Description
Enjoy your own magical night of cooking and eating this nutty, sweet, spicy Thai dish.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup of flour
- 3–4 chicken breasts, thinly sliced into bite-sized pieces
- 5 garlic cloves minced, or lightly smashed in your mortar and pestle
- 6–8 dried red chilies (depending on heat tolerance) chopped into 1 in. pieces
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced
- 1 red pepper, sliced into strips
- 2 cups of sliced, fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 cup of cashew nuts
- 5 green onion stalks, cut into 2 in. pieces
- 2–3 tbsp. of Thai chili paste
- 3–4 tbsp. of oyster sauce
- 2 tsp. of Thai soy sauce
- 2–3 tbsp. of sugar
Instructions
- Mix the flour with the chicken. Add more if needed until all chicken has been floured 🙂
- Heat cooking oil of your choice in your wok or pan until hot. Add chicken and cook until light brown. Remove chicken and place on plate.
- Add more oil if needed, throw in the garlic, red pepper, chilies and onion.
- Stir until fragrant and red pepper is soft.
- Toss in the chicken again, mushrooms and cashews.
- Add the chili paste, sauces and sugar to taste. Remember, just add a little at at time of each until you reach your preferred flavor.
- Once taste is the perfect blend of sweet, savory and spicy, and mushrooms are cooked, add in green onion and turn off heat.
- Stir and enjoy!
Notes
If you don’t have Thai soy sauce, you can also use fish sauce, or normal soy sauce.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2-3