Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken
This delicious slow cooker cashew chicken recipe is just as tasty as the one from your favourite Chinese takeaway. It’s easy to make plus it is both gluten and dairy free.
Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken
Now that the weather is turning to Autumn there is nothing I love more than having slow cooked food for dinner. Whether you have been busy in the house all day or out of the house at work having a meal ready with minimum effort is such a time saver. You just throw all the ingredients into the pot, put on the lid and *switch the machine on and go about the rest of your day. *Very important: I’ve not noticed until much later that I hadn’t turned the slow cooker on! I only noticed because there were no delicious smells wafting around the house. and go about the rest of your day. When it’s time for dinner it is ready to eat. Depending on what you are making you might have to cook some sort of side dishes like rice, potatoes, veg, etc.
Chinese food is probably my favourite food (it varies between that and Mexican). However a lot of dishes contain soy sauce which has fermented wheat in it. This is a no-no if you are gluten free! So if I fancy some Chinese food then I have to make it myself. I use Kikkoman’s Tamari Gluten Free Soy Sauce for when my recipes require soy sauce. I have been slowly trying to adapt my favourite dishes into gluten free versions and have come up with this Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken recipe.
As the chicken is slow cooked it means that it is very soft and tender. I used chicken breast for this recipe but you can use thighs if you prefer. If you like the veg and cashew nuts with a bit of a crunch then add these in towards the end of the cooking time.
Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken
This delicious slow cooker cashew chicken recipe is just as tasty as the one from your favourite Chinese takeaway. It’s easy to make plus it is both gluten and dairy free.
Ingredients
- 500 g Chicken Breasts
- 3 Tbsps Cornflour
- 1/2 Tsp Ground Black Pepper
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil To brown the chicken
- 1 Red Pepper Chopped
- 100 g Cashew Nuts Unsalted
- 2 Tbsps Gluten Free Soy Sauce
- 4 Tbsps Honey
- 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- 2 Cloves Garlic Minced
- 1/4 Tsp Dried Chilli Flakes
- 2 Tbsps Rice Wine Vinegar or White Wine Vinegar
- 2 Spring Onions Chopped; To Garnish
Instructions
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Add the cornflour and black pepper into a bag
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Cut the chicken into 1 inch chunks and then place it into the bag and shake to coat the meat in cornflour
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Heat the oil in a frying pan and once hot enough brown the chicken pieces for 2 minutes each side. Once the chicken is browned chuck it into the slow cooker along with the chopped red pepper
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Combine the soy sauce, wine vinegar, honey, brown sugar, garlic and chilli flakes in a bowl. Pour over the chicken and red pepper in the slow cooker. You can either add the cashew nuts now before cooking or if you like them with a bit more of a crunch then add them to the last 30 minutes of cooking.
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Cook on LOW for 4 hours.
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Serve with rice and chopped spring onion.
Possible Variations:
Use a different protein: Instead of chicken you can use pork, prawn or even beef.
Add more veg: Try adding some broccoli, carrots or onion to the slow cooker. Remember and add it in towards the end of the cooking time if you like your veg crunchy.
More spice: Increase the quantity of chilli flakes if you want a bit more heat to the dish.
Want it a bit sweeter: Add some more brown sugar.
If you try out this recipe or anything else from my blog, I’d really love to hear any feedback!
If you are looking for other Chinese dishes:
Gluten Free Prawn Toasts & Honey Chilli Chicken
22 responses to “Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken”
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I’d never thought of cooking Chinese food in the slow cooker! This looks delicious
Thank you! It was really nice. It’s the only Chinese dish that I’ve tried in a slow cooker, will need to try a few others.
This looks delicious I am going to try it over the weekend x
I hope that you enjoy it 😊
This looks delicious. I love being able to cook with our slow cooker but always struggle to find inspiration for what to make. I’m looking forward to giving this a try. Thank you.
I hope you like it, I do have a few other recipes if you fancy having a look 😊
Oh my goodness, we were taking about slow cookers in work yesterday and how it’s the perfect time of year to get it out. Great yummy looking recipe to try it out on. Thanks x
This is definitely the time of year to get the slow cooker out. Coming home to a meal that’s ready to eat is the best thing about slow cookers.
I love Chinese food and love adding cashew nuts to food. This looks delicious, will def be trying it x
I hope you enjoy it 😊
It’s that slow cooker time of year, I’ve never done chinese before and this looks sooo good.
It’s the first Chinese recipe I’ve tried in the slow cooker so will be looking out for more to try. It is so handy just to chuck in the ingredients and then walk away and leave it.
This looks delicious – I would never have thought to make Chinese dishes in a slow cooker!
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It is really tasty! I hadn’t either but as I don’t have much free time now I thought I would give it a try.
I was only thinking this week I needed to get my slow cooker out. I would never have thought to do Chinese in it. This looks amazing!
This looks delicious! I may need to buy a slow cooker now!
Wow that sounds absolutely delicious and perfect for someone like me with a whole bunch of new food intolerances!
I love to cook in my slow cooker. I can’t wait to try Cashew Chicken. This would be a great dinner. Any time I can just put food in a crock pot, set it and forget it, I am a happy cook.
What a great recipe. I do like to use my slow cooker. I love the sound of this x
I love using my slow cooker. Thanks for the recipe! #MMBC
Literally just ordered the ingredients to make this tomorrow afternoon! It sounds lovely, looking forward to trying it.
Hi Joy
Thanks for trying out my recipe. I hope that you enjoyed the Cashew Chicken dish 😊
Denise