Friday, January 30, 2009

Easiest Stir-Fry

I found this quick and healthy meal at http://www.zonya.com/.

Easiest Stir-Fry

Categories: Chicken, Freezer Recipes, Healthy & Light, Low Iodine Diet, Quick & Easy

olive oil
chicken breast, no skin, no bone -- cut into cubes or strips
minced ginger -- optional, to taste depending on the flavor of the sauce
minced garlic -- optional, to taste depending on the flavor of the sauce
frozen stir-fry vegetables
your favorite Asian sauce -- to taste

Heat oil in a skillet or wok. Add chicken and stir-fry until cooked and lightly browned; remove from pan and keep warm. Heat a little more olive oil in the pan and saute minced ginger and/or minced garlic for a few seconds. Add frozen vegetables and stir-fry until cooked. Add chicken back to the skillet. Add your favorite Asian sauce to taste and heat until everything is warm. Serve over rice.

FREEZER DIRECTIONS:
PREPARATION: Cut up chicken and put it in a labelled freezer bag. Bag chicken and frozen vegetables together in a larger labelled freezer bag. You may also add a bag of your ginger and/or garlic and your Asian sauce, if desired. If you don't bag and freeze the sauce with the rest, mark the bottle so you know not to use it in another recipe.
TO SERVE: Thaw chicken, ginger and/or garlic, and sauce. Leave the vegetables frozen until time to prepare. Cook stir-fry as instructed above.

LOW IODINE DIET: Use an LID-safe sauce or make your own LID-safe sauce. Try this copycat recipe for Mr. Yoshida's Original Gourmet Sweet & Savory sauce.

Source: http://www.zonya.com/
Internet Address: http://www.zonya.com/pdf/recipes/Easiest_Stirfry.pdf
Serving Ideas: Serve over rice.

NOTES : You can use any Asian sauce you like. Sweet and sour is good. Litehouse also makes some good salad dressing/marinade/sauces you can find in the produce section of your grocery store. Sometime I would like to try peanut sauce, too.
The flavor of the sauce will determine if you want to use any minced ginger and/or minced garlic. Fresh is always good. I usually use bottled minced ginger and garlic because it is so easy and the taste is very close to fresh.

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