Fried chicken with cashew nuts (Gai Pat Met Mamuang)

It looks like Fried chicken with cashew nuts is the worlds most favorite Thai food, My mother in law who is Canadian, also fell in love with this dish, I tried to cook it many times with a bit different ingredients for better taste for my family, And here is it a tasty yummy delicious Gai Pat Met Mamuang recipe.

Ingredients

300 grams chicken cut into the bite-size pieces

1 tablespoon garlic minced

half red sweet pepper diced

half yellow sweet pepper diced

half onion diced

1 cup water chestnut in can sliced
1 cup roasted and unsalted whole cashew nuts

1/4 cup green onion cut into 1 inch. pieces for garnish

2-3 dried new Mexico chili toasted for garnish

Seasoning ingredients

1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. soy sauce

1 tbsp. brown or palm sugar

1/4 cup oyster sauce

1/4 cup chili paste with soya bean oil

1/4 cup water

Marinade Ingredients

1 tsp. chicken broth mix powder

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp. corn starch

1 cup vegetable oil for deep frying

How to toast dried new mexico chili, Heat frying pan on medium high heat, Cut up new mexico chili into 1.5 cm pieces, Place into a hot pan keep stiring for 3 minutes, Remove onto a plate for garnish.

directions, In a small mixing bowl place the chicken, soy sauce and corn starch, mix well, Let it soak for about 15 minutes.
Preheat 1 cup vegetable oil in a wok on medium high heat when its very hot add chicken, deep fry about 5 minutes or until the chicken turns light blown, Remove from heat drain the oil, Set aside.

Heat olive oil in large frying pan,on med heat place garlic stir-fry until fragrant add chili paste with soya bean oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar add water, Stir well mixing all the inrgedients thoroughly and allow to simmer 2 more minutes.
Add onion, red and yellow pepper, water chestnut, Stir fried until onion is almost cook through, Add fried chicken, Keep stirring for 2 minutes, Remove from heat.
Garnish with green onion and dried new Mexico chili toasted.

The recipe is for 3 servings.