SKILLET SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN ( WHOLE30 )

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Bring the family back to the table for this Whole30-friendly Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken that’s sure to please!

In spite of the fact that I telecommute at my fantasy work, I’m the same than some other working guardian out there. I frequently skip snacks, eat while noting messages, feel regretful for removing time from my workday to make a beeline for the rec center, and I regularly worry over what’s for supper when I haven’t set aside a few minutes for feast preparing or when life confuses me. I’m basically the normal, over-worked, over-planned cutting edge parent so I understand what a battle it is to get the whole family around the table to share a supper. However, try to keep your hat on, it merits the exertion since it’s frequently the possibly time in the day when I can associate with my children without the interruption of online media, carpools, and so forth

So when our companions at Tessemae’s connected and requested that we make a supper that the entire family would partake in TOGETHER, I seized the opportunity to share this Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken utilizing their Whole30-affirmed Organic Ketchup. In spite of a speedy and full life, family suppers are a non-debatable for me. Growing up a “hook key child” with separated from guardians, I figured out how to cook at a youthful age so I could help my single-parent father eat on the table for our family consistently on the grounds that it was a non-debatable for him also. The time my sibling and I went through with our father preparing suppers and eating together is something we both esteem right up ’til today.

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The key here will be arranging and getting ready basic dinners that require fundamental abilities like hacking, estimating, sauteing, and so forth like this Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken. It’s made in one skillet and doesn’t need any fine mincing or julienning. Regardless of whether your children are excessively youthful to securely use a blade (revelation: mine have been utilizing genuine blades like this one, with oversight, since kindergarten and we’ve just had one awful cut), you can give them different undertakings like washing the chime peppers, stripping the onion, estimating flavors, whisking together the sauce, or mixing everything in the dish. Obviously, wellbeing first, however don’t be hesitant to allow them to attempt. You’ll be there in a jiffy to help if things go amiss and basically put in the event that you don’t include them, they will not learn.

I truly trust you’ll go along with me with an end goal to prepare more suppers together and give this family-satisfying Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken an attempt. As should be obvious, the demonstration of cooking and eating together works out positively past actual sustenance. Imparting a feast to those we cherish is useful for the spirit as well, so get in there and concoct something tasty together this week, mmmkay??

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Ingredients

  • 1½ lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 1 Tbsp. + 2 tsp. avocado oil (or other cooking fat of choice) 
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/8 tsp. black pepper
  • 1½ Tbsp. arrowroot starch
  • 1 14-ounce can pineapple chunks in 100% juice; drained and 1/2 cup juice reserved
  • 2 medium bell peppers, any color, cut into small chunks
  • 1 small sweet onion, cut into small chunks
  • 2 medium carrots, peeled and very thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup Tessemae’s Organic Ketchup
  • 1/2 cup pineapple juice (reserved from pineapple after draining) 
  • 3 Tbsp. rice vinegaror apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp. ground dried ginger
  • 2 green onions, thinly sliced (optional) 
  • Sesame seeds for garnish (optional) 

Instructions

  1. Place a large skillet over medium-high heat. While the skillet heats up, place chicken chunks in a bowl and toss with 1/2 Tbsp. arrowroot starch, salt, and pepper.
  2. When skillet is hot, add 1 Tbsp. oil and reduce heat slightly. Add chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes without stirring. Flip chicken pieces when they release easily from the pan and are lightly browned. Continue cooking until chicken is almost cooked through. Transfer chicken to a plate and return pan to medium-high heat.
  3. Add 2 tsp. oil to hot pan then add sweet onions and carrots. Sauté, stirring frequently, 4-5 minutes or until vegetables start to soften.
  4. Add bell peppers and continue to cook an additional 5-6 minutes, stirring frequently.
  5. While the veggies are cooking, combine ketchup, rice vinegar, garlic powder, and dried ginger. In a separate bowl, whisk 1 Tbsp. arrowroot starch into pineapple juice, then whisk this into the ketchup mixture to make the sauce.
  6. When veggies are crisp-tender, add chicken and pineapple chunks to the pan. Add sauce and cook, stirring, 1-2 minutes or until sauce thickens.
  7. Remove from heat, sprinkle with sliced green onions and sesame seeds, if using.