Thai Style Chicken and Mushroom in Oyster Sauce
Serves 4 -10 mins prep / 10 mins cooking

This is a really tasty dish and a favourite in our house. It's so quick and easy and will blow away anything you can buy in any takeaway in Barnsley GUARANTEED!
Ingredients
400g - Chicken breast (chopped)
50g - Raw unsalted cashew nuts (dry fried / slightly browned)*
6 - Spring onions (scallions (white bit) finely chopped, rest chopped into 1 inch lengths)
1 tsp - Dried red chilies (de-seeded and chopped)
4 - Cloves of garlic
2 tbsp - Oyster sauce
2 tbsp - Good quality soy sauce
2 tsp - White sugar
4 tbsp - Veg oil
4-8 - Mushrooms
- half a small tin of water chestnuts*
200g - of fresh green beans*
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Method
- Chop and prep all ingredients and get your Thai Jasmine or brown rice cooking first as you want to serve this tasty dish straight away.
- Heat 2 tbsp of the veg oil on a medium heat in a wok. Add the chopped dried chilies, Fry for 1 min.
- Add the rest of the oil, then the garlic and scallions. Fry for 1 more min.
- Add optional green beans now, then the chopped chicken and stir.
- Add the soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and stir for 2 mins.
- Add the optional water chestnuts, mushrooms and 4 tbsp of water.
- When the chicken is cooked through add the longer pieces of spring onion, cashew nuts and serve with fluffy Thai Jasmine rice.
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Home Made Chinese Spring Rolls – Makes 25
20 mins prep / 10 mins cooking
You can make these as vegetarian by leaving out the pork and prawns and adding more bamboo shoots and bean sprouts. They make a great addition to any party platter or are perfect as a fresh, tasty starter.
Ingredients:
- 6/8 - dried Shitake mushrooms (soaked in water for 20 mins)
- 1 tbsp – veg oil (for shallow frying)
- 225g - minced pork
- 1 tsp – dark soy sauce
- 100g - bamboo shoots, rinsed and cut into thin strips
- 100g – raw, pealed prawns, finely chopped
- 225g – bean sprouts, roughly chopped
- 2 – finely chopped spring onions
- 1 - egg white lightly beaten
- 25 spring roll wrapper skins
- Oil for deep frying (in a wok or deep fryer)
Method:
- Squeeze out any excess water from the mushrooms and slice finely
- In a pre heated wok heat the 1 tbsp of oil and stir fry the pork until coloured.
- Add the soy sauce bamboo shoots and mushroom and a pinch of salt to the pan. Stir for 3 mins.
- Add the chopped prawns and cook for a further 2 mins. Then the beansprouts and cook for 1 more min. Rove from heat, stir in the spring onions and set aside to cool.
- Place a tablespoon of the mixture in the corner of the spring roll pastry square. Roll over once to secure the filling. Then, fold in the sides to seal the ends and make a 10cm (4 inch) long roll then continue to roll. When complete, seal with the egg white.
- Heat the deep frying oil to around 180 deg C and fry enough spring rolls to not over crowd the pan for 5 mins or until golden and crispy.
- Remove from pan, drain on kitchen roll and serve immediately with spring roll sauce.
Shitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, dark soy, and spring roll skins are all available from Barnsley Oriental Supplies. |