Indonesian Chicken With Green Beans

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Ingredients:

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Instructions:

: chicken:
1 4 skinless boneless chicken
: breast halves -- cut into
: thin strips

2 TB fresh lime juice
1 TB fresh ginger root -- finely
: minced
: Vegetables and sauce:
1/2 lb green beans -- cut into 2"
: pieces
1/2 c low-sodium chicken broth
2 TB fresh lime juice
1 TB soy sauce
1 ts brown sugar
1 ts turmeric
1/4 ts crushed red pepper
1 ts cornstarch, dissolved in
2 ts water
3 ts oil
1 sm onion -- thinly sliced
1 sm red bell pepper -- thinly
: sliced
4 cloves garlic -- minced
1 TB fresh ginger root -- minced
: fine
3 c hot cooked rice

1. To prepare the chicken: Cut the chicken into strips and put into
a glass bowl. Combine the lime juice, ginger and garlic. Pour over
the chicken and marinate in refrigeration at least 1 hour. 2. To
prepare the vegetables and sauce: Bring a medium pan of water to a
boil, add the green beans and time about 5 minutes, or until tender.
Drain the beans and rinse with cold water until completely chilled.
Pat dry. 3. For the sauce, combine the chicken broth, lime juice, soy
sauce, brown sugar, turmeric and red pepper. Prepare the dissolved
cornstarch. 4. In a large skillet, preferably nonstick, heat 1
teaspoon oil over medium-high heat. Add half of the chicken strips
and stir-fry until golden and just cooked through. Remove from the
pan and add another teaspoon of oil. Stir-fry the remaining chicken.
Remove from the pan. 5. Heat the remaining teaspoon oil. Add the
onion and red bell pepper; stir-fry 2 minutes. Add the garlic and
ginger; stir-fry 1 minute. Add the sauce mixture and bring to a
boil. Stir in the dissolved cornstarch and boil until lightly
thickened. Add the beans and chicken; cook 2 minutes. 6. With a
slotted spoon, spoon the chicken and vegetables over the cooked rice.
Bring the sauce back to a boil and boil until thickened. Pour over
the dish and serve.

Recipe By : Seattle Times (from "The Gilroy Garlic Festival
Cookbook)

From: Rooby <rooby@shell.Masterpiece.Codate: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:25:27
~0700

Servings: 6

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Chicken is ideal
for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

"Poultry is for cookery what canvas is for painting, and the cap of Fortunatus for the charlatans. It is served to us boiled, roast, hot or cold, whole or in portions, with or without sauce, and always with equal success." Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)