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Cashew Chicken and Asparagus Stir-Fry

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Chicken breast chopped asparagus and cashews in a sauce on a serving platter and served with rice.
Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, Prop Styling by Christine Keely

Sometimes it feels like we endure winter merely for the impending promise of asparagus. Good local asparagus is a spring delight, something easy to forget when some supermarkets are populated with the stalks in the dead of winter. Asparagus brings the full strength of its snappy, fresh, intensely green flavor to this cashew chicken, the crunch of the vegetable echoed in the crunch of the nuts. Have all of your ingredients prepped and lined up next to the stove because the actual cooking goes by in the blink of an eye. Asparagus, especially when sliced, needs barely any cooking, so keep things hot and moving fast.

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