Oriental Coconut Chicken Meal Deal

I'm always trying to find new ways to cook our very basic, easy to throw together, has all the right things to be well balanced and nutritional, boring meal. Chicken. Rice. Green Beans. ((gasp!!)) I know, dang near swear words. Lol. If you grew up in a home where your mother dieted at all, the appearance of a dish containing chicken, rice, and green beans (corn back in the day before corn suddenly was no longer consider a veggie!! lol!!) marked the beginning of nutritional wellness. I'm not sure if these three items provoke the same twisted face of disgust in your home as it does ours, but I wanted to share a creative way to jazz up this dismal dish, nonetheless.

Oriental Coconut Chicken

2 packages of drumsticks
1/4 cup of Soy Sauce
1/4 cup of Coconut Milk
1 Tb. of Water
1 tsp. Ground Ginger
2 Tb. Olive oil
2 Tb. Brown Sugar (or Sucanant or Honey)
2 Garlic Cloves minced
1/2 Tb. Thyme
Pinch Red Pepper Flakes
Pepper to taste

Combine all Ingredients (except chicken) in a bowl
Mix Well

Coat pan with oil or spray
Add Chicken
Salt and Pepper both sides.
 

Braise both sides of Chicken

 

Add well mixed sauce

 

Cover and simmer on MEDIUM for 15-20 mins

or until chicken is completely cooked

'Shake' pan around and flip sticks

occasionally to coat in the sauce. 

 

Coconut Cream Rice

1 can of Light Coconut Cream
1-1/2 cups of water
2 cups of rice (I use a blend of white and brown)





Add entire can of milk and water to pan.
Burner should be on HIGH.
 

Add rice mixture to milk and water mixture.
Bring to a hard boil.
Reduce heat to LOW!
Cover with lid.
 

Cook on LOW for 25-30 mins
Toss rice with fork when done.

 

Sauteed Green Beans

1/2 medium Sweet Onion
1 bag of Frozen Green Beans
2 Tb. Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

Slice Onions

 

Saute in Olive oil over MEDIUM heat
till tender and browned

Add Frozen Green Beans to pan.

 

Stir to coat with onion and oil.
Cover and cook on MEDIUM till green beans are bright green and tender.
Stir occasionally to coat greens in onion and oil.

 



Plate it up!! Serve with a bit of Sriracha
Spoon some sauce from chicken pan over chicken and/or rice if desired.
No butter needed for the rice because the coconut milk makes it super creamy
and no butter needed for the green beans because they are coated in the olive oil onion mixture. 

Enjoy!!