Monday, January 5, 2015

Tender Sweet and Spicy Chicken

This is my new favorite chicken dish. That mostly stems from not having to do much prep work. Nothing too attention hoarding. But I am crazy and add like 7 steps to this that you could naturally skip. Here is the recipe all spelled out.

2 whole chicken breasts
1 carton of chicken or beef broth (mixing your animals is delicious).
1/2 cup of honey
and a sprinkle of red chili flakes, salt, curry, and some garlic

    First step is pretty simple. It is the actually more simple than I usually prescribe for my recipes. You take your two whole chicken breasts, and put them in a big two handle pot. Fill the pot with water, at least 1 inch over the top of your chicken, and place it on the stove on high. Let the boil for awhile. When I say awhile, I mean enough time to go do something else without worrying about burning your food. Once some time has gone by, drain the chicken and place the cooked chicken back in the pot (or you can cut it up on a cutting board however you like). Once in the pot, I shred the chicken up. This method is more laborious than just cutting it up, so if you want to cut it up, be my guest. Soon I wont want to shred it up anymore, and you'll be the smarter one.
    Next you put in about 1 cup of chicken broth to help cook it in some flavor. We boiled it with water because we needed a lot of liquid and its cheaper than using broth. Now you can use the money you saved on drugs or whatever else you'd like to do for fun. Now this is where you add the spices. After we stir in the spices we  are going to let that simmer for about 10 minutes.
    So you've checked your clash of clans village, played a few rounds of soccer stars, lets go see how the chicken is doing. At this point everything smells amazing, and you would have been hard pressed to have messed up. Reduce heat to low. Now comes that 1/2 cup of honey you've been dipping your finger in for the last 30 minutes. If there is any of that left, put it in the pot and stir it up. You will want to let that cook in for about 5 minutes. Then go back, cover the lid, and turn off the heat. We want to just let that sit in there until before bed, or the next morning if you are gross like me.
    The other great way you can make it spicy is add some sriracha. I didn't do it this time because I ran out and Sprouts doesn't carry it. I'm not sure I want to go there anymore. Who doesn't carry sriracha at this point?

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