Рецепт Orange Ginger Chicken with Soba noodles
Remember when I was a vegetarian and there were no meat recipes on the blog?
I know, only a few of you have been with me for that long but surely someone out there reading remembers! Raise your hand. Leave a comment if you’re feeling generous.
Anyway. Even though I didn’t eat boneless skinless chicken breasts for many years, I cooked them quite often for the Omnivore. I got giddily excited when they went on sale for $0.99/lb and stocked the freezer. They seemed so versatile and were easily added to my vegetarian meals to satiate a request from my meat loving husband.
And because they seem fairly benign I also chose boneless skinless chicken breasts as my first meal for my reintroduction to meat.
The meal was veggie fried rice with some sparse chicken chunks. I was going to ease in. I wish my first bite of meat after many years had been a glorified experience in which the heavens opened, angels sang, and light shone upon my fork.
It was not. I gagged. Rubbery. Dry-ish. Bland-ish. Boneless chicken breast.
Had I been serving that to my husband for years? No wonder he never made a comment about it…there was nothing to say. It was worse than eating tofu. It was, in short, horrible.
I rarely buy boneless skinless breasts now. I usually buy a whole chicken and break it down myself. Or I roast a whole chicken, pull the meat from it, and continue as directed by recipes. But sometimes I get excited about chicken breast sales and I stock up. And then I get flashbacks of that horrible gag worthy experience.
But I’m here to tell you that this recipe will not induce gags. It was wonderful. My husband and I fought over the leftovers. I won. Soba noodles are so great and tender. They are much healthier than enriched white flour noodles but don’t have the stiffness and grittiness that my husband hates about whole wheat spaghetti. If you can’t find them, however, in sort of pasta can substitute.
Orange chicken with sesame soba noodles and green beans
Ingredients
- 1 orange, juiced
- 1 T minced ginger
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup soy
- 1 tsp sriaracha
- 1 T brown sugar
- 1 T canola oil
- 1 T sesame oil
- 1/2 lb green beans
- 2 chicken breasts
- zest from the orange
- 6 ounces soba noodles
Instructions
Marinate chicken in minced garlic, ginger, and juice from the orange for at least 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, make a sauce of soy, sriaracha, brown sugar, and oils.
In a saute pan, heat a small bit of oil to medium heat. Add chicken breasts and cook 3-4 minutes on each side. Add any of remaining marinade to pan and bring to a boil. Stir in orange zest. Cover and remove from heat.
Bring about 1 inch of water to a boil in soup pot. Place green beans in a vegetable steamer over boiling water and cook 4-5 minutes until tender crisp.
Boil soba noodles 3-4 minutes in a pot of boiling water until tender and flexible.
Toss soy sauce mixture with green beans and soba noodles. Plate and top with a warm chicken breast.
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 4