Kai phat met mamuang, stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts and dried chili peppers

Kai phat met mamuang, chicken stir-fried with cashews and dried chilies

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The classic Thai dish: fried cashew nuts and dried chili peppers, stir-fried chicken, then combined with garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sugar, and f…

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“Met mamuang” refers to cashew nuts. The key is not to fry either the walnuts or the chili peppers for too long, as this can make them bitter.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total35 min
  • DifficultyMedium
  • Cooking methodstove
  • Low lactose

Ingredients

2 people
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Directions

  1. Roast the cashew nuts over medium heat until they are lightly golden, then drain them.
  2. Chop the hot peppers into pieces, remove the seeds, and quickly fry them: remove them as soon as they start to turn red.
  3. In the meantime, heat the oil in a pan and cook the chicken until it is browned on all sides.
  4. Heat the garlic in a small amount of oil.
  5. Add the chicken, cashews, sauces, pepper, and sugar, and stir-fry.
  6. Taste (the dish should be quite salty), add the chives and chili peppers, and mix well. ≈ 4 min

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 300 g of chicken
  • 200 g of cashew nuts
  • 20 dried red chili peppers
  • 1 tablespoon of chopped garlic
  • oil, for deep frying
  • ½ cup of chopped chives
  • 3 tablespoons of seasoning sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon of pepper
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar

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