Today I will share a dish of fried chicken with cashew nuts, which makes the chicken smooth and tender, the cashew nuts are crispy, the color is bright, delicious and delicious, and the meat and nuts are mixed, the nutrition is more comprehensive, and it is suitable for all ages.
"Diced cashew nut chicken".
"Prepare ingredients": cashew nuts, chicken breast, egg whites, shallots, garlic, "ingredients": salt, sugar, cooking wine, starch, cooking oil.
"Prepare in advance": Wash and drain the chicken breast, peel off the white membrane on the surface, cut it into strips lengthwise, cut it into small square cubes with a knife, wash and cut the shallots, peel and crush the garlic for later use.
The method of "cashew nut chicken": The method is simpler than kung pao chicken, delicious and home-cooked, and you often drink wine and eat more of this dish.
Beat 1 egg white, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 2 teaspoons of starch and 1 teaspoon of cooking wine into the diced chicken, stir well and marinate for 10 to 15 minutes.
Turn on low heat, pour 3 tablespoons of cooking oil into the pan, add cashew nuts, fry over low heat until slightly golden brown, remove them, let them cool, and drain the oil. When frying cashew nuts, it is more appropriate to use low heat, because the heat is too high and the oil temperature is too high, and the cashew nuts are easy to fry after being put into the pan.
Continue to low heat, use the amount of oil from the fried cashew nuts, burn until the oil surface begins to bloom, put in the marinated chicken, use chopsticks to disperse, fry the chicken until the color of the chicken turns white, remove it, drain the oil and set aside.
Turn to high heat, leave a small amount of bottom oil at the bottom of the pot, add green onions and garlic to stir-fry first, then add diced chicken and cashew nuts and stir-fry, add 1 teaspoon of salt to the pot to taste, stir evenly.
Turn off the heat and put it on a prepared plate, this "cashew nut chicken" is ready, the chicken cloves are crispy and tender, the cashew nuts are crisp and refreshing, compared with the Sichuan Kung Pao chicken, the taste is relatively crispy, but the taste is different, the operation materials are simple and not complicated, if you like it, you may wish to change the taste.
Tips:
Fried cashew nuts are easy to be scorched, heat the pan first, pour in cooking oil and heat for about 1 minute to put in the cashew nuts, continue to fry slowly over low heat, stir back and forth in the pot and roll the cashew nuts, you can fish out a little discoloration, the color of the cashew nuts will become darker after the pot, and you also need to pay attention to the color change of the cashew nuts in the process of frying.