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Easy and healthy chicken cashew stirfry bowl with healthy veges and rice.
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Cashew Nut Chicken

Healthy, quick and on the table in 20 minutes, this cashew nut chicken is perfect to have on your list for quick weeknight meals.  Full of punchy flavour, simple ingredients, and lightly roasted cashews to top it off.
Course Dinner
Cuisine Thai
Keyword cashew nut chicken, chicken cashew stirfry
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 2 people
Calories 400kcal
Author Kim

Ingredients

  • 300 grams / 10 oz. Chicken fillet (thinly sliced)
  • 2 cloves Crushed garlic (or 2 teaspoons garlic from a jar)
  • 1 teaspoon Peanut Oil
  • 1 medium Chilli
  • 3 medium button mushrooms
  • 1 medium red onion
  • ½ medium Zucchini
  • ½ red capsicum
  • 10 Green beans
  • 1 chicken stock cube or 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder
  • 1 tablespoon Light Soy or Tamari (see Note 1)
  • 1 tablespoon Fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Oyster Sauce
  • 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon Granulated Stevia, that measures like sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons Unsalted Cashews, lightly roasted
  • 2 tablespoons Cornflour
  • 1 tablespoon Water
  • ½ cup cooked Jasmine rice

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 180 degrees
  • Place cashews onto an oven proof tray and heat for a few minutes.
  • Heat wok with peanut oil on high
  • Add chicken, garlic and chilli and brown off
  • Once cooked, take the chicken out of the wok and put in a separate bowl whilst the veges are cooking
  • Add veges to the wok and stirfry for 3 minutes
  • Add the stock cube, soy, fish sauce, oyster sauce, lemon juice and stevia and stir through for a minute or two
  • Add the chicken back into the work and stir through
  • In a small jug mix the cornflour with the water and add to the wok to thicken the sauce. Stir through. Add the cashews and stir through.
  • Remove from heat and serve with rice and a wedge of lime.

Notes

  1. Tamari is a form of soy sauce that is a better option generally as it contains lower levels of added sugar than Light Soy.  It is usually found in the health food aisle of most supermarkets.
  2. The granulated sweetener I use is Natvia Stevia Sweetener.  Natvia Stevia Sweetener is a 100% natural sweetener and has 97% fewer calories than sugar.  Its fructose free, low carb and isn’t going to rot your teeth!   I wrote a post about it here.

Nutrition

Calories: 400kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 40g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 11g