Cooking Never Gets “Olds”: Friday Night Chinese
Teriyaki Chicken Over Rice
Servings: 6
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Ingredients:
- 3 chicken breasts
- ½ cup mushrooms
- ½ cup broccoli
- 2 whole carrots
- 1 bell pepper
- 2 cups soy sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
Recipe:
- Cut chicken breasts into medium sized chunks.
- Prepare your pan with a few drops of oil and turn on medium heat.
- Place the chicken in the heated pan to cook.
- Cook the chicken until no more pink is showing.
- Chop your vegetables. (Mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, and bell pepper.)
- Once the chicken is done cooking, add the vegetables to cook with the meat.
- While everything is cooking together, prepare the sauce. Add the soy sauce and brown sugar to a small pan over high heat, wait for it to boil.
- Once the sauce is boiling add ¾ sauce over the vegetable/meat mixture and let simmer over the mixture to turn into a glaze.
- Serve over rice or pad thai noodles if desired. Use extra sauce for anyone wanting some extra flavor. Enjoy.
Fried Crab-Rangoon
Makes: about 25
Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
- 1 bar of cream cheese
- 1 bag of imitation crab meat
- 1 package wonton wrappers
- ⅓ cup chopped chives (freeze-dried or fresh)
Recipe:
- Heat oil up in fryer or cast iron skillet.
- Mix cream cheese, chopped crab meat, and chives in a medium bowl.
- Starting making crab-rangoon. Dip one finger in water then cover 2 connecting sides (in the shape of an L) on a wonton wrapper. Add a small drop of the cream cheese mixture to the center of the square wrapper and fold to make a triangle and pinch edges together.
- Fry until golden brown and crispy on both sides.
- Dip in sweet n’ sour sauce if desired and enjoy.
Tips and Tricks:
- Always wash your hands after dealing with raw meat.
- Simmer means bringing a sauce to a boil then let the sauce cook over low heat until reaching desired consistency. (In this case, a glaze for the mixture.)
- When cooking you need to be very careful around hot oil. Before adding in finished crab-rangoon test oil heat by using a plain wonton wrapper and if the oil starts to bubble around the edges of the wrapper and start to cook, your oil is hot enough.
- Heating up cream cheese for 15 seconds before adding and mixing the crab-rangoon ingredients can make it softer and easier to mix.
- If you wet the edges correctly when making the crab-rangoon the wrapper will have no issue sticking together.
- Be careful when making the crab-rangoon, if you add too much mixture the wonton wrapper won’t close and will not fry correctly.