Ingredients
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- 1 kg chicken breast or thighs (chopped)
- 3 tablespoons corn or tapioca flour
- 1 brown onion (finely chopped)
- 1 capsicum (finely chopped)
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 cm piece of ginger (finely chopped)
- FOR THE SAUCE
- 1/4 cup tamari or soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons raw honey
- ON THE SIDE
- 1 cup of rice & 1 3/4 cups broth
- 100 g frozen peas
- 100 g sugar snap peas
- 1/2 head broccoli
Instructions
- In a bowl, toss the chopped chicken with the flour and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper. Then, in a hot pan (or your slow cooker if you have that option), brown the onions, capsicums, garlic and ginger in a generous pour of oil or butter.
- Once the onions are brown, remove them from the pan and add the chicken in. You want to ‘just’ sear the chicken. Now add in the sauce ingredients and the chicken and onion mixture. Stir well to ensure the sauce is all over the chicken and pop the lid on to cook. If you can, give it a stir every so often so it doesn’t stick. But don’t worry about the ongoing stirring it if you’re pressure cooking it, just give it a good stir when it’s done.
- With 20 minutes to go, cook the rice in your bone broth. When it’s nearly done, shred the broccoli through the rice and add the frozen peas. You’ll be surprised how quick it cooks when it’s in the hot rice.
- Then, when it’s all ready to go, stir the sugar snaps through the chicken and serve with the veggie packed rice.
Notes
- If you’re cooking this in a slow cooker with a thick lid, like a pressure cooker, it will be watery. Take the lid off for the last hour of cooking.
- If you want the sauce really thick, you can drain it off and thicken it up in a pan over high heat.
- Make sure you sear the chicken and not just add the flour into the cooker, it will end up gluggy.
- Do go to the extra effort to serve your rice with the veg in it. It’s a great way to get extra veg in and it also helps kids know that not every time food is going to look the same. Sometimes the rice will have vegetables, other times some seeds, and sometimes mumma might pop some powdered turmeric in and turn the rice yellow! All is ok, all is yum, all is healthy.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
