Friday Night Chinese!

I eat chinese once a week.  It's from a really nice asian bistro, so it makes me feel fancy.  Fancy bento box filled with beef and broccoli, brown sauce included, sweet carrots, white rice and a fried eggroll.  I eat the whole thing.  So far this week, I  have skipped my fancy feast.

As I meal planned for the end of the week, I thought Teriyaki chicken would appeal to us all so I tried  this recipe.   I am normally not a huge ginger fan but I found this tiny bulb at the grocery store and used a microplane to shred it all.  I hope you try it in your sauce because it really made it!

I served this teriyaki chicken with a quinoa fried rice with roasted cashews.   Their picture of the fried rice is much better than my picture. I did not use bacon, I substituted with roasted cashews.  I also added napa cabbage and two crowns of broccoli.  Honestly, I prepped and cut everything in advance and I was still not happy with the process.  I also clean as I go so I was getting distracted. In addition to that, I was trying really hard to instruct my five year old daughter through the process and she was in charge of cooking the chicken.  What an important role to trust her with.  

As I placed this on the table, only one of my three children ate the quinoa. She was the chicken cooker and said she enjoyed it.  I think it helped that she was part of the process so I encourage you to embrace this opportunity and let your children cook.  One child didn't want to eat at all and the last child ate the chicken and at least tried the quinoa.  My husband and I both enjoyed the quinoa rice and I particularly enjoyed finding a roasted cashew.  The marinade on the chicken was perfect.  I was going to try to marinade them all day but I limited myself to a thirty minute marinade. 

Clean Clean Clean.

Hope you enjoy your clean eating chinese meal.  I enjoyed using ginger and tamari sauce, both new to me.

- XOXO,
Enriching Ego