Did you know that La Choy sauces and most products are gluten free? We love their soy sauce, because of it's reasonable price as compared to other sauces... and they also have a Sweet and Sour sauce, a Teriyaki sauce, and the most recent to come out: Orange Ginger sauce! I saw this at the store and grabbed it immediately.We LOVE orange chicken so I thought this would be an easy way to do this at home, gluten free! It turned out great. Here's what I did:
Easy, Gluten-Free, Orange Chicken Stir Fry
What you need:
La Choy Orange Ginger Sauce (can substitute any gluten free or La Choy sauce you'd like)
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 bag frozen asian vegetables (can use fresh vegetables if you would like, but this is so easy!)
1 tsp minced garlic
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Optional: Fresh pineapple or mandarin oranges
Serve over white rice (I use Frozen Organics ThaiJasmine White Rice, 3 minutes in the microwave and delicious, they also make brown rice)
What you do:
1. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in skillet. Cook chicken breasts until cooked throughout, seasoning with salt and pepper to your liking. When chicken is cooked, dice it into smaller pieces and place it back in the skillet.
2. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in separate skillet, and place vegetables in skillet with 1 tsp minced garlic. Cook about 5-7 minutes if frozen. If fresh, they may cook faster. 3. Add about 1/2 cup La Choy Orange Ginger sauce to chicken skillet. Heat with chicken, and add optional fruit (I used fresh pineapple).
4. Transfer vegetables to skillet with sauce/chicken/fruit when sauce is heated. Mix together and continue to heat until heated through. 5. Serve over white or brown rice.
It was delicious! Scott finished a HUGE plate and ate the rest for leftovers the next day. It was very easy too. You can certainly use fresh garlic or fresh vegetables, but if you're looking for something to do in about 20 minutes, you can buy these ingredients ahead of time! I can't say enough about the rice we use either. I get it at Dominick's, and it's about $4.00 for a box of 3 bags. Each bag of rice is PERFECT for 2 people, and it is the closest I've ever found to chinese restaurant's "sticky rice." It cooks perfectly and tastes great.Remember, you can use any La Choy sauce. We were so excited to try this one. It's very good! I think the fresh fruit made it, personally. Next time I will probably add mandarin oranges.
Enjoy!
Rice is really easy, Chinese restaurants use short grain sushi rice. You can find it at most supermarkets for very little. I like Calrose and rose brand myself. And you can get a decent ricecooker for about $30 at Costco or target. I highly recommend it if you plan to eat a lot of rice, it's way less expensive than the packaged stuff you're currently buying. My husbands Chinese so we eat rice with almost every meal. We'd go broke buying the prepackaged stuff all the time!
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