Delicious Chicken & Cashews with Noodles
Using the TMX to stir fry was a bit scary. I was worried I'd end up with a mush of cooked vegies. So, I watched carefully with this one, but didn't pay attention to times. Also, when it came to cooking the chicken, I...errrr... chickened out. It was stirring slowly around in there and I suddenly thought it was going to end up an uncooked mush (not much faith in the TMX?) so I tipped it out to a hot fry pan.
The golden syrup came out in a great big blob when the lid just popped off... so I'd estimated the quantity. Teaches me to buy sauce bottles from $2 shops!! When it comes to a noodle dish, I really do miss that smooth, slimy texture of the sauces on the noodles. I hoped I could replicate this and I think I got it!!
Ingredients:
* 500g chicken breast
* 1-2 tabs canola oil
* 1-2 garlic cloves - crushed
* 1 carrot - finely sliced - matchsticks
* 2 sticks celery, finely sliced
* bamboo shoots - sliced into matchsticks
* snow peas - sliced roughly diagonally
* 100-125g raw cashews
* 2 spring onions - finely sliced diagonally
* 1 tab corn flour
* 1/2 cup water
* 2 tabs golden syrup
* 1 tsp sea salt
Method:
* Pre-heat TMX on Varoma temp for 2 minutes on Speed 1
* Add garlic and set to Varoma temp for 7 minutes, reverse speed 1, then after 1 minute, while it continues to cook...
* Add carrot, celery, bamboo shoot through hole in lid
* Meanwhile, in fry pan, brown chicken
* Add cashews to TMX through hole as it continues to stir fry
* Combine corn flour, water, golden syrup and salt in a small bowl and have it ready to go in
* Add cooked chicken through hole
* Add Snow Peas, Spring Onions as it continues to cook in TMX and, finally add corn flour mixture
* Allow to cook a further 2 minutes to get really well combined
* Serve over wide rice noodles (with no colours, preservatives etc)
Ms D & C absolutely inhaled it... Ms C again declaring it the 'best dinner ever'! Honestly, she's going to have to tone it down a tad. There's just no in between with this one. But, even I had to admit it was delicious!!!
members' comments
Roses - I cooked this last night and served it with Risotto (because I had some left over) and it was delicious! I cubed the chicken and tossed lightly in seasoned flour and browned it in the frying pan before adding. Thanks for sharing, it will now be one of my favourite.
LeeJ - I made this for failsafe ds tonight, he is on a strict 'I don't want anything but bread and bickies' diet. But, guess what? He ate it!! One of the first meals he's willingly eaten in a while now. Will pop this on the regular list, thanks.
