Today, when beauty and health are almost a cult, proper nutrition has become the most popular system that many people adhere to. Nuts and meat are the basis of a healthy diet, so Thai cashew chicken will perfectly complement healthy recipes, and besides, it’s not at all difficult to prepare it yourself. But before you eat or cook something new, you need to calculate the BJU, in our case the calorie content of the dish is 137 kcal, proteins - 8 grams, fats - 8 grams and carbohydrates - 7 grams.
Only the Thais are able to successfully and truly tasty combine in their original recipes seemingly absolutely incompatible tastes, such as sweetness, acidity and spiciness in Thai chicken with nuts.
Thai chicken, or as it is called in Thailand - “Gai Pad Med Mamuang”, like any traditional Asian treat, is replete with spices and sauces that give the dish a simply indescribable aroma and incomparable taste.
Chicken with cashews: preparatory stage
- Cashews for cooking should be taken raw, unsalted and preferably fresh. But if you can’t find other cashews besides “beer nuts,” then these will do. The main condition is no seasonings other than salt.
- Chili peppers should be hot and fresh. But if you can’t eat too spicy food, then you can replace the chili with dried sweet pods, which will only add the desired aroma to the dish, but not “pepperiness”.
- It will be great if you find palm sugar for the recipe, but if you don’t have it, you can replace it with cane sugar, or, at worst, with simple refined sugar.
- If you want to give the dish a Chinese touch, you can add shiitake mushrooms, which are used in a similar Chinese dish called “Kung Pao Chicken.”
- Thai chicken contains three types of sauce: regular soy sauce, fish sauce and oyster sauce.
- Oyster sauce is very tasty, but you need to choose a good quality product that is dark in color and thick. “Cheap” oyster sauce has a reddish tint and frankly smells of ketchup and synthetic flavors.
- Fish sauce has a very repulsive smell in its pure form, but its aroma is absolutely not noticeable in dishes. And fish sauce is added to all Thai dishes as a natural flavor enhancer, which it does an excellent job of.
Classic Thai cashew chicken recipe
Ingredients
- — 0.3 kg + -
- Cashew nuts - 0.1 kg + -
- — 4 pcs + -
- — 1 piece + -
- Green onion - 30-40 g + -
- - 1/2 tsp. + -
- - 4 pods + -
- — 1 piece + -
- Oyster sauce – 30-40 ml + -
- — 5 ml + -
- Fish sauce - 5 ml + -
- — 1 stack + -
- — 15-20 g + -
- — 30-50 ml + -
How to make Thai chicken with cashews
- Cut the chicken fillet into short pieces, the size of cashews.
- We cut the bell pepper into the same pieces.
- Crush the garlic flat with a knife and then chop it into small cubes.
- Cut the onion hand into 2 halves across the tail and then cut thinly across the rings into strips.
- You don’t have to chop the green onion too much. We cut it arbitrarily, the main thing is not too large (3-4 cm) and it is advisable to choose thinner onion arrows.
- For dressing, all available sauces, a spoonful of chili pepper and granulated sugar should be mixed in a small cup.
- Let's start cooking. Pour oil into a frying pan with a narrow bottom, like a wok, and heat it thoroughly. Then pour cashews into a container and fry the nuts, stirring constantly until golden. Transfer the finished nuts to a paper napkin.
- Place the dried sweet chili peppers in the oil that remains in the pan and fry them over medium heat until they swell and imbue the oil with their aroma. Remove the chili onto a napkin. Please note that the peppers may burst and splatter with hot oil, so be careful when frying them!
- In the vacated frying pan in the same oil, first fry the garlic for literally half a minute, then increase the heat under the wok and pour the chicken slices with onion straws into the oil. Over high heat, stirring vigorously, fry all ingredients for 5-7 minutes until the chicken turns white.
- Then pour 30 ml of water into the frying pan, along with the sauce prepared in advance, and mix everything thoroughly.
- Next, transfer the bell pepper into the container, roast for a couple of minutes, and then add the nuts and green onions, mix everything again and remove the wok from the heat.
"Gai Pad Med Mamuang" European style
This step-by-step recipe can be considered an adaptation of the original Thai chicken with cashews to suit the tastes and stomachs of Europeans, because Thai food is famous for its particular spiciness and abundance of specific additives that not everyone likes. However, this simpler recipe fully conveys the unique taste of the dish.
