Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Thai-Style Cashew Chicken

Thai-style chicken stir fry with layers of smokey, spicy and savoury flavours

Cuisine

Time

35 mins mins

Servings

3 people people

Ingredients

5-6 cloves garlic, whole slowly stir fried
3-4 chicken thighs, sliced in chunks
4-5 spring onions
Handful flowering Chinese chives (the ones with the buds)
2 handfuls cashew nuts
10 dried red chillies
1-2 Thai birdseye chillies
1 large red chilli
Coriander to garnish

THE MARINADE

½ tsp chilli powder
1 tbsp oyster sauce
½ tbsp fish sauce

The Sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 ½ tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp palm sugar
½ ladle chicken stock / water
½ tsp dark soy sauce

Method

• Add oil to the wok and get it to a medm to low heat. Slowly cook the garlic cloves whole for five to six minutes. While that is sizzling away, chop up the base vegetables. Take the end off the spring onions and sear for a bit of garnish, and roughly chop the greens into lengths. Place at the top of the wok clock. Soak the dry red chillies, split the Thai birdseye chillies, and chop the large red chili into rings for garnish. Place all the chillies second on the wok clock. Take the dry ends off the flowering chives and cut into lengths. Place third on the wok clock. Chop the chicken into chunks.

MARINADE THE CHICKEN

• Add the marinade to the chicken and massage in.