HOW TO COOK SPECIAL CHICKEN AND CASHEWNUT ON THE RICE

By Chef Lucy
 
If you love checking out Chinese restaurants, you must have come across on the menu a dish called special chicken and  Cashew nut sprinkled with fried rice on it.

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This dish is yummy and you will love it. This dish involves making  a fragrant chili oil which will set the base for the whole dish.

 Ingredients

- A cup of oil

- 7 garlic cloves

-1 thinnly sliced  leek

- A cup red chili flakes

- 2 sliced chicken breasts

- 1 tablespoon of chopped ginger

-  2 tablespoons of soy sauce

- A cup of corn starch

-  A cup of  cashew nuts

- A cup of thinly sliced red chilli peppers

- A cup of chopped spring onions

- 1 tablespoon of Vinegar

- A cup of water

- Oil for deep frying

- Steamed  Daawat Basmat rice

Procedure to be followed 
 
1. Mix together ginger, soysauce, chicken and corn starch until it has been coated well.

2. The cashewnuts should be deep fried for 30 seconds and then put aside.The chicken pieces should be deep fried for 3 to 4 minutes or until they have become super crispy and then put them aside.

3. Heat the oil in a pan for making the chilli oil. Use your palms to bruise the garlic cloves by pressing them down on a hard surface. Add the garlic to the oil and then start stiring. Now add the leak and fry it for 10 minutes or until the leeks turned brown in colour.

4. Turn the heat off and then add chili flakes, stir and then sieve it properly. Put aside what is needed to prepare this dish and then keep the rest of it for the other dishes.

5. Heat 3 tablespoons of in a pan and then add the red chilli peppers and the spring onions and start stiring. Mix vinegar, cornstarch, soysauce and some water together and then pour it into the pan. Stir the mixture until it becomes fairly thick. When the mixture becomes very thick, add more water into it.

6. Add the cashewnuts and the fried chicken and then start tossing. Serve it with a bowl of steamed basmati rice.

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