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar – 7 g;
- Chicken meat – 200 g;
- Bell peppers – 2 fruits;
- Rice vinegar – 15-20 ml;
- Hot chili pod – 1 piece;
- Cashew nuts – 0.1 kg;
- Soy sauce – 15-20 ml;
- Small garlic head – 1 piece;
- Olive oil – 30-35 ml;
- Onion head – 1 piece;
- Drinking water – 0.1 l.
How to cook Thai chicken with cashews
- Pour a little vegetable oil into the frying pan, wait until the oil warms up, and pour the nuts into the container, fry them for 10 minutes until golden brown and remove them to a plate.
- In the same oil, fry the chili pepper cut into 3 pieces over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, then take it out and throw it away.
- Meanwhile, cut the chicken and bell pepper into cubes according to the size of the nuts.
- Chop the onion into thin half rings, garlic into slices.
- Now add the garlic to the oil. After 1 minute, put the chicken and onions into the frying pan and fry everything together for 10 minutes.
- Mix vinegar with soy sauce and granulated sugar in a small cup and pour into the chicken, and also add water. Mix everything.
- Pour bell pepper into a container, cook it with all other ingredients for 3 minutes, and then add nuts to the dish.
- After mixing everything, wait 1 minute and turn off the heat.
It doesn’t matter how exactly the chicken with cashews is prepared in Thai, according to a classic authentic recipe or a European adaptation, the side dish for this national Asian treat remains the same for all times - boiled, steamed rice or cooked with vegetables.
Kai Pad Met Ma Muang or fried chicken with cashews in Russian is another Thai dish that I received the recipe for while studying at culinary school. I have already mentioned more than once that when visiting Thailand, I highly recommend taking cooking classes there. They don’t last very long, but during this time you manage to prepare several dishes with your own hands, which means you remember and understand the process itself, try the recipe in practice, which is undoubtedly important so that the result is as similar as possible to a real Thai dish. Also, after training, you will receive a certificate of completion of the course and a book with recipes for the most popular Thai dishes.
I also cooked chicken with cashew nuts myself. Honestly, I didn’t know about such a dish before, I didn’t order it in restaurants, so I cooked it and tried it here for the first time. When I saw the recipe, I immediately realized that it would taste wonderful and I was not mistaken;)
Ingredients:
- chicken - 200 gr
– cashews or almonds – 70 g
– carrots – 90 gr
- young corn - 90 g (English: baby corn - young corn, it’s more of a variety, small corn, with a fine relief, looks like this -).
— onions — 60 g
- mushrooms (Jell mushrooms are used for this dish) - 60 g
– large dried chili pepper – 5 g
– green onions – 100 gr
- garlic - 2 heads
- soybean or sunflower oil for frying - 3 tbsp
- oyster sauce - 2 tbsp
- fish sauce - 1 tbsp
- sugar - 1 tsp
Preparation:
1. Let's cut all our ingredients.
Cut the chicken into long thin transparent pieces. Cut the carrots into half circles, corn along the cob, onions into slices, and mushrooms into thin slices. Cut the green onions into 3 cm long pieces, as well as the chili pepper. Finely chop the garlic.
We place all the products on a plate so that they are immediately ready for quick frying. 
2. Heat soybean/sunflower oil in a wok (deep frying pan). Place cashew nuts in it and fry for about 3 minutes.
3. Add garlic and stir-fry until golden brown.
4. Add chicken and continue stir-frying until cooked through.
5. Place a mixture of carrots, corn, mushrooms and onions into the pan.
6. Add oyster and fish sauces, as well as sugar. Mix everything well.
7. Sprinkle chili pepper on top and stir until cooked.
8. Add green onions and mix everything well again. Turn off the heat. The dish is ready!!
Fried chicken with cashews is usually served along with boiled rice.
I really liked that despite the word “fried” in the title, it actually turns out to be a very healthy food. My photographs show that the chicken is not at all crispy and oozing with fat, as is usually meant by this word in European countries. The dish is more like stewed or steamed, and the vegetables retain their beneficial properties. This is great for people who prefer healthy, light food, and it’s useful for everyone;)
Travelers love to have a “belly celebration” in Thailand. Local cuisine is simple, aromatic and very tasty. The secret is in spices, a minimal set of ingredients and quick preparation. We offer one of the gastronomic recipes - Thai chicken.
In Thailand, poultry meat is cheap, and the food is famous for its amazing sweet and sour taste. An incredible taste is achieved by mixing soy sauce with honey and spices.
