Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts, boned and skinned
  • 1/2 lb snow peas
  • 1/2 lb Chinese mushrooms
  • 4 green onions
  • 2 cups bamboo shoots, drained
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 tb. cornstarch
  • 1/2 ts sugar
  • 1/2 ts salt
  • 4 tb. peanut oil
  • 1 pack cashew nuts (about 4-oz)

Directions

Cashew Chicken

Slice breast horizontally into very thin slices and cut into squares.
Place on tray. Prepare vegetables, removing ends and strings from
pea pods, slicing mushrooms, green part of onions, and bamboo
shoots. Add to tray. Mix soy sauce, cornstarch, sugar, and salt.
Heat 1 tbls of oil in skillet over moderate heat, add all the nuts,
and stir fry 1 min. shaking the pan, toasting the nuts lightly.
Remove and reserve. Pour remaining oil in pan, fry chicken quickly,
turning often until it looks like opaque.

Lower heat to low. Add pea pods, mushrooms, and broth. Cover and
cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Simmer uncovered a bit
more and add green onions and nuts and serve immediately.




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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: www.alastra.com
Submitted By: Meryl
starmer@prodigy.net
CASHEW CHICKEN