Thai-style Chicken with Cashew Nuts
This Thai-inspired recipe combines diced chicken with cashew nuts, spring onions, herbs and a lime-soy sauce.
62K 18 4.9
Last modified on: June 21th 2015
Keywords for this recipe:For 4 people, you will need:
- 1
50 g cashew nuts - 2
6 tablespoons oil - 3
2 tablespoons soy sauce - 4
1 tablespoon lime juice - 5
1 tablespoon rice vinegar - 6
1 tablespoon Vietnamese fish sauce (nuoc mam) - 7
2 spring onions (scallions) - 8
1 garlic clove - 9
350 g chicken breast - 10
herbs of your choice - Total weight: 825 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 6 min. | 18 min. | 24 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 1 min.
Pour 6 tablespoons oil into a pan on medium heat. When hot, add 50 g cashew nuts.
Stage 2 - 3 min.
Fry the cashew nuts until lightly browned, stirring frequently...
Stage 3 - 1 min.
Stage 4 - 2 min.
Prepare the sauce by mixing 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon lime juice, 1 tablespoon rice vinegar and 1 tablespoon Vietnamese fish sauce (nuoc mam).
If you enjoy spicy flavours, add some chilli to suit your own taste.
If you enjoy spicy flavours, add some chilli to suit your own taste.
Stage 5 - 3 min.
Pour 2 tablespoonsful of the cooking oil from the cashew nuts back into the same pan on medium heat. Add the chopped 2 spring onions (scallions) and 1 garlic clove and cook for 1 or 2 minutes.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 6 - 7 min.
Still using the same pan on medium heat, use 2 more tablespoonsful of the cashew nut cooking oil to fry 350 g chicken breast, cut into small dice.
Stage 7 - 1 min.
When nicely browned, pour in the sauce...
Stage 8 - 1 min.
...the cashew nuts, onion, garlic and the herbs of your choice. Try if possible to include some lemon balm, it's important for that "Thai" flavour).
Stage 9 - 5 min.
Leave the sauce to reduce a little, stirring frequently.
Stage 10
Serve on a bed of plain white rice.
Remarks
If there is not enough oil left from cooking the cashew nuts, just use plain oil.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,745 Kcal or 7,306 Kj | 88 gr | 50 gr | 136 gr |
| 87 % | 34 % | 5 % | 21 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 212 Kcal or 888 Kj | 11 gr | 6 gr | 16 gr |
| 11 % | 4 % | 1 % | 2 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 436 Kcal or 1,825 Kj | 22 gr | 13 gr | 34 gr |
| 22 % | 8 % | 1 % | 5 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 4 people : 6.78 €
- Per person : 1.70 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Chicken breast: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pan-fried chicken breast on mozzarella, Chicken breasts with tarragon, Couscous, Coq au vin, Baker's chicken and potato tart, ... All |
 | Cashew nuts: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Spinach and cashew brik rolls, Cashew-nut and Parmesan biscuits, Beetroot salad with cashew nuts, Coriander and cashew nut pesto, Spicy hot toasted cashew nuts, ... All |
 | Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Larded pork tenderloin, Sesame fried scampi, Ali Baba bread, Comtoise endive salad, Julia salad, ... All |
 | Soy sauce: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chinese style chicken, Sautéed Pork with Peanuts, Scandinavian cocktail, Vietnamese prawns, Red sea bream fillets in a soy-sauce marinade, ... All |
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