Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Peanutty Chicken

This isn't anything authentic. It's not Thai Chicken, it's not African Peanut Stew, it's somewhere in between and full of delicious. This is how I cook. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, look up a bunch of recipes online and figure it out based on what tastes good to us. This peanut chicken is a great example of that. Chicken is shredded into a spicy peanut and allspice sauce and served over rice. It is SO good.




Ingredients:
4 chicken thighs
1 good size yellow onion, chopped
3-4 cloves garlic
1/4 peanut butter
3T soy sauce or tamari (gmo free!)
chicken stock or bone broth (I really don't know how much. Enough to thin out the sauce enough to your liking and taste)
2T all spice powder, divided
2 t. red pepper flakes
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 c. flour
salt and pepper
butter, coconut oil or some other fat to cook it in
2 cups cooked rice.

1. Dredge the chicken thighs in flour, 1T of allspice, salt and pepper. Brown in fat (don't cook through). Set aside.
2. Add more fat as necessary, add onion, cook until beginning to brown.
Meanwhile, combine peanut butter, soy sauce, 1T allspice, red pepper flakes, cinnamon. If it seems too think, add bone broth until it's thin enough for you, tasting as you go. If you're using conventional chicken stock it may get a little salty.
As onions begin to brown, add garlic, stirring until you can smell it (don't let the garlic burn!), then add sauce.
3. Add chicken back in and put the top on. Let simmer until chicken is cooked through. Check in the sauce periodically. Depending on the size of your thighs you may need more sauce. Sometimes I have to double the recipe, sometimes it's enough. It really depends on the size of your thighs. Did your chicken have a donkey or was she more svelte?
4. Once thighs are done, remove and shred. Add back into sauce.

Serve over rice, with something green on the side. We had it with some broccoli tossed in butter and salt with naan on the side. It was delish!
Hope you like it!











Monday, June 17, 2013

Menu Plan - Week of June 17

Just when you think you know what you're doing, everything gets thrown off, right?
This weeks menu is totally different than what I've been doing.
 No big meat meal to last all week. No International Tuesday.
But we roll with the punches around here, right?
This weekend didn't go as planned - we wound up going to a cookout Saturday and ate lots of crabs (yum!) and went to another cookout today for Father's Day so neither of those meals were done, they'll be thrown in here this week.

Monday - Fish Sticks, French Fries, Slaw
Tuesday - Girl Scout Pool Party!
Wednesday - Falafel Salad
Thursday - Burgers, fries, beans
Friday - Pizza (any suggestions for toppings?)
Saturday - Orzo Pasta Salad with Shrimp, Spinach and Tomatoes
Sunday- Roast Chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits

I'm working on a document to keep on the refrigerator for Big to stop the inevitable
"I'm hungry and there isn't anything to eat!"
Quick stuff that she can make herself or are already made and waiting in the fridge. Any suggestions for a pretty open minded, constantly starving, active 10 year old?

Have a great week!