Leong's Cashew Chicken
Leong's Cashew Chicken — a chicken recipe, 12 ingredients.
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Ingredients
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- 2 medium chicken breasts
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Salt (to taste)
- Cashews, optionally chopped
- Green onions, chopped
- 1 can chicken broth
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 2 Tbsp cold water
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
Make it lactose-friendly
- 1 cup milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
Steps
- Debone and cut chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces.
- Beat eggs and mix with milk.
- Combine flour and salt.
- Dip breasts into egg/milk combination, then into flour.
- Deep fry the chicken until golden and cooked through.
- For the sauce, heat broth in a saucepan on low to medium heat.
- Make a cornstarch slurry with the cornstarch and cold water. Set aside.
- Add oyster sauce and soy sauce to the broth. Continue heating the sauce.
- Add the cornstarch slurry as needed to thicken the sauce until it reaches the desired consistency.
- Serve chicken on fried rice, cover liberally with sauce, and garnish with cashews and green onions.
Source
Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0