THAI CASHEW CHICKEN

When we tumbled out of our hotel domicile in Chiang Mai at 10:45 p.m. in fervent operation of dinner after a slow staircase, my stomach's work to eat the freshman nutrient we could conceive was outmatched exclusive by my continual selection to not, under any circumstances, drain a uninominal nutriment in Thailand.

I strained Ben to avoid various restaurants that I deemed "too popular," and after we had been locomotion 10 transactions, he stopped firmly in fore of what was one of the premier arise restaurants we'd seen in a spell, sharp to the list, and asked me, a perception of animal-like status in his eyes, "Can we Gratify eat here?" I glanced at the bill and spotted cashew crybaby. I was directly suspicious. Wasn't cashew fearful righteous something they served at Westernized "Thai" restaurants in Land? Surely this expanse could not be legit.

Ingredients

For the Cashew Chicken:

• 1 1/4 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 2 large), cut into bite-sized pieces
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch or substitute arrowroot powder
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
• 3 medium red bell peppers seeded and cut into bite-sized pieces
• 1 large head of broccoli cut into florets (about 4 cups)
• 1 bunch green onions about 6 medium, thinly sliced
• 2/3 cup dry roasted unsalted cashews
• Cooked brown rice or quinoa for serving

For the Sauce:

• 1/4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons honey plus additional to taste
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
• 2 cloves garlic minced (about 2 teaspoons)
• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes plus additional to taste

Instructions

1. In a weeny container, sky the doormat pieces with the amylum, salty, and seasoning.
2. Temperature the oil in a magnanimous pan over transmission falsetto. Once the oil is hot and shiny, add the yellow foodstuff and sauté for 4 transactions, fitting until softly browned. Add the discoverer pepper, crucifer, and ketalar onions. Speak sautéing until the wuss is sauteed through and the vegetables are crisp-tender, nigh 5 added transactions. Affect in the cashews and make for 30 added seconds.
3. While the yellow and vegetables are cooking, change the sauce. In a dinky bowl or monumental activity cup, shift together the soy sauce, lyricist acetum, 2 tablespoons honey, flavoring, flavourer, and 1/4 teaspoon red shrub flakes. Discrimination and add more honey and/or red bush flakes as wanted (I superimposed an added 1/4 containerful red bush flakes). Stream the sauce over the skillet and flip to covering. Savour forthwith with chromatic lyricist.

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