Many recipes add oyster sauce, coconut milk and pineapple. The latter ingredient is not just trendy, pineapples are part of many dishes. In Thailand, pineapples grow at every turn. These fruits are considered common on the everyday menu.
Thais add pieces or juice of pineapple to the stewed poultry. The fillet is prepared in a frying pan or on a stick, like a shish kebab. Now you too will learn the secrets of traditional Thai cuisine.
Thai spicy chicken with vegetables in honey sauce
According to the classic recipe, Thai chicken is cooked in sweet and sour sauce. And without salt. The saltiness comes from soy sauce, and the sweetness comes from honey. Would you like some honey? Add sugar and a little pineapple syrup or cranberry jam.
Products:
- chicken breast fillet – 0.5 kg;
- onion heads – 2 pcs.;
- 1 piece bell pepper;
- soy sauce – 50 ml;
- honey – 15 g;
- ground curry – 2 tsp;
- garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
- wheat flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
- ground pepper – 0.5 tsp;
- 20 ml sunflower oil.
How we will cook:
1. Prepare your food in advance. Rinse, clean.
2. Cut the fillet into strips, not finely. Chop the onion head and pepper into strips.
3. Mix honey and soy sauce separately. Add curry, flour, ground pepper. Pass the garlic through a press. Stir until smooth.
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Place the chicken. Fry the pieces on each side for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
5. Pour the chopped vegetables into the frying pan. Fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring.
6. Add chicken and sauce to the onions. Stir. Simmer covered for 10 minutes.
Recipe with coconut milk
Authentic chicken recipe - with coconut milk. For preparation you will need natural lemon leaves. Purchase them in advance. Or substitute the juice of half a medium lemon.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet – 700 gr.;
- onion head – 1 pc.;
- coconut milk – 0.5 l;
- green curry paste – 1 tsp. (with a slide);
- 1 tsp. salt;
- sugar – 2 tsp;
- 40 gr. ginger root;
- 4-5 lemon leaves;
- 460 gr. long grain rice.
How to cook step by step:
- Cut the onion into strips into a saucepan. Pour in coconut milk. Leave to simmer over low heat.
- Free poultry meat from fat and skin. Cut into strips, then into smaller cubes. Mix with curry paste. Transfer to onion. Stir.
- Add salt and sweeten. Stir. Simmer over moderate heat. Do not cover the pan with a lid.
- Peel the ginger. First cut into thin slices, then into strips. Add to the bird along with the lemon leaves. Stir. Leave on low heat.
- Rinse the rice. Place into boiling water. Cook until al dente. The grains should be soft, but not boiled. Rinse with hot water through a sieve. It is convenient to rinse the cereal in portions.
Serve rice on a plate. Pour sauce over vegetables and poultry. You've got a real Thai dinner.
Chicken with pineapple Thai style
Anyone can make chicken with pineapple according to a Thai recipe. The set of products is quite simple. You will have simply gastronomic madness! This dish is so delicious. Write down the recipe, you will cook it more than once.
We will need:
- 800 gr. chicken meat;
- 2-3 pinches of ground hot pepper;
- the same amount of red pepper;
- soy sauce – 2 tbsp. l.;
- 1 tsp. Sahara;
- onion head – 1 pc.;
- bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- potato starch – 3 tsp;
- 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- 1 pinch of ground ginger;
- sunflower oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
- pineapples – 50 gr.;
- chili pepper - tip;
- green onion feathers - for decoration.
Preparation:
- Cut the meat into portions. Mix with ground peppers, soy sauce, starch and sugar.
- Heat liquid oil in a wok pan. Fry chicken pieces on it.
- Chop the onion and pepper coarsely. Add to meat. Stir. Leave for 2 minutes. Stir again.
- Cut the pineapple into thin pieces. Use fresh fruit or canned fruit.
- Add tomato paste. Sprinkle with ginger. Stir. Leave to fry for 5-7 minutes.
Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped fresh herbs. It turned out delicious, didn't it?
With cashew nuts
Prepare chicken in sweet and sour Thai dressing for the holiday. Guests will definitely be surprised! With cashew nuts, the bird will taste great. Get ready to share the recipe.
