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Chicken in Tomato Sauce (Chinese)


So I’ve migrated towards Asian cuisine after the addition of a beautiful son from Shenzhen, Guangdong, China in 2012.  After 14 years, his tastebuds are pretty well fixated on “Chineesee Fooooood!” as he calls it.  The stuff in parenthesis is how I prepared the recipe…..

Ingredients:

  • 240 gm chicken breast, julienned (1 3# bag of thighs)
  • 3 to 4 tomatoes (about 300 gm), cut into chunks, deseeded (about 15 Romas, not seeded)
  • 20 gm brown sugar (片糖, chop into smaller pieces), available at Asian stores (1/2 c brown sugar)
  • 1 tsp minced garlic (2 TB garlic)
  • 1 Tbsp tomato ketchup (5 tb ketchup)
  • 1/2 cup water (no water, I just used the marinade)
  • a dash of salt

Marinade:

  • 2 tsp light soy sauce (3 Tb soy sauce or Braggs Amino Acids)
  • 1 tsp Shaoxing wine (1 Tb rice wine)
  • 1 tsp sugar (1 Tb sugar)
  • 1 tsp cornflour (none)
  • pepper, to taste
  • salt, to taste

Chop chicken and tomatoes.  Combine everything and cook until safe to eat.  Top with scallions if desired.  Serve with rice.

Read more: http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2010/01/chicken-in-tomato-sauce-chinese.html#ixzz2M36CxDoH

 

 
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Posted by on February 26, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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Salsa Cruda or Pico De Gallo Recipe


Salsa Cruda or Pico De Gallo

I have a food scale so I weigh everything.  Roma tomatoes are usually cheaper so that’s why I do that.  I make this by the GALLON. It freezes well enough to be used as a marinade (the texture is kinda wonky but it tastes great!!!)  I use the pan juices from this when cooked with chicken to pour over rice mixed with a bag of steamed mixed veggies and rice.  Delicioso!!

20 oz maters
1/2 bunch cilantro, stemmed
juice of 2 limes (1/4 c I think, lemon will work)
1 small onion or 1/2 a big one, I like red onions
1/8 c (small handful as in what you can inch between thumb and fingers when stuck in the jar) pickled jalapenos
1 tsp or more jarred garlic
1 tsp salt

Toss everything except the onions in a blender and pulse.  Quarter onions and pulse just a couple times. If you do it too long, it will release too much oniony goodness and it’ll be like drinking onion JUICE.  BLECH

 

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