Amazing Gluten Free Chinese Cashew Chicken Stir Fry

    Cashew chicken was one of my favorite at Chinese restaurants. It was one of those Chinese dishes I had to figure out how to make gluten free.This recipe is a combination of an Internet search and one of the recipes from my cookbook.

 I made this recipe a few weeks ago for a Friday night dinner, and there were four Chinese college students present. They said that although it's an American version of a Chinese classic, it was still good. 

Amazing Gluten Free Cashew Chicken Stir Fry 
Serves 6-8 

 1. Prepare chicken:  Rinse and cut 2 chicken breasts into bite size pieces.  Mix with 1 T of cornstarch/tapioca starch and put in a small bowl.  Put in the  fridge until ready to use.

2.  Make stir-fry sauce - In a medium sized bowl put: 
(1)  2 cups of chicken broth

(2) 1/4 cup gluten free hoisin sauce,  4 T gluten free tamari, 2 t salt, 1 t black pepper, and 2T of cornstarch.  Set aside for later.

 3.  Prepare veggies -  Chop up into small pieces:
(1)  1 1/4  cups of diced celery
(2)   ¾ cup of green onions - cut the bottoms and put in separate dish and cut the green stems in 1" pieces
(3)  1 large green or red pepper diced
(4)   Dice 8 oz can of water chestnuts.
(5)  2 t of minced garlic

4.  Stir Fry chicken:  Put 2 T of coconut oil into a wok or large stainless skillet and get it warm, then add chicken and stir fry until done.  Set chicken aside in a covered dish. 

5. Stir fry veggies:  Add an additional tablespoon of oil  and put the green onion bottoms, minced garlic and 1/2 t of red pepper flakes into the skillet and stir fry for 30 seconds.  Then add the  vegetables and stir-fry over medium-high heat for 2-3 minutes.
   

6. Add the stir-fry sauce:  Then add the sauce stirring constantly, and add back the chicken and cook over medium-high heat until thickened about another 2 minutes.  Stir in  1 cup of roasted cashews and the green onion stems.  Taste and adjust any seasonings.  

Serve over rice.

Other Chinese recipes on this blog:
Note about Internet recipes:  For the past 5 years we've hosted international students. Whenever I've made something, they have tasted it, and given me recommendations to make it taste more authentic.  Most of these Internet recipes have been tweaked by their suggestions.

BEEF RECIPES:
Delicious Gluten Free Beef Broccoli Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
The Best Gluten Free Mongolian Beef Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Ginger Beef Stir Fry (Modification of Internet recipe)

CHICKEN RECIPES:
Gluten Free Chinese Almond Chicken Stir Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)
Amazing Gluten Free Chinese Cashew Chicken Stir Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Garlic Chicken Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Spicy Kung Pao Chicken Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Authentic Chinese BBQ Chicken  (From my Bible Study friend Rose)
Rose's Chinese Yellow Curry with Chicken & Vegetables  (From my Bible Study friend Rose)
Gluten Free Chinese - Fantastic Soy Sauce Chicken  (Modification of Internet recipe)

TOFU RECIPES:
Tofu & Vegetable Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Orange "Beef" Tofu Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)

FISH RECIPES:
Steamed Scallion Ginger Fish with Stir-Fried Bok Choy  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Fantastic Mahi & Vegetable Stir Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)

NOODLES & RICE:
Gluten Free Chinese Fried Rice    (From my Come & Dine Cookbook)
Fantastic Mahi & Vegetable Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
The Cheung's Gluten Free Chow Mien  (My Bible study friend Rose taught me this)

SOUP RECIPES:
Chinese Chicken Soups  - Bok choy chicken, chicken & spinach, and chicken & cabbage
Gluten Free Chinese Hot Pot  (Combination of Internet & Yingying a student from China)
Chinese Egg Drop Soup   (From my Syre School Cookbook)

SALAD RECIPES
Gluten Free Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Rose's Refreshing Cucumber Salad  (From a Bible study friend)
Chinese Mandarin Salad & Thai Peanut Dressing   (Dressing is from my friend Judi)