Sunday, February 24, 2013

Honey Chicken Stir Fry

Last night we had Honey Chicken Stir Fry for dinner.  It was actually meant to be a meal for earlier in the week but plans changed as they tend to do.
This one's really easy and was nice and tasty with plenty of sauce to cover the rice with! A huge plus for me.
You start out with making the sauce.  1 1/2 cups chicken broth, 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 4 tablespoons cornstarch, and 1/4 cup honey. I didn't have corn starch so I used 6 Tbs of all purpose flour instead.

whisk it, whisk it good...
They you slice your chicken breast real thin like you are making chicken strips.  Heat some oil in a pan (about 1 tbs) and then throw in the chicken, stirring it around for a few minutes until it's cooked through.
In the last 30 seconds of the chicken cooking throw in a few cloves of garlic all minced up (or use the stuff in the jar like I did since I didn't have any fresh garlic) then put the chicken to the side on a plate.
Throw in about a cup of fresh green beans and stir them around.

After a few minutes throw the chicken and garlic back in to the pan with the beans.  Give it a minute then throw in your sauce mixture.

The sauce will reduce quickly and become nice and thick.  At this point I threw in about a half a cup of salted cashews.  In the future when I make this I will leave this as a side that you can add on if you want because some of us don't like to mix crunchy nuts with soft chicken and beans.
Crunchy Cashews
Serve it over some rice or noodles! Yummy!
I got the recipe from here: http://www.framedcooks.com/2012/05/honey-chicken-stir-fry.html

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