Ingredients:
- poultry meat – 300 gr.;
- garlic cloves – 3 pcs.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- 100 gr. cashew;
- 0.5 tsp. sweet paprika;
- oyster sauce - 2 tbsp. l.;
- 1 tbsp. l. palm sugar;
- soy sauce – 1 tsp;
- fish sauce - the same amount;
- sunflower oil – 1 tbsp. l.;
- a bunch of green onions - for serving.
Cooking step by step:
- Cut the poultry and pepper into strips. Press the garlic through a press. Cut the onion feathers into fragments. Smaller onion head.
- Separately for pouring, mix oyster and soy sauces. Add fish. Add palm oil and paprika. Stir.
- Fry cashews in oil in a frying pan until golden brown. Add sweet pepper. Sauté for 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
- Place chicken, garlic, and onion in the pan. Pour in the filling and 2-3 tablespoons of boiled hot water. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add sautéed peppers and cashew nuts. Don't forget to sprinkle with herbs. Stir. Warm up in literally less than a minute.
- Remove from heat.
Chicken with cashew nuts is a complete second course. The delicacy is eaten without a side dish or with rice.
Thai chicken with noodles
The traditional side dish in Thai recipes is usually noodles or rice. The noodles are homemade egg or rice. At home, we suggest not cooking noodles, but replacing them with a store-bought version.5
This recipe Thai cashew chicken, captivated me with its simplicity and unusually pleasant combination of flavors that created absolutely! It is slightly different from the Chinese recipe. First of all, it does not contain soy sauce and ginger. This is a simpler recipe, but no less exotic and tasty for the Russian table.
Tender chicken fillet, fried nuts and vegetables in aromatic sauce according to a Thai recipe! An excellent option for a varied and rich holiday table.
In the original, chicken with cashews is quite a spicy product, but you can adjust the spiciness at your own discretion, right up to the complete elimination of all spiciness.
Cooking chicken
First, take the chicken fillet, wash it, dry it with a paper towel and cut it into pieces of 2 - 3 centimeters. Then put these in a heated frying pan with olive oil, add salt, a pinch of curry and fry over high heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Three - red, yellow and green, cleared of seeds and stalks, washed, cut into cubes of about 2 centimeters and placed in a frying pan along with the onion. Of course, you can take fruits of the same color, but then the appearance of the finished dish will deteriorate.
Add to the previous ingredients 2 teaspoons of sugar, salt to taste, 4 cloves of chopped garlic, a couple of pinches of curry, red to taste, 2 teaspoons of lime juice or lemon juice, and simmer over high heat for another 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
We eat this dish without it as a hot appetizer.. and above all in China, it is served with rice. Bon appetit!
Recipe Ingredients
- Chicken fillet - 1 kilogram;
- Cashew nuts - 200 - 300 grams;
- Onions - 2 pieces;
- Bell pepper (red, yellow, green) - 1 piece each;
- Garlic - 4 cloves;
- Kari - 1/2 teaspoon;
- Lime or lemon juice - 2 teaspoons;
- Salt and red hot pepper to taste;
- Olive oil 50 - 100 milliliters.
- Classic Thai cashew chicken recipe
Today, when beauty and health are almost a cult, proper nutrition has become the most popular system that many people adhere to. Nuts and meat are the basis of a healthy diet, so Thai cashew chicken will perfectly complement healthy recipes, and besides, it’s not at all difficult to prepare it yourself. But before you eat or cook something new, you need to calculate the nutritional value, in our case, the calorie content of the dish is 137 kcal, proteins 8 grams, fats 8 grams and carbohydrates 7 grams.
Only the Thais are able to successfully and truly tasty combine in their original recipes seemingly absolutely incompatible tastes, such as sweetness, acidity and spiciness in Thai chicken with nuts.
Thai chicken, or as it is called in Thailand - Gai Pad Med Mamuang, like any traditional Asian treat, is replete with spices and sauces that give the dish a simply indescribable aroma and incomparable taste.
Chicken with cashews: preparatory stage
- Cashews for cooking should be taken raw, unsalted and preferably fresh. But if you can’t find other cashews besides “beer nuts,” then these will do. The main condition is no seasonings other than salt.
- Chili peppers should be hot and fresh. But if you can’t eat too spicy food, then you can replace the chili with dried sweet pods, which will only add the desired aroma to the dish, but not “pepperiness”.
- It will be great if you find palm sugar for the recipe, but if you don’t have it, you can replace it with cane sugar, or, at worst, with simple refined sugar.
- If you want to add a Chinese touch to the dish, you can add shiitake mushrooms, which are used in a similar Chinese dish called Kung Pao Chicken.
