Been awhile since I got the wok hot - Sauteed Cashew Chicken

Mattman3969 · September 2015

Since getting the mini my wok has been neglected so I had to fix that tonight.

The cast of characters are chicken with a little cornstarch, salt & pepper, green onions,garlic,rice vinegar,red pepper flakes and a sauce made from hoisin sauce,soy,sesame oil and water.

Before the egg got really hot I roasted some cashews

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Now it's time for some wokkin. Chicken is almost done so in goes the whites of the green onions & some garlic

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Just a quick pic of how hot the fire was

Next goes the sauce followed by the cashews and the greens of the onions

And plated up with rice.

theyolksonyou · September 2015

Damn

NPHuskerFL · September 2015

Happy plate!

Jstroke · September 2015

Full salute. I have to admit stir fry is one thing I am not good at

Mattman3969 · September 2015

@theyolksonyou & @NPHuskerFL - thank you

@Jstroke - stir fry is crazy fun on the egg. Do you have any particular problems that I might be able to help you with? And thank you for the salute!!

jccbone62 · September 2015

Man that looks good. Thanks for sharing

DMW · September 2015

That looks great. I've always done the aromatics first and then added cooked protein. Looks like adding raw aromatics after cooking the chicken to almost finished and then adding the aromatics worked just fine, and much less work. Bravo.

caliking · September 2015

What?!?! Folks still cook on this forum??

That's a nice cook. I'd kill that plate.

Mattman3969 · September 2015

@DMW - I generally will do proteins first and remove then do the aromatics till close to done then proteins back in then sauce if there is any. This recipe called for cooking 1/2 the chicken(made sense because it was 1 1/2lbs). Then the second half of the chicken with the onion and garlic and when close to done the rest of the chicken goes back in. Way different than my norm but it worked really good.