Chicken and Vegetable Stir-fry
Chicken and vegetable stir-fry with asparagus, paprika and cashew from Spoonsparrow is a quick dinner during asparagus season.
Ingredients
- 300 g green asparagus
- 3 spring onions
- 1 small red bell pepper
- 1 clove of garlic
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp coconut blossom sugar
- 2 tbsp oil
- 200 g Chicken breast fillet
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 dried red chili
- 25 g cashews
Instructions
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1.
Clean and wash the asparagus. Trim the woody ends. Cut the spears into diagonal pieces (4 cm long). Clean, wash and cut the spring onions into 3 cm pieces.
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2.
Quarter, deseed, wash and slice the bell pepper into thin strips. Peel the garlic and press it into a bowl. Add soy sauce and coconut blossom sugar, mix everything and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
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3.
Rinse the chicken fillet, pat dry, slice into strips, salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a wok (or pan) over high heat. Quickly brown the chicken strips in the oil, stirring constantly. Remove and drain the oil.
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4.
Add the prepared vegetables to the wok and fry over high heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly to ensure everything cooks evenly (Asians call this technique translated as "stir-frying").
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5.
Add the garlic-soy sauce mixture to the vegetables in the wok. Bring to a boil and cook for about 1 minute.
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6.
Crumble the chili pepper with your fingers. Add it with the cashews and chicken strips to the wok, and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Serve the chicken and vegetable stir-fry with rice as desired.