Joy’s Healthy Lifestyle Log

Presmaggie on the 40-somethings board at 3FC asked how I cooked my chard. So, here’s the recipe. If I don’t have chicken stock on hand, I use water. It’s based on a recipe in the booklet that came with our wok, but we’ve changed it enough that I can claim it as ours, now.

Greens with chicken in peanut sauce
Greens
6 cups greens (we use a mix of what’s available — chard, kale, and spinach are our favorites. Collards will work, but I put more honey in the sauce to counteract the bitterness), washed, spun dry, torn in pieces, and put in the refrigerator for awhile to dry further

Chicken & marinade
1 boneless, skinless chicken breast, sliced into thin slices about 1 inch long
1 Tbl chicken stock
2 tsp hoisin sauce

Peanut Sauce
2 Tbl reduced-sodium soy sauce
2 Tbl chicken broth
2 Tbl peanut butter
1 Tbl hoisin sauce
2 tsp honey

Stir-fry
2 oz dried Asian noodles (broken angel hair pasta works, too)
1/4 large onion, chopped
peanut oil as needed for stir-frying (we don’t measure this)

Topping
1/4 cup roasted peanuts

Prepare the greens so that they have time to dry in the refrigerator for awhile before cooking (dry ingredients work much better in stir-fries).

Marinate the chicken for 10 minutes to an hour in the broth and hoisin sauce.

Blend the sauce ingredients together in a small food processor and set aside.

Cook the noodles in boiling water, uncovered, until just tender. Drain, then toss with a little of the sauce in the cooking pot. Put the lid on to keep them a little warm and set aside.

While the noodles are cooking, start the stir-fry. Stir-fry the onions for a minute. Add the chicken and continue stir-frying until the chicken is opaque. Add the greens and stir-fry until they wilt, about a minute or two more. Stir in the noodles and sauce. Stir until everything is combined and hot. Top with peanuts.

We’ve been getting two supper servings from this plus enough leftover for a lunch serving the next day. Don’t put the peanuts in with the leftovers — they get soggy.

Filed under: Recipes on August 16th, 2009