyes on and upon Noor's suggestion I tried their Stir Fried Chili Chicken Noodles AND THEY WERE BEYOND AMAZING. So amazing that I had to try and make them myself and I did.

The preparation time is 30 minutes which involves a lot of cutting in detail. The rest is history.

INGREDIENTS:

1 pack of Chinese egg noodles (preferred brand in the pictures; bought from Al Fatah)

250 grams of chicken cut into thin slices

1 can of mushrooms, sliced

1 tablespoon of sliced ginger

1 tablespoon of sliced garlic

1/2 cup of chicken broth

1 tablespoon of vinegar

1 tablespoon of oyster sauce

1 1/2 tablespoons of soy sauce

1 tablespoon of fish sauce

2 tablespoon of oyster sauce (one for chicken and one for sauce)

1 teaspoon cornflour

1 small onion, sliced in cubes

green onions (white part cut into inch long slices)

4-6 green chilies sliced in half

First we will boil the noodles. If you are using the same brand as in the pictures or a similar one then do not boil the noodles for more than 30 seconds. Yes you read it right, 30 seconds because these noodles cook quickly.

Marinate the chicken in a pinch of salt and pepper, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon sesame oil and 1 teaspoon of cornflour.

Mix it well and set it aside.

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok or non-stick pan and fry the ginger garlic alongside the chicken until the chicken is completely cooked.

While the chicken cooks make this sauce by combining soy sauce, chicken stock, oyster sauce, fish sauce and sesame oil.

Now take the chicken out of the wok and add 2 more tablespoons of oil.

Start frying the vegetables 1 minute each, starting from the mushrooms, green onions, onions and green chilies.

Now add the sauce while stir frying the vegetables and quickly add the cooked noodles and chicken.

Give everything a thorough stir and Stir Fried Chili Chicken Noodles is ready to be served.

Asian food doesn't get much better than this. Dive in the amazing Stir Fried Chili Chicken Noodles.

General Tso's Chicken

General Raheel Sharif our very own Chief of Army Staff. Amazing man, loved by many people. He's loved so much that people even thank him if something randomly goes right in their lives.

Still we don't love him as much as the Chinese loved their General Tso Tsung-t'ang that they named a recipe after him called General Tso's Chicken. Though there is no record of this actually being his favorite recipe or not but it originated from his home town and now is one of the favorite American-Chinese dine-in/take-out recipes of all time.

Now to make this recipe you need to make a chili paste which is totally worth it and you can use it in many other recipes as well.

For this chili paste you need 50 dried chilis, 1 cup boiled water, 4 garlic cloves, 1 inch long ginger piece, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tablespoons white vinegar and 4 tablespoons oil.

Soak the chilies in the water for 30 minutes. Drain the water out of the soaked chilies.

Grind them with 4 tablespoons of vinegar.

Grind garlic cloves and ginger as well.

Put grind chili paste, ground ginger and garlic in non stick pan.

Add 4 tablespoons of oil, salt and cook it on medium heat for 2 minutes.

Chili paste is done and you can store it in a jar.

Now the chili paste is made we can start the recipe.

Ingredients For Chicken Marinade:

500 grams boneless chicken cut into 1 inch bite sized cubes

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon sesame oil

Ingredients For Chicken Batter:

1 egg

1/4 cup cornflour

Ingredients For Sauce:

1/2 cup chicken stock

2 tablespoons of chili garlic sauce

1 tablespoon of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of vinegar

2 tablespoons of sugar

1 teaspoon of cornflour

Ingredients For Stir Fry:

4 cloves of garlic finely chopped

4-5 dried red chilies

2 tablespoons of chili paste

2 tablespoons of oil

First of we will marinade the chicken in salt, pepper, baking soda and sesame oil.

Set aside the chicken for 15-30 minutes.

Meanwhile the chicken is marinating we will make the sauce.

In a bowl add sugar, soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, vinegar, chicken stock and cornflour.

Mix it properly.

Now its time to prepare the chicken batter.

For this we will add one egg in the chicken marinade and then add cornflour.

Mix it properly with preferably you clean beautiful hands.

Heat 1 inch deep oil in your non stick pan on medium low heat.

Start cooking the chicken in batches.

It took me two batches to done with my chicken.

Cook for 3-4 minutes on each side and take out the chicken on a paper-toweled plate.

If you want extra crisp on your chicken you need to let it cool down and then fry it in the heating oil once more for 1 to 2 minutes.

Time to prepare the sauce but before we need to stir fry chopped garlic, dried red chilies and chili paste you made for this beautiful recipe in 2 tablespoons of oil.

Stir fry them for 1 minutes and then add the sauce mix.

(before adding the sauce mix give it a good mix as the sugar and cornflour would be set below.

Cook the sauce for 1 to two minutes and add the chicken.

Stir in the chicken for 30 seconds and take it off the heat.

General Tso's chicken is ready to serve.

You can eat it with noodles but I always love stir fried meats in sauce with vegetable fried rice. So, I made myself some.

It's sweet and spicy at the same time blended together in a unique way. It's none other than General Tso's Chicken. Thank you Raheel Sharif for my cooking skills.

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