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Apple Ginger Chicken

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Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese

Equipment

  • Skillet or Small crock pot

Ingredients
 
 

  • 2 Chicken breasts
  • 1 Tablespoon oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup apple juice
  • 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 3 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 2 Tablespoon cornstarch
  • 2 Tablespoon water
  • 1 small bag frozen vegetables (optional)
  • Rice or Noodles (to serve it over)

Instructions
 

  • Heat 1 Tablespoon oil in medium sized skillet over medium to medium high heat.
  • Cut chicken into bit sized cubes and add to skillet. Sprinkle with pepper and a dash of salt
  • Cook chicken until browned and no longer pink (about 10 minutes).
  • While chicken is cooking, in a small bowl or measuring cup, combine apple juice, soy sauce, water, brown sugar, ground ginger, garlic, and crushed red pepper. Stir until smooth.
  • In a small dish, mix cornstarch with a couple tablespoons of water. Add the cornstarch mixture into the sauce mixture, and stir.
  • Once chicken is cooked, add the sauce & frozen veggies (if using) to the skillet. Stir to coat the chicken and veggies. Turn heat down to low, and simmer for 5-10 minutes (until the sauce thickens up).
  • Serve over rice or wide egg noodles

Notes

This can also be made in a crock pot:
  • When making it in a crock pot, do not add the 1/4 cup water to the sauce ingredients. (The additional water makes the sauce too thin when using the crock pot, but is needed when making it on the stovetop).
  • Add the chicken and sauce mixture into the crock pot, and let cook on low for 4 hours. 
  • When making it in a crock pot, I also add 1-2 sliced carrots to the pot at the same time I add the chicken About 1 hour before the end of cooking, I also add sliced a red bell pepper to the crock pot and stir in. 
If you don't generally keep apple juice on hand, use frozen apple;  mix 1 T frozen apple juice with 3 T of water.
  • It's easy to scoop the apple juice concentrate from the can while it's still frozen. 
  • Then I just put the lid back on the apple juice can, place it in a gallon size zip lock baggie and store it in the freezer until the next time I make this recipe. 
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