You Can Cook Too 37 - Burmese chicken and cashew nuts

Patricia shows you how to make Burmese chicken, a sweet and spicy chicken dish that is perfect for eating alone or for a dinner party.

She pairs it with Frank Sinatra's version of the Road to Mandalay.

 

Ingredients
2 large chicken breasts cut in strips
1-2 red chillis sliced and finely chopped
2 tabsps. Oyster sauce
1 tabsp. Dark brown sugar
12 ozs. (350 gms) carrots thinly sliced
2 ins piece ginger sliced
2 large cloves garlic
3 ozs. unsalted cashew nuts
1 teasp. tumeric
Bunch coriander leaves
Groundnut oil

Instructions
Put chicken, chillis, sugar and half oyster sauce into a bowl and leave to marinade
Add chopped garlic, ginger, turmeric and cashews to the hot oil and stir for a few
minutes. Then add the carrots and stir round. Leave to cook for a few minutes.
Remove and put to one side. Add the chicken mixture to the pan and cook until
chicken cooked right through. Combine with the carrot mix and reheat. Pour over the
remaining oyster sauce and add the coriander leaves. Serve immediately with
noodles.