The Olympia Kitchen

Asian-style chicken and green beans

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Asian-style chicken and green beans is a quick, healthy, and easy meal. It's typically served with rice or quinoa on the side. This dish is good for a cool, rainy night that calls for comfort food.

Ingredients

2 boned and skinned chicken breasts, cut into cubes
5 tablespoons of toasted sesame seed oil, divided
1 sweet onion finely diced
2 cups of fresh green beans, trimmed and rinsed
4 pods of fresh garlic, finely diced or pressed
5 tablespoons of soy sauce (we use low-sodium)
3 tablespoons of mirin
1 tablespoon of ginger
4 tablespoons of Chinese Five Spice blend

Instructions

In a large skillet on medium heat, place about 2 tablespoons of toasted sesame seed oil. Let the oil warm up on the stovetop, and add the diced onion, followed by the garlic. Once the onion begins to turn translucent, add the green beans. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add the ginger and stir again. Splash in the soy sauce as you continue to stir. The beans will cook a bit more rapidly.  Cook for a few minutes more, and add the mirin. Stir and place a top on the beans, turning the heat off. 

In a separate frying pan, add the remainder of the sesame oil, and heat it up on the medium setting of your stovetop. Add the raw chicken pieces. As the chicken begins to cook, add the Chinese Five Spice blend and mix it into the chicken so that the spice lightly coats each piece of chicken.  Once the chicken is cooked, in a few minutes, move the chicken off of the stove and combine the chicken into the green beans on the stove. Stir everything together to combine and cook together for a minute or two over medium heat.

Serve with rice or quinoa.

Enjoy!

Shannon Beigert is a chef and baker who loves entertaining guests at her Olympia home. If you want to let her know that this recipe worked well for you, send her a note at shannon@theJOLTnews.com

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  • DRamsey2

    This combination of ingredients sounds great and I have almost all of them! The 4 tablespoons of Chinese 5-spice powder called for in the recipe -1/4 cup - is more than I have. My spice jar is half full, and it's still not quite enough. Is this amount a typo?

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