Cashew Chicken by:Hannah

Ingredients:
1 boneless & skinless chicken breast, about 10 oz. (cut into small cubes)

1/2 cup cashew nuts

1-2 cups sugar snap peas

5 slices ginger
2 cloves minced garlic
1/4 onion (cut into small square pieces)
2 stocks celery (cut diagonally)

Sauce:

1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce

1/4 teaspoon soy sauce

3 tablespoons water

3 dashes white pepper powder or black pepper

1 teaspoon sugar

1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
Salt to taste

directions:

-Mix the sauce together and set aside.
-Heat up a wok with 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and stir-fry the chicken meat until the color turns white or half-cooked. Dish out and set aside.
-Add another 1 tablespoon of cooking oil into the wok and add in the ginger slices, garlic, snow peas, and onions.
-Stir-fry until you smell the onion and add the chicken meat back in.
-Add in the cashew nuts and do a few quick stirs.
-Add in the sauce and stir continuously until the chicken meat is cooked and well coated with the sauce.

-Add salt to taste, dish out and serve the Cashew Chicken hot with steamed white rice.

Personal comments:

I love this. it's just as good as a chines restaurant but after I'm full i don't have to sit in a car for an hour to get home. I give this one a 5 out of 5 stars!

Spicy Basil Chicken Stir Fry by: hannah

Spicy Basil Chicken Stir Fry by: hannah

4 chicken breast (cut into cubes)
½ cup soy sauce
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tsp white sugar
6 garlic cloves- minced
1-2 serrano pepper- minced
1 red pepper- thinly sliced
1 large onion- sliced
basil leafs finely chopped
1 tsp corn starch(mix w/ water or soy sauce before adding to heat.)
Cashew nuts (add right before serving)
1 tsp pepper
12 oz package stir fry noodles
1 can water chestnuts
green onion- chopped

mix together soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar.

Heat a pan w/ a little oil to a medium heat. Add garlic and serrano pepper- stir. Add chicken, bell peppers & onion stir and add corn starch stir quickly. And add soy sauce, oyster sauce mix to heat and stir vigorously. Cook still chicken in no longer pink then raise heat and add noodles. Add basil leafs and water chestnuts let set for 5 min. stirring occasional. Remove from heat and add cashew nuts.

Sprinkle green onions on your place when serving.

cook time 20 min

Personal Comments:

I made this quite spicy and i loved it that way. I thought the dishes flavor had alot of color so i would give this dish a 4 out of 5 stars!