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Thai cashew chicken

Enjoy this Asian-style chicken with all the flavour, but without overdoing the salt and sat fat.

  • Hands-on time: 10 mins
  • Time to make: 25 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 red chillies, thinly sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • 500g chicken tenderloins, cut into strips
  • 4 spring onions, cut into 3cm batons
  • 1 each red, green and yellow capsicum, cut into strips
  • ½ cup unsalted roasted cashews
  • cooked brown rice
  • coriander leaves
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    • Sauce
    • 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
    • 2 teaspoons reduced-salt soy sauce
    • ¼ cup water
    • ½ salt-reduced chicken stock cube, crushed
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 In a small bowl, combine sauce ingredients.

    2 Place oil in a wok and set over over medium heat. Add chilli and garlic and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes until soft. Transfer mixture to bowl. Add chicken to pan and cook for 5 minutes until browned. Add spring onions and capsicums and cook for a further 3 minutes until vegetables are cooked.

    3 Add sauce ingredients, chilli/garlic mixture and cashews to the pan and cook for a further 5 minutes until the sauce has thickened slightly.

    4 Serve with brown rice and coriander leaves.

    HFG tip

    A sachet of microwaveable brown rice is ready to go in 90 seconds. Or, if you have the time, cook it from scratch for a super economical side.

    One comment on Thai cashew chicken

    1. 25266956 December 14, 2023 at 6:27 am #

      I added lots of different veges, just what was in my garden. It was yum

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