Chinese
Cashew Chicken
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces and toss with the cornstarch.
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Stir the soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin, and sesame oil with 1/4 cup water for the sauce.
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Heat the neutral oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the chicken until browned and cooked through, about 6 minutes.
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Add the garlic, ginger, bell pepper, and celery and stir-fry for 3 minutes.
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Pour in the sauce and toss until it thickens, about 1 minute.
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Stir in the cashews and scallions and serve over rice.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cashew Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cashew Chicken carries tree nuts, gluten, shellfish, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 5 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 390 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 18 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Cashew Chicken takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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