Posted on October 11, 2016 by Jenny Cromack

As personal trainers we often don’t get home until late, and that will often be the same for you too. The last thing we want to do is spend hours cooking and cleaning at this late time so simple, healthy quick meals are always a blessing. Try this peanut butter chicken stir fry for a simple, but tasty and easy evening meal.

Ingredients (2x people):

For the Stir Fry:

• 2 medium chicken breasts, or 3 large thighs.
• Broccoli 1/2 stalk- small stalks
• Carrots x 2 shredded
• Red cabbage x 1 handful shredded
• Mushrooms x 1 handful sliced
• Sugar snap peas 1/2 handful
• Onion half peeled and sliced
• Sliced ginger… about the size of a thumb
• Garlic clove… or two if you’re that way inclined

For the Sauce:

• 3tbsp peanut butter (use a good brand which is organic) popular brands may contain a lot of sugar. And obviously use crunchy!
• 2 tbsp soy sauce… you don’t need to add salt
• 2 tsp of chilli powder
• 2tsp of honey (natural)
• 150 ml of water

Process. 

1. Grab all the ingredients for the sauce, pop them in a bowl and mix mix mix – think of those biceps!
2. Slice/ dice/ shred and chop all of the vegetable.
3. Slice up the chicken breast
4. Heat up pan. add small amount of coconut oil
5. Throw in chicken, garlic, ginger and cook until brown
6. Make sure the pan is crazy hot.. throw in the veg!
7. Once cooked for 3 minutes add the sauce and stir!
8. Sit down at the table, crack a joke that smash the food

There you go a simple peanut butter chicken stir fry which tastes delicious with a capital D!