Recipe - Chicken With Cashew Nuts (Oriental Cooking)

Three fourths pound Fresh chicken meat minced
One half cup Unsalted roasted cashew nuts
1 cup Diced Bok Choy stalks or
celery
One half cup Diced bamboo shoots
One half cup Diced water chestnuts
fresh or can
1 cup Diced sweet green pepper
1 cup Diced sweet red pepper or
carrots
1 teaspoon Minced fresh garlic root
1 teaspoon Minced garlic
1 tablespoon Hoisin sauce
One half tablespoon Bean sauce
1 teaspoon Chili sauce ( optional) (up
to 2)
4 tablespoon Cooking oil
One fourth cup Water or chicken stock
1 teaspoon Sesame oil or hot sesame oil
( spicy)
2 teaspoon Cornstarch dissolved in 1
tablespoon cold water

MARINATE INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon Thin soy sauce
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Wine
2 teaspoon Cornstarch
2 teaspoon Cooking oil

Recipe by Betty SooHoo Eng, Instructor Mayland Community College serves
about 6 people

1. Heat wok over high heat until hot (omit preheating if your wok is teflon
coated). Put in 2 tablespoons cooking oil, add chicken, stir fry for 2
minutes or until chicken is brown, remove and set aside.

2.Put 2 tablespoons cooking oil in hot wok, put in ginger,garlic, Hoisin
sauce, and bean sauce. Then put in all the minced vegetables. Stir fry for 1
minute. Pour in One fourth cup of water or chicken stock, cover and cook for 2
minutes.

3. Put in the cooked chicken and sesame oil, Stir in cornstarch to thicken.
Remove to a serving plate. Sprinkle roasted cashew nuts on top. Serve hot.

My notes: Ingredients in Hoisin Sauce : sugar, vinegar, soy bean, water,
salt, wheat flour, garlic, sesame seed, chili, spices and artificial color
(fd&c red#4) It is bottled in Hong Kong.

If anyone is still interested in Oriental recipes I have the recipe for:
Beef Lo Mein, Steak with Onion, Chicken fried Rice, and Sweet and Sour
Soup. Let me know.

Ruth, who will be going again to Knoxville TN. again this weekend for a
taping of Club Dance. Starting on Sept. 13 we can be seen on TNN(
Nashville Network ) at either 9:A.M or 2P.M. eastern time for 9 consecutive
weekdays. My husband is very tall, and I am short and somewhat dumpy. We
both have grey hair, and he has a grey beard. Perhaps you can find us in
the crowd of dancers.
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