Recipe for Chicken with Cashew Nuts (Oriental Cooking) 
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Yield:
6 Servings
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
3/4 lb Fresh chicken meat - diced
1/2 cup Unsalted roasted cashew nuts
1 cup Diced Bok Choy stalks -or celery
1/2 cup Diced bamboo shoots
1/2 cup Diced water chestnuts - fresh or can
1 cup Diced sweet green pepper
1 cup Diced sweet red pepper - or carrots
1 tsp Minced fresh garlic root
1 tsp Minced garlic
1 tbl Hoisin sauce
1/2 tbl Bean sauce
1 tsp Chili sauce ( optional) (up to 2)
4 tbl Cooking oil
1/4 cup Water or chicken stock
1 tsp Sesame oil or hot sesame oil ( spicy)
2 tsp Cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon cold water
----------------- MARINATE INGREDIENTS ----------------
1 tbl Thin soy sauce
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Wine
2 tsp Cornstarch
Instructions:
Instructions: About 6 people

1. Heat wok over high heat until hot (omit preheating if your wok is teflon coated). Put in 2 tablespoons cooking oil, add chicken, stir fry for 2 minutes or until chicken is brown, remove and set aside.

2.Put 2 tablespoons cooking oil in hot wok, put in ginger,garlic, Hoisin sauce, and bean sauce. Then put in all the diced vegetables. Stir fry for 1 minute. Pour in 1/4 cup of water or chicken stock, cover and cook for 2 minutes.

3. Put in the cooked chicken and sesame oil, Stir in cornstarch to thicken.

Remove to a serving plate. Sprinkle roasted cashew nuts on top. Serve hot.

My notes: Ingredients in Hoisin Sauce : sugar, vinegar, soy bean, water, salt, wheat flour, garlic, sesame seed, chili, spices and artificial color

(fd&c red#4) It is bottled in Hong Kong.

If anyone is still interested in Oriental recipes I have the recipe for: Beef Lo Mein, Steak with Onion, Chicken fried Rice, and Sweet and Sour Soup. Let me know.

Ruth, who will be going again to Knoxville TN. again this weekend for a taping of Club Dance. Starting on Sept. 13 we can be seen on TNN-( weekdays. My husband is very tall, and I am short and somewhat dumpy. We both have grey hair, and he has a grey beard. Perhaps you can find us in the crowd of dancers.

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