Wednesday, 10 September 2014

"Vegetables are all the colours of the Rainbow, don't you know".......{Peanut, chicken and veg stir fry}



"what do you want for dinner"? says She
"whats the choice"? asks He
"something made with Chicken and or chorizo or tuna" She says "oh and lots of veg"
"chicken noodles, lots of green stuff...... you know veg" He replies excitedly
"sure thing, but vegetables are all colours of the rainbow, don't you know" She laughs

Noodles, veg and protein - staple diet for our small and humble household.



Rainbow Stir Fry 

Serves 4

for the sauce:

2 TBSP oyster sauce 
4 TBSP soy sauce 
splash white wine
2 cloves garlic, finely sliced
thumb sized piece ginger, finely sliced
spring onion, finely sliced
1/2 green chili, finely sliced
1/2 red chili, finely sliced - if you don't want it to spicy half amount of use 1TSP dried chilli 
juice of 1 fresh lime 
1 DSP honey
1 DSP smooth peanut butter 

3 breasts skinless chicken, finely sliced 
handful of tenderstem broccoli
1/2 red pepper, sliced
1 carrot, sliced into thin batons 
1/4 butternut squash, roughly grated
1 leek, cut into thick batons 
groundnut oil
around 200g noodles, cooked according to instructions 


Take all the ingredients for the sauce and whisk together in a bowl. Add more soy sauce, lime juice etc to taste. Add in chicken and make sure all coated, leave to marinade whilst prepping your veg. Prep veg. Warm oil in wok and add in marinated chicken, cook out for 5 minutes or so until chicken is pretty much cooked. Add in veg and any remaining sauce, Stir fry for a further 4-5 minutes. Mix in noodles coating them with meat, veg and sauce. Serve. 







 

6 comments:

  1. Wow yummy, vibrant, tasty, healthy food! If you fancy linking up to #tastytuesdays, it's a linky that opens on a Tuesday and is up all week, please do x

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  2. Glad you liked the look of it! Thanks for the invitation I will defo link up this week!x

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  4. Whoops don't know what happened there! This sounds so yummy :) I'm trying to eat a better - but it's so hard! This looks perfect though, and edible - some 'healthy' recipes I've looked at are designed for rabbits I'm sure! ;)

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    1. Thanks Charlotte! YesI think healthy should still be tasty and a stir fry is often an easy way of doing this

      Thanks for stopping by x

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  5. So looking forwarding to cooking this up tonight!

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