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Cilantro-Lime Chicken Stir Fry
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Ever since having a stir-fry with a cilantro-lime sauce at a Mongolian BBQ, I have been wanting to try my own. I read a lot of different sauce recipes and kinda-sorta-maybe settled on this one. I only roughly followed it. Here is what I ended up using
I initiallydidn't have the lime but then I decided to add it. I then used the immersion blender to make it into a sauce. Between the lime and the vinegar, it was super strong. So I added the tsp of sugar. Finally, right before cooking, I realized I hadn't added any type of salt so I added some plus the soy.
I pounded out a 2/3 lbs chicken breast and chopped that. Meanwhile I used this recipe/technique[@rev] to make brown rice (but I 2/3 x the recipe)
My aim was to use the Kitchn's techniquesto make the stir-fry but I ended up just winging it. I cooked the chicken and tossed it too much that it didn't really get a good sear. I was good about moving more or less cooked parts around and controlling what got cooked and how much.
I took it out of the pan and added more oil. I then added the veggies. I again tossed too much. It was becoming clear that they weren;t cooking so I started adding water.The idea was to steam them and keep moving which veggies were in the small pool of water. After a few minutes, they started to be cooked but I had added too much water. I was able to carefully drain it.
Finally, I brought everything (but the rice) together and got it all hot and well coated. I distributed the stir-fry to the bowl with the rice. However, I underestimated how much it would make so I moved to a larger bowl. And I mixed the rice in very well.
Overall, it was ok. I think the sauce could have used more flavor. And I still didn't get the veggies to have a good sear. They were well cooked though. Overall, I would say that my technique is poor but acceptable. The sauce could use work!
The veggies were
Vegetable Stir-Fry with Spicy Cilantro Herb Sauce(from Honest Cooking)
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How to Stir Fry (from The Kitchn)
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Blending the sauce. So green!:
Original WP Post ID: 8666
Original WP Pub Date: 2014-08-10_211022