Friday, January 29, 2010

Ya know those coupons you get with the paper and how some of them come with a recipe? I always thought they just made it up on the fly just to sell some products, and maybe they do. But this recipe was amazing! I tried it last night. I'll give you the original recipe and then how I made it.

Pineapple Sweet & Sour Chicken

2 cups MINUTE white rice, uncooked
1 can (20 oz) DOLE pineapple chunks
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 medium green or red bell pepper, cut into chunks
1 medium onion, cut into chunks
1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup sweet & sour sauce
2 tbsp less sodium soy sauce

Prepare rice according to package directions.
Drain pineapple; reserve 2 tbsp juice.
Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add pepers, onions and mushrooms; cook until vegetables are tender crisp. Remove vegetables from skillet; set aside.
Cook chicken in same skillet until chicken is browned and cooked through. Add vegetables back to the skillet with sweet & sour sauce, soy sauce, pineapple chunks and reserved juice. Heat through. Serve with hot cooked rice. Serves 6.

First, I cut this in half since I was only cooking for two. So I made 1 cup BROWN rice, used half the can of pineapple, but still a whole yellow pepper, 1 chicken breast cut up, no mushrooms and I sadly didn't have onion, so I added some hot sauce. And at the end, I mixed the rice in with everything so it would get coated in that sauce. It was so good, please try it and let me know how it turned out for you!

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