Almond Chicken
"Finally made this dish and was not disappointed. I didn't have almonds on hand so I subbed pecans and crushed those to be medium fine instead...very good. Will probably use them again next time. I also used whole oat flour and cooked the chicken in olive oil. Very good along with seasoned brown and wild rice (as seen in picture)."
photo by DogAndCatDoc
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup tamari soy sauce or 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1⁄2 cup finely ground almonds
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
directions
- In large bowl, combine tamari sauce, ginger and garlic powder.
- Cut chicken into bite size chunks and marinate in tamari mixture while preparing other ingredients.
- In another bowl, combine flour, almonds, salt and pepper and mix well.
- Heat oil in large skillet or wok on high heat.
- When oil is hot, coat the chicken pieces with the flour mixture and add to pan/wok.
- Reduce heat to medium.
- Cover and cook until chicken is done, stirring often (about 20 minutes).
- Serve over brown rice.
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Reviews
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Good recipe! I followed it to a tee except I'm pretty sure I only used about 2 lbs of chicken pieces (boneless, skinless breast & thigh meat). I think I would've ran out of dredging mixture if I had used 3 lbs. After the chicken was cooked, I removed it from the pan and made a quick sauce with some apricot jam, soy sauce, hot pepper flakes, rice vinegar and the pan drippings and served it with steamed rice. Yummy and will definitely make again! -
I'm so happy to find this recipe. It is yummy. My computer crashed and I thought the recipe was lost (I got it off another site). I used pecans in place of the almonds as that's what I had on hand. I also used regular flour again what I had on hand. I didn't have peanut oil so I used olive oil. Thanks for posting this recipe! Christine (internetnut)
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I'm so happy to find this recipe. It is yummy. My computer crashed and I thought the recipe was lost (I got it off another site). I used pecans in place of the almonds as that's what I had on hand. I also used regular flour again what I had on hand. I didn't have peanut oil so I used olive oil. Thanks for posting this recipe! Christine (internetnut)
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