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222.0. "Chicken With Cashews" by KATIE::RICHARDSON () Thu Feb 20 1986 11:02

    Chicken Breast with Cashew Nuts (Yah Goh Gee Ding)
    
    3 T peanut oil
    2 scallions, cut into 1/4 inch pieces (I usually use more scallions)
    2 boned chicken breasts, cut in 1/2 inch pieces, mixed with:
        1 T or more hoisin sauce
        2 T light soy sauce
        2 t Chinese rice wine or cooking sherry
        some hot oil, optional
        2 t cornstarch
        1/8 t pepper
    1 c cashew nuts (or blanched peanus or walnuts)
    salt, optional (I don't use it)
    
    Heat the oil and stir-fry the scallions until slightly brown.
    Add the chicken mixture and stir-fry until the chicken changes color,
        about two minutes or so.
    Add the cashews and mix well.
    Add the salt if you use it.
    Serve over rice.

    I made this last night and it was good!  One tip so people will
    learn from my mistake:  Don't buy roasted, salted cashews.  I searched
    for raw cashews but couldn't find them, so I figured the 'snack'
    kind would do.  Wrong, the roasting dried them out and the saltiness
    was too much.
    
    

    I usually can't get unroasted unsalted cashews either, so I rinse
    off the salt first.  Seems to work OK.  I think if you do find raw
    cashews, you will want to fry them or roast them yourself anyhow,
    which is some extra work - sometimes you can get unsalted roasted
    nuts (we eat very little salt in my house, so recipes I type in
    usually have the salt in parentheses unless it is essential to the
    recipe, meaning that we make the recipe with no salt at all).