Sunday, January 17, 2016

Spicy Peanut Chicken with Ramen

Ingredients
  • 2 cups chicken tenders cut into small bite sized pieces
  • 1⁄2 cup green onion, chopped
  • 1 diced red pepper
  • 2 stalks diced celery
  • 1/8 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/8 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp peanut butter
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp minced garlic
  • 1 tsp fresh grated ginger
  • 1/2 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tsp Siracha sauce
  • 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1/2 cup chopped roasted, salted peanuts
  • 2 packages hot and spicy ramen noodles
Directions
  1. Whisk together the garlic, ginger, honey, peanut butter, soy sauce, vineagar, Siracha and sesame oil. Set aside.
  2. Lightly sprinkle the chicken tenders with about 1 tsp of the spicy broth flavouring mix from one of the Ramen packages.
  3. In a large non-stick pan misted with olive oil or cooking spray, saute the chicken tenders until cooked through. Add the green onions, celery, and red pepper and continue to saute another minute or two until the veggies are beginning to soften.
  4. Put the rest of the opened flavouring package for the Ramen into a large pot of water and bring it to the boil. Add both packages of Ramen noodles and cook just until they begin to pull apart (about 1 minute max) and then immediately drain. (save the additional flavour packages to use in future soups)
  5. Place the noodles back into the wok and gently toss into the chicken, veggies and sauce (if the sauce has cooled bring the heat back up but don't bring to the boil because you don't want to over cook the noodles.
  6. Add the peanuts and cilantro and serve in large bowls.