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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Teriyaki "Chicken"

This was inspired by my boyfriend. He occasionally eats lunch at Wahoo's FIsh Tacos. They apparently have a teriyaki beef meal, which he enjoys the flavors of, but not the beef. (He's a "sort-of, sometimes" vegetarian.) I bought a bottle of teriyaki sauce from the market, but the ingredients made me less than happy- Teriyaki is supposed to be soy sauce, mirrin or sake, and sugar. This bottle had no sugar! (I added some). Anyways, recipe:

1/2 package Quorn "chicken" tenders
1 bottle teriyaki sauce (make sure yours has sugar, or at least high fructose corn syrup)
1 large sweet yellow onion
1 head broccoli
1 red pepper
15 or so white mushrooms
1 can baby corn
1 cup brown rice
1/3 cup "healthy" oil, you choose.
1 green onion, sliced very thin

Cut all veggies into bite size pieces except the onion. Cut the onion into rings, discard "core". In separate bowls, marinate the chicken and onions for about 30 mins. Start the rice cooking, follow directions on package. Once the onions have finished marinating, heat a large frying pan with about half the oil. Once a drop of water bounces and sizzles, throw in the onions and a small portion of the teriyaki sauce. These will need to cook for about 15 mins. In another pan, with the rest of the oil, stir fry the veggies. You may find that your pan is too small, in that case, (as I did), do half at a time. The trick to successful stir-frying is to not crowd the vegetables, or they'll begin to steam themselves and get mushy. You want them to fry. Once the onions are almost cooked, dump the chicken into the onion pan, and let them cook together. You'll want to add a fair amount of the sauce along with the chicken. Once everything is cooked, combine rice, vegetables, onion/chicken mixture, and let the sauce cover everything. Mix it up a bit, toss on plates, and top with the green onions.

(And i know what you're thinking... Rice? There's no rice in your picture, Ana... I know. I burned the rice, because I got distracted by my onions, and forgot to turn off the pan. So, saving the day as usual, I dug in the cabinet for one lonely packet of ramen noodles, boiled them up, drained then, and tossed them in with the veggies.)

I usually suggest modifications to a recipe, but you know what? This was perfect, I wouldn't change a thing. Oh yeah, and my beverage was Raspberry Ice crystal Light.

WW pts on core: 1 pt for the sauce, the oil is spread out through the recipe so it just ends up being your healthy oil for the day, and i'll count points for my ramen, but if you have rice, you won't have to. So 1 pt total.

2 Comments:

At 4:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks so good Ana! I'm a new veggie and haven't tried Quorn products but seeing this recipe makes me want to venture out and try them. Thanks!

 
At 11:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I haven't tried Quorn either, but now I want to!

Also, you should repost on the WW site. I think the WW VB would be interested!

 

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