Cashew Chicken

Yes, not my best photographic effort, I know. It's blurry. Oh well. The food was good - do try to make it! (And I will take a better photo next time.)

Cashew Chicken
(printable recipe)
serves 2

2 small chicken breasts
3 garlic cloves
6 scallions
100 ml cashews, unsalted
2 tbsp rice vinegar
100 ml water
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp peanut oil
salt, pepper

Prepare all ingredients: cut the chicken into smaller pieces. Mince the garlic. Cut the scallions into 2-3 cm long pieces, and keep the white and greens separate for now. Toast the cashews in a dry pan.

Heat the peanut oil in a wok or large frying pan. Fry the chicken with salt and pepper on high heat for about a minute. Add the garlic and the white scallion parts, and fry for three minutes while stirring. Add the rice vinegar and lower the heat to medium. When it's mostly reduced - after a minute or so - add water, soy and hoisin sauce. Cook for another minute, at which point the chicken should be cooked through. Stir in sesame oil, cashew and the green scallions, and serve straight away over rice.

Recipe in Swedish:
Kyckling med cashewnötter