Food anyone?
I may be kicking butt in the gym, but our dinners have really fallen behind lately. The problem with doing things out of the house, is you need to leave the house to do them. Which means other things suffer. I can either go to the gym or for a walk, or to run errands, OR I can make dinner. I can’t do both at the same time. And both my husband and I dislike about 90% of crock-pot type meals. I need to get more decent ingredients into our fridge, so we can make more fast and simple meals like this one!
Red Cabbage Chicken Stiry Fry
- 10 small sweet peppers
- 4 cups fresh chopped red cabbage
- 4 chicken breast tenderloins or two chicken breasts thawed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons tamari sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar or honey
- 1/2 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional for spice)
- 1/2 tablespoon dried ginger
- 1 tablespoon crushed garlic
- 20 leaves of fresh Thai Basil
Place your thawed chicken in a frying pan and cook on medium heat for five minutes on each side. Set aside.
Seed your peppers and cut them into larger chunks (one inch). Place the peppers in a wide pot with oil, garlic, pepper flakes and ginger. Begin to fry on medium heat. Chop your red cabbage up to he consistency you would for coleslaw. Continue stir frying until peppers appear to be caramelizing. When the peppers are softer, add your cabbage, honey/sugar, tamari/soy sauce. Dice up your cooked chicken and add it to the pot. Give it a good stir and keep stirring on medium-high heat for five minutes. Add your basil leaves minus a few for garnishing. Remove the pot from heat and stir it a few more times. The pot should only have been on the heat for around 20 minutes to avoid mushy veggies. The cabbage will have a bit of crunch to it.
Eat by itself or serve with your rice of choice. I like it with jasmine rice myself. This should make four decent servings if you serve it with a side dish. Or two big, heaping servings if you skip the carbs and go for the giant plate of veggies like we tend to do around here. I have actually taken to eating my stir fries with sweet potatoes lately! The ginger in the stir fry really goes well with the sweet potato.