Here’s how to cook “Diced Chicken with Cashew Nuts”
Ingredients:
2/3 cup deboned chicken, diced ground pepper to season
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp Rhum
1 tsp cornstarch
2 tbsp peanut oil or ordinary oil
1 tbsp garlic, minced
1 tbsp ginger, minced Seasoned Broth:
1 cup chicken broth
1 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce
2 tsp cornstarch
1/2 cup chicharo
1/2 cup sweet peas
1/2 cupp toasted cashew halves
Drops of sesame oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Combine ingredients for the chicken mixture. Let stand for several minutes. Sauté the garlic and ginger in oil. Add the chicken mixture and stir-fry until chicken is half-cooked. Combine broth, sugar, Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce, cornstarch and pour into chicken mixture. Continue cooking until chicken is tender. Add the vegetables, cashew, and drops of sesame oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve hot.
For the pumping pickle solution:
1 tbsp. salt, refined
½ tsp. curing salt
1 tbsp. sugar, refined
1 tsp. phosphate
¼ tsp. vitamin C
1 tbsp. hamspice
1 tbsp. isolate
1 tsp. carageenan
½ cup water, chilled
For the dry cure mixture:
2 tbsps. salt, refined
4 tbsps. sugar, refined
¼ tbsp. phosphate
¼ tsp. Vitamin C
2 cups brown sugar
1 to 2 cups pineapple juice or 1 bottle 7-up
½ cup anisado wine
2 to 3 pcs. clavo de comer (clovels)
Few strands dried oregano
3 pcs. bay leaves (laurel)
For the thick syrup:
Bring to a boil the following ingredients
1 cup cooking solution
2 cups brown sugar
¼ cup pineapple juice
½ tsp. carageenan, dissolved in ¼ cup water
2 tbsps. soy sauce
Directions:
* Procedure for pumping pickle solution: dissolved first in chilled water and strain before adding to other ingredients.
* These two ingredients (isolate and carageenan) minimize shrinkage in ham and promote better sliceability.
* Cooking ingredients for the chicken ham: Put 2 to 3 cups of water to chicken and add the following ingredients.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp garlic, crushed
1 pc onion, sliced
1 pc ginger, small, sliced
1 pc tomato, sliced
3 cups chicken, cut into serving pieces
1 tbsp patis (fish sauce)
3 cups water
2 tbsp Mama Sita’s Sinigang (Tamarind Seasoning) Mix
1 cup sitaw (long beans)
1 pc sili (long green pepper)
Directions:
Fry garlic in cooking oil. Add the onion, ginger, and tomato. Add the chicken, stir-fry, and season with fish sauce. When the chicken is almost done, add water and bring to a boil. Add Mama Sita’s Sinigang (Tamarind Seasoning) Mix, long beans, and long green pepper. Continue cooking until the vegetables are ready. Serve with fish sauce.
- Combine the juices of lemon & lime, divide in 2 equal parts.
- Marinate chicken overnight in salt, lemon grass, garlic, half lime & lemon juice mixture.
- Mix marinade with the water that has been used to soak the annato seeds & margarine.
- Pour the mixture in a saucepan, bring to a rolling boil for 5 to 10 mins.
- Adjust seasoning with salt & pepper flakes if desired.
- Barbecue chicken over hot coals or grill brushing it with the prepared mixture, cook to desired doneness.