Not chicken and rice! From my kitchen
An interesting recipe that serves 4 – 6
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked rice
- 2 cups water
- 1 tsp chicken stock powder
- 1 box Fry’s chicken style strips
- 30 ml oil for frying
- 250 g fresh button mushrooms cleaned and sliced
- 1 pepper of your choice I like red, the green and yellow work just as well
- 40 ml oil for sauce
- 1 tsp minced fresh garlic or ½ tsp dried crushed garlic
- ½ cup corn start Maizena mixed with 1 cup water or ½ cup water and ½ cup milk
- 1-2 tsp ground black pepper or to taste
- 1/8 tsp salt or to taste
- 250 ml fresh cream or Orly whip or Alpro single
- Nutmeg to garnish optional
Instructions
To cook the rice:
- Place rice, water and stock powder into a pot and bring to boil (covered), then reduce the heat and cook on low for 15-20 minutes.
To cook the sauce:
- Heat your oil and fry the chicken style strips for 6 minutes, put aside.
- Fry the mushrooms in the same oil for about 2 minutes before adding your pepper. Fry for a further 5 minutes. Add it to the strips and set aside.
- In a large pot add your 40mls of oil, garlic, maizena mixture and stir until the sauce begins to thicken.
- Add your cream (or substitute), strips, mushrooms, black pepper and salt. Simmer for a further 2 minutes.
- Dish up your rice and serve the ‘chicken’ mixture on top of the rice, sprinkle with a little nutmeg.
- Ready to eat.
- +/- 300 Calories per serving
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