Cashew chicken is a similarly easy meal to make. Have your kitchen gnomes assemble:
- 50g chicken breast/thigh, cut into bite size pieces.
- 1-2 cloves garlic, finely chopped.
- 1 large, dried red chili, diced. (Then, while the instructor isn’t looking, carefully remove those chilies and all traces of seeds from your plate.)
- 1/4 onion, halved.
- 2 ears baby corn, sliced into 1/2cm wide pieces. (They actually had fresh baby corn. I kind of thought it just grew in cans, and the jolly green giant just came along and picked the cans off of the vines….)
- 1 spring onion, cut into one inch lengths.
- 1/4 carrot, sliced into 1/2 cm wide pieces.
- 2 tbsp roasted cashew nuts.
- 2 tbsp cooking oil.
- 1 tsp sugar.
- 1 tsp fish sauce.
- 1 tsp soy sauce.
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce.
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper.
Get the gnomes to arrange everything like this, with the sauces pre mixed and everything nicely piled.
Then heat the oil over medium heat.
Cook the garlic pile. (Be careful – if you weren’t quick enough this pile may still have traces of chilli in it.)
Add chicken and stir until cooked.
Add the veggie pile and the sauce bowl and stir until veggies are cooked.
Add the green onion and nut bowl and stir, then remove from heat.
Pour next to the rice the gnomes made and eat.
