Crunchy Cashew Chicken Sizzle

 About This Recipe

This recipe is for Crunchy Cashew Chicken Sizzle, a delicious stir-fry featuring chicken, colorful vegetables, and cashews. It's flavored with soy sauce, honey, and ginger, and serves about four people. You'll need chicken breasts, bell peppers, garlic, jasmine rice, and a few other ingredients. The recipe includes easy-to-follow steps for cooking and serving. Enjoy! 😊

Makes about 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 lb. boneless chicken breasts, sliced into thin strips
• 1 cup unsalted cashews
• 1 red bell pepper, sliced
• 1 yellow bell pepper, sliced
• 1 orange bell pepper, sliced
• 1 green bell pepper, sliced
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
• 3 green scallions, sliced for garnish
• 2 cups jasmine rice, cooked, or 2 packages of Uncle Ben's Ready-Rice

Steps

1. Cook the jasmine rice according to the package instructions; set it aside. You can also use Ready-Rice by Uncle Ben's.  

2. Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat.  

3. Add the sliced chicken and stir-fry until golden brown and cooked through, about 5-7 minutes. Remove the chicken and set it aside.   

4. In the same pan, add the remaining oil and sauté the minced garlic and grated ginger until fragrant, about 30 seconds.  

5. Add the sliced bell peppers and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes, until they are slightly tender but still crisp to the bite.  

6. Return the chicken to the pan, then add the cashews, soy sauce, and oyster sauce.

7. Pour in the cornstarch mixture to thicken the sauce, stirring to combine all the ingredients. Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes.  

8. Serve the chicken stir-fry over a bed of fluffy jasmine rice, garnished with sliced scallions. 

Confetti Cabbage

Confetti Cabbage

 

About This Recipe

Taking Cabbage from " Salt Port and  Fatback " to crisp, full of flavor, and with lots of veggies that complement each other, this is a healthy choice.

Confetti Cabbage is a fun and healthy dish that turns cabbage into a tasty treat with lots of colorful veggies. It takes just 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to cook, and it serves 6 people. You'll need shredded cabbage, bell peppers, carrots, chicken broth, garlic, onion, and a chili pepper. To make it, cook the veggies in chicken broth until they're tender, then serve with a splash of apple cider vinegar. Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 2 pounds cabbage, shredded
• 1 red, green, and yellow bell pepper, sliced
• 3 carrots, cut in ribbons or julienne
• 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth, low sodium
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1 small onion diced
• 1 green or red chili pepper, diced

 Preparation

1.   Wash Cabbage and slice it very thin so that it will cook evenly.

2.   In a large pan, add chicken broth, garlic, and onions and bring to a boil. (about 2 -3 minutes)

3. Then add Cabbage, peppers, carrots, and salt and pepper to taste. Let simmer for about 5 -10 minutes or until tender (do not overcook). At this point, I cut the burner off and covered it to finish the cooking process.

4.   Serve with a little apple cider vinegar.

Friday Night Special - Savory Lump Crab Soup

About this Recipe 

Savory Lump Crab Soup is one of my favorites. It's quick and easy to make with ingredients from your pantry. 

Prep Time: 10

Cooking Time:15

Servings: 6

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp Olive Oil
• 4 Cloves of Garlic mince
• 1/2 white onions diced
• 2 cups of Low Sodium Chicken Broth
• 14.5 ounce can of Dice tomatoes
• 1 medium baking potato diced
• 1cup fresh or frozen corn
• 1/2 medium Red Bell Peppers diced
• 1/2 medium Green Bell Peppers diced
• 1/4 cup fresh diced Red Chili Peppers
• 1 tbsp Old Bay Seasoning
• 16 ounces Lump Crab Meat

Directions

    Step 1

Add olive oil, garlic, onions, and sauté for about 2 minutes or until translucent in a medium-sized soup pot over medium heat. Then, add chicken broth, tomatoes, and potatoes and let them simmer for about 5 minutes.

Step 2

 Add corn, red, green, and chili peppers, and let simmer for 2 - 3 minutes.  Then add Old Bay seasoning and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add the crab meat, being careful not to break up the lumps. Let simmer for about 2 more minutes.

Step 3

Ladle soup in bowls, garnish with chopped chives, and serve with your favorite French bread.

Cooking from the Pantry - Salads are not just for summer

Quinoa Salad

Salads are not just for summer but for all year round. They can be crisp and light, stimulating and spicy, or substantial and satisfying.  Imagine tempting appetizers, complementary accompaniments, refreshing palate cleansers, or filling main course, and don’t forget that fruit salads make delicious desserts.  How about mixing fruits and veggies together which also makes wonderful salads. So get creative with making salads with endless possibilities.  In addition to making salads, continue to keep clean eating by making your only salad dressings too. 

Ingredients

Makes – 6 servings

• 2 cups cooked quinoa
• ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
• ¼ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
• ½ cup diced red onion
• 2 tablespoons lemon zest
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar  (organic / raw unfiltered)
• ½ yellow bell pepper (dice)
• 1 medium tomato (diced) (tomato only no seeds or pulp)  
• 1 medium english cucumber, peeled, diced
• 4 tablespoons pitted, sliced kalamata olives
• 4 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
• 4 tablespoons fresh mint leaves chopped
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• Salt and pepper to taste  

Let’s make this!

1. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and gently blend well. Covered and let marinate in the refrigerator for about an hour or longer. 

                                                                            

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Apple Cider Vinegar - is a helpful health tonic that has shown promise in helping diabetes, cancer, heart health, high cholesterol, and weight loss, and for years people have used apple cider vinegar as a folk remedy to lower fever and aid indigestion. Reach for apple cider vinegar to cure everything from the hiccups to common cold symptoms.