- Thai chicken contains three types of sauce: regular soy sauce, fish sauce and oyster sauce.
- Oyster sauce is very tasty, but you need to choose a good quality product that is dark in color and thick. “Cheap” oyster sauce has a reddish tint and frankly smells of ketchup and synthetic flavors.
- Fish sauce has a very repulsive smell in its pure form, but its aroma is absolutely not noticeable in dishes. And fish sauce is added to all Thai dishes as a natural flavor enhancer, which it does an excellent job of.
Ingredients
- Chicken fillet 0.3 kg
- Cashew nuts 0.1 kg
- Garlic cloves 4 pcs
- White or red onion 1 piece
- Green onion 30-40 g
- Ground hot chili pepper 1/2 tsp.
- Dried sweet chili pepper 4 pods
- bell pepper 1 piece
- Oyster sauce 30-40 ml
- Soy sauce 5 ml
- Fish sauce 5 ml
- Olive oil 1 shot glass
- Palm or regular sugar 15-20 g
- Purified water 30-50 ml
How to make Thai chicken with cashews
- Cut the chicken fillet into short pieces, the size of cashews.
- We cut the bell pepper into the same pieces.
- Crush the garlic flat with a knife and then chop it into small cubes.
- Cut the onion hand into 2 halves across the tail and then cut thinly across the rings into strips.
- You don’t have to chop the green onion too much. We cut it arbitrarily, the main thing is not too large (3-4 cm) and it is advisable to choose thinner onion arrows.
- For dressing, all available sauces, a spoonful of chili pepper and granulated sugar should be mixed in a small cup.
- Let's start cooking. Pour oil into a frying pan with a narrow bottom, like a wok, and heat it thoroughly. Then pour cashews into a container and fry the nuts, stirring constantly until golden. Transfer the finished nuts to a paper napkin.
- Place the dried sweet chili peppers in the oil that remains in the pan and fry them over medium heat until they swell and imbue the oil with their aroma. Remove the chili onto a napkin. Please note that the peppers may burst and splatter with hot oil, so be careful when frying them!
- In the vacated frying pan in the same oil, first fry the garlic for literally half a minute, then increase the heat under the wok and pour the chicken slices with onion straws into the oil. Over high heat, stirring vigorously, fry all ingredients for 5-7 minutes until the chicken turns white.
- Then pour 30 ml of water into the frying pan, along with the sauce prepared in advance, and mix everything thoroughly.
- Next, transfer the bell pepper into the container, roast for a couple of minutes, and then add the nuts and green onions, mix everything again and remove the wok from the heat.
"Gai Pad Med Mamuang" European style
This step-by-step recipe can be considered an adaptation of the original Thai chicken with cashews to suit the tastes and stomachs of Europeans, because Thai food is famous for its particular spiciness and abundance of specific additives that not everyone likes. However, this simpler recipe fully conveys the unique taste of the dish.
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar – 7 g;
- Chicken meat – 200 g;
- Bell peppers – 2 fruits;
- Rice vinegar – 15-20 ml;
- Hot chili pod – 1 piece;
- Cashew nuts – 0.1 kg;
- Soy sauce – 15-20 ml;
- Small garlic head – 1 piece;
- Olive oil – 30-35 ml;
- Onion head – 1 piece;
- Drinking water – 0.1 l.
How to cook Thai chicken with cashews
- Pour a little vegetable oil into the frying pan, wait until the oil warms up, and pour the nuts into the container, fry them for 10 minutes until golden brown and remove them to a plate.
- In the same oil, fry the chili pepper cut into 3 pieces over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, then take it out and throw it away.
- Meanwhile, cut the chicken and bell pepper into cubes according to the size of the nuts.
- Chop the onion into thin half rings, garlic into slices.
- Now add the garlic to the oil. After 1 minute, put the chicken and onions into the frying pan and fry everything together for 10 minutes.
- Mix vinegar with soy sauce and granulated sugar in a small cup and pour into the chicken, and also add water. Mix everything.
- Pour bell pepper into a container, cook it with all other ingredients for 3 minutes, and then add nuts to the dish.
- After mixing everything, wait 1 minute and turn off the heat.
It doesn’t matter how exactly the chicken with cashews is prepared in Thai, according to a classic authentic recipe or a European adaptation, the side dish for this national Asian treat remains the same for all times - boiled, steamed rice or cooked with vegetables.
