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Lynds
Jun 6, 20203 min read

When You are Craving Chinese Food

Honey Garlic Chicken, vegetable chop suey over rice and chive pancakes with chili sauce


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This is dairy free and can be made gluten free


I love Chinese food but I do not love MSG or any other additive. I honestly choose to eat as many organic foods /or close to it as I can! But I also realize that life equals balance, affordability and common sense.






I trust but I don't and since I can "make" I do... what an easy philosophy when we make/have the time to cook! And I say that with zero judgement! I work an intense full time job... am a proud mom of two daughters (the C'2 ) and a wife. I truly love to cook but there are days I'm like right so... how do we make tonight low impact to my very frail nerves? If any of you are there (insert shameless previous post advertisement here) You can make ramen noodles an awesome meal in 15 minutes... check it out here





This meal is close, at least in part... if you do not make the pancake you can whip this up in 45 minutes... that is a cooking time, not your time estimate! I got you!






To start, I cut up two chicken breasts into small strips. Throw the chicken in an egg bath then dust them well with a mix of flour, minced onion, paprika, oregano and garlic powder.



Once breaded I pan fried these chicken tenders until they were a golden brown outside.




I then mixed some melted Elias honey, Kikkoman soya sauce and some garlic powder; and poured over the fully cooked chicken to coat fully!

The chicken was set on some white rice!! on to the vegetable chop suey!!



This can be anything you want honestly but I chose red pepper, zucchini, Daikon radish and cremini mushrooms. I sautéed these with sesame oil, soya sauce and avocado oil until soft.



Right here you have a complete meal and you have only expended about 40 minutes. If you multi-task well the pancakes don't add any more time but definitely some labour!


The pancake!


Start with organic white flour and some fresh green onions. Mine are from my garden... such a great perk to walk outside and pluck food from your yard to feed your family! Boil some water to make the warm dough!



Let this cool slightly and then kneed into pancakes while you set up a pan with high heat oil to fry them! Watch closely and flip before they brown too much!




These are best served with a chili oil and cut into quarters. This is great as an appy all by itself or as the side to a meal!



It looks spectacular as a side to a meal too!




The Recipe:


Slice up chicken breast into strips.


Place the strips in a whipped egg bath. You will likely need 2 eggs for 2-4 chicken breasts.


In a separate bowl place 1 cup of organic wheat flour (you could use gluten free as well) 1 Tbsp of garlic powder, 1 Tbsp of paprika and 1 Tbsp of onion flakes, mix together.


Place some oil in a frying pan and heat... you will then dredge the chicken through the flour mix in small batches and place in the frying pan to cook. Do not over fill the pan or the chicken won't crisp up. Once the chicken is all fully cooked.


Melt 1 cup of honey (for 4 breast) and mix with 1/4 cup of soya sauce and 1 Tbsp of garlic powder. Pour this mix over the chicken while wtill liquid and quickly toss in a pan over low heat to fully coat the chicken.


In the mean time cook some white rice as you normally would.


Cut up some vegetables of your liking into bite sized pieces. I chose daikon, cremini mushrooms, red pepper and zucchini. I placed all of these in the frying pan with at least 2 Tbsp of avocado oil and 1 Tbsp of sesame oil and 1 Tbsp of soya sauce to sauté. Modify this as you see fit for flavour intensity.


The pancake is 1 cup of white flour, 1/4 cup of chopped green onion and slowly pour hot water into the mix until you form a dough...I would estimate 1/4 cup but I just slowly free poured so I didn't risk this being soupy.


Roll small chunks into a ball and then flatten out. Cook in a hot pan with a bit of oil and watch to ensure you do not burn. If you like these almost deep fried, add more oil.


The chili oil can be found here


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