Mango Chicken

I was doing a bit of food blog browsing the other day and came across this intriguing recipe for a mango and chicken cashew stir fry. Mango in a hot dish? I simply had to try it out!

The chicken is marinated in soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and brown sugar overnight which made it silky soft after cooking, mm. I always try to marinate my meat in something anyway because I always fear it will dry out whilst cooking. That could just be to do with my cooking skills but never mind. It would probably amuse you to know that I had a bit of trouble taking the mango apart. I started to cut it down the middle lengthways like you would an avocado, then remembered that the hairy seed in the centre is rather tough and you can't just separate the two halves that way. Messy mango. Hm.

I had a lot of fun cooking this though, as there was so much colour and it smelt so tasty too! I love stumbling across new recipes like this. I never would have thought to mix mango, chicken, cashew nuts and ginger together but would definitely recommend you try this to taste all those different flavours and textures together.

And the whole time, I had the mango song in my head which made it all the more fun :-) If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch it here. I guarantee you will hear it everytime a mango is mentioned from now on!