Spiced braised chicken

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2½ cup Water
½ cup Soy sauce
¼ cup Rice wine or chicken broth
2 tablespoons Sugar
½ teaspoon Aniseed or fennel seed
1 Cinnamon stick
Zest of one orange
4 Slices of fresh ginger
¼ teaspoon Red pepper flakes
4 Green onions, sliced thin
4 Chicken breast halves, boned and skin removed
2 teaspoons Cornstarch in 1 tb water
3 cups Rice, cooked
1 Green onion, sliced thin for garnish

Directions

In a large pan combine water, soy sauce, sugar, aniseed, cinnamon, zest, ginger, green onions and red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for ten minutes. Add chicken and simmer for about 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from pan. Strain 2 cups of the pan juices and bring to a boil in a skillet. Add cornstarch mix and boil a few minutes to thicken. Add chicken, stirring to coat and heat through.

Serve chicken and sauce over cooked rice and garnish with green onions.

Per serving = 280 calories, 22 g protein, 2 g fat, 40 g carbo, 847 mg sodium. (1 g saturated fat, 1 g monounsaturated fat, 49 mg cholesterol).

NOTE: it is easiest to remove zest with a vegetable peeler, when needing strips.

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