Name: Cashew Chicken (Yao Guo Ji Ding)
Yield: Serves 2 as a main dish with rice or 4 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon soy sauce; ¼ teaspoon sesame oil; 1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; 10 oz (330 g) skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into 1 in (2.5 cm) cubes; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; ½ tablespoon oyster sauce; ½ teaspoon sugar; 3 tablespoons water; 3 dashes white pepper; ½ teaspoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; ¼ teaspoon salt or to taste; 2 tablespoons oil; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; ½ cup (75 g) roasted cashew nuts; ½ small red bell pepper, cut into pieces; ½ small green bell pepper, cut into pieces; One 1 in (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main dish with rice

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

Cashew Chicken was one of my favorite childhood dishes because of my love for cashew nuts. Growing up, I didn’t like chicken that much so I would pick out all the cashew nuts in the dish and eat them with my rice. As the years have passed I have formed a strong affinity for chicken, especially the tender, silky, velvety chicken meat served at Chinese restaurants. Somehow, home-cooked chicken just couldn’t compare, the texture was never as smooth as the ones served at restaurants. I r