Kai Med Ma Muang 

(Chicken with Cashew Nuts) 

     Pardon the pun, but tourists go nuts for this stir fried dish. Perhaps it's the wildly contrasting textures of a dish that saut's chicken alongside roasted cashews, sweet soy sauce, onions, chilies, pepper, carrot and mushrooms. Perhaps it's the sweetening dash of honey that appeals. Do you really care? The important thing is that this dish works: it's simple but scrumptious, a little bit tame and yet still totally Thai.

Ingredients

• 1 large clove of garlic
• 225g chicken filet cubes
• 3 spring onions
• 1 red paprika
• 150g salted cashew nuts
• 4 carrots
• 3 teaspoons of dried chili flakes
• 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
• 250ml hot water with 1 chicken stock cube
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 125g thai rice
• wok oil

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