Tumis Ayam Mete Thailand

Recipe video above. Crunchy and creamy cashews are the star in this popular Thai chicken stir fry! Tossed with a bold and savoury Thai stir fry sauce, make this as spicy as you want – or not at all.Thai Cashew Chicken is a dry-style stir fry so there's not a ton of sauce like with Chinese Cashe

⏱ 18 min 🔨 Prep 10min 🔥 Cook 8min 📊 Easy 🍽 2 servings ⭐ 5.0 (119) 👁 9
Tumis Ayam Mete Thailand

Ingredients

2 servings

Instructions

  1. Sauce: Mix all the Sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
  2. Cook cashews: Heat oil over medium heat in a wok or large skillet. Add cashews and cook for 5 minutes until they become a dark golden colour and crunchy (yep, you might have to eat one to check!). Remove from skillet with a slotted spoon.
  3. Garlic & onion: Turn heat up to high. Add garlic and onion. Cook for 30 seconds.
  4. Chicken: Add chicken. Cook for 1 minute until the outside changes from pink to white.
  5. White part of green onion & chilli: Add white part of green onions and chilli. Cook for 1 minute until chicken is just cooked through.
  6. Add Sauce: Cook for 1 minute until it reduces down to a syrup, coating the chicken nicely.
  7. Green onion & cashews: Add green part of green onions and cashews. Toss for 30 seconds.
  8. Serve: Transfer to serving dish. Serve with jasmine rice, or other rice of choice, garnished with extra red chilli (if you can handle the heat!).
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Nutrition per serving

Protein26g
Carbs17g
Fat32g
454kcal
26gProtein
17gCarbs
32gFat

💰 Cost Estimate

Total Ingredients
$427.00
Per Serving
$214.00/serving
🏠 Savings
~$854.00 vs buying!
📋 Price Breakdown (79% ingredients detected)
IngredientAmountSubtotal
peanut oil 2 tbsp $8.00
raw cashews 0.5 cup -
arlic clove 1 g $1.00
onion 0.5 $25.00
/7oz chicken thighs 200 g $198.00
reen onions 2 g $1.00
red cayenne pepper 0.5 $147.00
oyster sauce 1 tbsp $20.00
dark soy sauce 1 tsp $5.00
fish sauce 2 tsp $22.00
white sugar 1 tsp -
water 3 tbsp -
Red chilli - -
Jasmine rice - -

*Estimated market prices, may vary by region

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Tumis Ayam Mete Thailand

Ingredients:
  • 2 tbsp peanut oil ((or canola or vegetable oil))
  • 1/2 cup raw cashews (, unsalted (Note 1 for roasted))
  • 1 g arlic clove (, finely minced)
  • 1/2 onion ((brown, yellow, or white), cut into thin wedges)
  • 200 g /7oz chicken thighs (, skinless and boneless, sliced into 1cm / 1/3" thin strips (Note 2))
  • 2 g reen onions (, cut into 2.5cm / 1” lengths, white part separated from green part)
  • 1/2 red cayenne pepper (, deseeded and finely sliced on the diagonal (omit or reduce if preferred) (Note 3))
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce ((Note 4))
  • 1 tsp dark soy sauce ((Note 5))
  • 2 tsp fish sauce ((Note 6))
  • 1 tsp white sugar
  • 3 tbsp water
  • Red chilli (, finely sliced (optional garnish))
  • Jasmine rice (, for serving (or other rice of choice))

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