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On August 07 2012 14:33 Zariel wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2012 14:18 kierpanda wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On August 07 2012 14:12 Zariel wrote:
Here's an asian pro-tip:
Get potato starch and mix 1 tablespoon or so into the chicken after you've chopped the chicken up into pieces. It locks the chicken tenderness in and prevents 'chicken juice' from oozing out. Otherwise you will get bit of unwanted liquid which dilutes the sauce later. Sort of like using flour for orange chicken? :0 I try to avoid using starches, but I've recently started experimenting with arrow root as a sauce-thickener. I'll mess around with that next time. Thanks! No, not flour. Flour is from wheat. You can buy potato starch from asian grocery stores (like $2 and it'll last you forever), it looks exactly like flour but you mix it into chopped meat (before you cook) to prevent the meat-juice from escaping the meat which makes it more tender especially if your making stir fry. Try it out definitely, you will notice how you get a nice seared texture because there's no liquid oozing out. Edit: You can use almonds to replace cashews
Oh no, I mean like flouring chicken for orange chicken. It's somewhat the same process, but you use flour.
I actually did this with arrow root while messing around with making broccoli beef. :D
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On August 07 2012 14:54 mordk wrote:
Awesome, I'm not that hot at cooking but it looks doable, thanks!
Oh, another question, with these quatities how many people can eat?
Oops, sorry -- forgot to include that.
It'll feed about 4-5 people (be extra generous with the stir fry!).
You may want to up the rice portions too if you plan on making left overs.
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Okay, this looks doable, even to me. I know what i'm eating tommorrow :D
Amazing blog post, as usual 
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Just curious, why the choice of coconut oil here?
EDIT: 5*'s
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lol, I made this without the cashews last month :D
it was wonderful!
Chicken onion and mushrooms + pretty much anything = win :D
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On August 07 2012 13:12 Xeofreestyler wrote:
You always make me hungry in the middle of the night. Looks awesome.
Yeah can you upload these in, you know, a time of day that won't interfere with my normal eating schedule haha
So hard to not go downstairs and eat.
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Nice idea and simple to follow presentation. Will try.
Just one thing. Please put a Serves: No of people think at the top of your recepie. I get that most of us can work it out from the ingredients weight but for novices it can be difficult. I dont know why but it pisses me off when its not there.
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On August 07 2012 20:01 Blacktion wrote:
Nice idea and simple to follow presentation. Will try.
Just one thing. Please put a Serves: No of people think at the top of your recepie. I get that most of us can work it out from the ingredients weight but for novices it can be difficult. I dont know why but it pisses me off when its not there.
I added that and the cook/prep time to the main post. sorry!
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shouldnt a food that contains the word "rush" contain some cheese? ;l
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Looks nice, i make something similar often but will try this out.
The american/english way of noting ingredients for recipes is just awful though. Why such extensive use of the cup, listing in grams is so much more logical and easier for buying your ingredients. Not that it matters much in this recipe here but it's just a silly way of noting an ingredient list that is somehow not fully replaced by the superior method of just using grams or even if you have to some imperial system equivalent.
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You don't have to use potato starch to velvet the chicken (I believe that is the term used to refer to this kind of preparation to keep stir-fried chicken moist); I use corn starch all the time and it works just fine.
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So.. hungry! MUST SLEEP 
Looks delicious.. I need to learn how to cook a proper meal!
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How do you time these posts for when I'm always the hungriest? Looks delicious as always. Maybe I should give some of these a try when I move back onto campus this semester
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Brown rice in 'food porn,' argh
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On August 08 2012 09:55 Waxangel wrote:
Brown rice in 'food porn,' argh
Didn't know you were a rice-ist
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OMG this is awesome. Time to go shopping for ingredients <3
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Food porn? Even though it wasn't exactly what I expected it still did the trick.
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Wow, the steps are super simple. Thanks!
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Great, now I'm very hungry but very incapable of cooking this.
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