I had mixed feelings with the first month of my participation in The Secret Recipe Club, on the one hand the ups are all the lovely new bloggers I met, and who I am now following. On the down side was the fact that the person whose blog I was given did not leave a comment on my post! I wonder if she did not like the rendition I made of her meal? This month, my blog assignment is *jam hands*. Ali is from Montana and is a mom of two. We both have the same feeling about people being nice – I however think mascara is an every day necessity! I chose Ali’s Funky Chicken and Sesame Noodles as it sounded exactly like something we would eat and enjoy
I changed the pasta to noodles and added some green beans for colour and crunch. Dave really enjoyed this meal, enough so that he took the left over chicken to work for lunch the next day.
CHICKEN AND SESAME NOODLES
ingredients:
for the chicken
¼ cup brown sugar – I used fructose
¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup teriyaki sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon chopped ginger
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
soy bean oil for cooking
for the noodles (for 2 people)
180g ramen noodles
¼ cup soy sauce
6 tablespoons sugar – I used fructose
2 tablespoons sesame oil
3 spring onions, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
method:
for the chicken
mix the sugar, soy, teriyaki, garlic and ginger in a bowl
stir until the sugar has mostly dissolved
add the chicken and coat well with the marinade
cover and leave in the fridge for 2 hours
for the noodles
using a jar, mix together the soy, sugar and sesame oil
for the meal
heat the oil in a wok and the water for the noodles
cook the spring onions for the noodles if you don’t like them raw – we don’t
set aside
remove the chicken from the marinade and seal – discard the marinade
cut into bite size slices and then finish cooking in the wok while you boil your noodles
shake the noodle sauce until well blended
drain the noodles, return then back to the pot and pour the sauce over the noodles
add the spring onions and the sesame seeds and mix the noodles so that they are well coated
place the noodles into a bowl and add the left over sauce to the chicken while it is still in the wok
cooks notes: we added 50g green beans to the wok for a minute so that they were nice and crunchy
I am submitting this recipe to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by ME!
Tandy
