Springfield cashew chicken recipe

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If you have never lived in, visited, or traveled through Southwest Missouri then you have no idea what you are missing. If you have never been to a Southwest Missouri oriental restaurant and ordered cashew chicken then you have missed one of the best things on this dear beloved planet. If you go to an oriental restaurant, even in Southwest Missouri, and they have something called Springfield Style Cashew Chicken save yourself...don't order it! Yes, Cashew Chicken is the stuff of legend, the…

Make the signature Springfield dish, straight from the recipe of the man who invented it.

My hometown of Springfield, Missouri is the birthplace of cashew chicken. I tell people this literally every chance I get, and NO ONE ever believes me. They probably think I’m making stuff up in the vain attempt to attribute something to the Ozarks besides Branson, Anita Bryant and Hill People. And they’d be right. ...

Growing up, there was only one option when you wanted Chinese food… the menu may have had a ton of great choices, but if it wasn’t Springfield Cashew Chicken, was it even really worth ordering Chinese food? You see, traditional Cashew Chicken is a Chinese-American dish that’s stir fried in a wok, but Springfield-style CashewRead more

My version of Leong's Cashew Chicken. Close enough! Early last year (Jan. 24, 2014), I wrote a blog about Springfield’s (MO) signature dish, Cashew Chicken, and I included a recipe for slow cooker cashew chicken, which I found to be not half bad. In the story I mentioned that the first time I remember eating cashew chicken was at Leong’s Tea House back in the early 70s when I was in high school. Having grown up on the stuff, I sure did miss it when celiac disease forced me to give it up…

Fewer cashews and a slightly milder sauce with more chicken flavor set this version apart.

This Springfield Style Cashew Chicken recipe is the perfect blend of salty and sweet and is the ultimate comfort meal.

Springfield is famous for its cashew chicken scene that started back in the 1960s by David Leong. If you're craving this Springfield-style dish or are looking for some new cashew chicken places to try, go down our abundant list of cashew chicken restaurants in Springfield from A-Z, starting with the

I grew up in Springfield, Missouri, which is pretty proud of their claim to inventing cashew chicken. For me, cashew chicken is a very nostalgic food as it was a part of my childhood. For it to be true Springfield-style cashew chicken, the chicken pieces have to deep fried and there will be no colorful…