Bites Fil Beit: Ferakh we Kashyoo – Chicken with Cashew Nuts

Iman Adel Abdel-Fattah
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Bites Fil BeitIngredients

  • ½ kg chicken breast without skin, cut into pieces – so-door fe-rakh
  • 2/3 cup cashew nuts, unsalted – ka-shyoo
  • ¼ kg fresh broccoli – bro-ko-ly
  • 1 red pepper, thinly sliced – fel-fel ah-mar
  • 1 medium onion, finely sliced – ba-sal
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil – zeit

 

Ingredients for the sauce

 

1 tablespoon soy sauce –so-ya sauce

2 teaspoons vinegar – khal

juice of 1 small orange – a-seer bor-too-an

1 teaspoon brown sugar – sok-kar bon-ni

2 teaspoons corn flour – corn flour
Directions

  • Add all the ingredients of the sauce together in a bowl and mix well until the corn flour is dissolved.
  • Heat the vegetable oil in a non-stick pan and sauté the cashews until light brown. Remove and set aside in a bowl.
  • In the same pan, stir-fry the onions over a high heat until tender and golden. Remove from heat and add the onions to the bowl containing the cashews.
  • Stir fry the chicken breasts in the same pan for a few minutes until they change color. Add the broccoli and the red pepper. Cook until vegetables are soft but still crisp.
  • Pour the sauce over the chicken and vegetables and stir for a few minutes until it thickens. Add the onions and cashews and stir for a minute before turning off the heat.
  • Serve warm with white rice.
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