Chicken with Cashew Sauce and Smashed Potatoes

Today's sauce comes from the book 400 Sauces. I really like this collection of recipes. I needed a sauce to use on my leftover chicken breasts, so I pulled this book out.




I just made the sauce and disregarded the rest of the recipe.


I always have tomato paste in my freezer. Each individual frozen pellet is 1 tablespoon.


I have never cooked with this spice mixture before, but I have read about it in a lot of recipes. It is very good!


The spices really come together with a unique flavor.


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Cashews


Chili Powder


Turmeric


Garam Masala






shallots and garlic are waiting in the mini chopper...everyone went in for a spin!




I transferred the mixture to the sauce pan that I used to cook the giblets for my dog. Feel free to say ewwwwe here, but I think it added a nice flavor.

To go with the chicken I am making Smashed Potatoes. After I got the sauce mixture in the pan I just let it hang out until my water was boiling for the potatoes.








I am sure regular milk would work fine also, but man did this stuff make a difference.


Don't worry, I made this dish a while ago, before the onions expired.


I diced up the whole package since the SO likes to use it on his tacos and nachos that he eats once a week.




Once the potatoes were nearly done I heated the sauce for a minute and then just layered the leftover chicken breast over the sauce and dropped the heat low. I put the lid on the pan just to let the chicken heat through.


Smash up those potatoes!




Once the cream was added they looked heavenly.


I ended up with leftovers of the cashew sauce and ate that on some pasta the next night.




Simple and delicious!