Chicken
& Pineapple Serves 4 Preparation time:
15 minutes Cooking time: 25
minutes
Ingredients
200g Rice
400g Chicken Breast (1 per person) - diced
1 Onion - diced
1 piece of Root Ginger - diced
2 Cloves of Garlic - diced
1 Tin Pineapple in Natural Juice (Slices
or chunks)
1tbls Cooking Oil
1 heaped tsp Cornflour
1 tsp Sesame Oil
1/2 tbls Light Soy Sauce
1/2 tsp Chinese 5 Spice
1/4 - 1/2 tsp Sugar
Pepper
Method
1. Heat oil in a Wok.
2. Lightly fry onions, garlic and
ginger for 2 - 3 minutes
3. Add diced chicken breast and stir
fry for 5 minutes or until chicken is cooked.
4. Drain the juice from your tin of
Pineapple into a glass and put to one side, (you will need it later),
if using slices you will need to chop them into chunks.
5. Add cornflour to pineapple juice
and stir.
6. Add pineapple chunks and juice to
wok, stir and reduce heat.
7. Put Rice on to cook.
8. Add Chinese 5 spice, sugar, sesame oil and soy sauce. Stir.
9. Season with pepper.
10. Simmer for 10 minutes and serve
on a bed of rice.
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Step 10
Tips
You can get reduced salt soy sauce to
keep that salt intake low.
When using pineapple slices drain the
juice and then chop them in the tin.
You can always substitute granules
for the ginger, onions or garlic.
Finally for a more authentic Chinese
taste you could always serve on Egg Fried
Rice
