Cooking Chicken Easy..

[goodkid]

This easy recipe is not meant for everyone...
It is geared mainly to those who don't have much experience in the kitchen and need a good way to cook chicken.

What you need

Sharp knife.
Cutting board. (EDIT: i recommend not using a wooden one)
a bowl or two for mixing.
A good frying pan. (Ikea has really great teflon pans for cheap)
Spatula (don't use a metal spatual in a teflon pan, it'll scratch it up.)
some plastic containers for storing.
Chicken (duh)
Veggies (Try to use fresh veggies, i only had frozen on hand right now)
Soy Sauce (optional)
Red Wine Vinnegar (you can buy this in large quantities for cheap)
Olive Oil.
Spices.



First we start by removing the chicken from the packaging and thoroughly washing it in luke warm water. This is to remove any surface crap that we don't want on the final product.

Take out a good sized cutting board and chop the chicken to whatever size you like. Keep in mind that the smaller you cut the pieces the faster it will cook. But, when you are done frying the chicken if the pieces are too small, it will be a b*tch measuring every little scrap, feel me?

Okay... so we cut up the chicken and put it in a bowl like so:


The next thing we do is mix in a little Soy sauce for flavour (not necessary, just something i like.. Use the low sodium kind if you can)..
Then take some Red wine vinnegar and pour it over the chicken..
Slosh it about until the chicken soaks up the majority of the juice..
Now add some spices. Anything you like. I put in a little garlic powder or sun dried tomatoes.

At this point it should look like this.. (i know not much different than the first one.) you don't want it to be swimming in the vinnegar.


Okay start heating up the pan at medium and put a bit of olive oil in there.. Not the whole bottom of the pan, the chicken has lots of juice in it so it will so it will use that while cooking. Just enough that you can spread it around with your spatula.

A good way to test if the pan is ready is to put a little water on you finger and flick it into the pan. if she sizzles and disapears, it's ready!

Toss your chicken in the pan and spread it around. It should start to whiten quite quickly. After about 4 minutes or so it may look done, but look closely. It might have spots that aren't cooked all the way through.

The way i test if the chicken is done is by using the spatula to split it.
If the chicken is done it should split apart. If its not ready, its will hold together.

It depends on your oven.. So keep a watchful eye on the chicken so that it doesn't burn. Especially if you have sliced it thinly.
When its just about ready it should look something like this:


You may notice at this point that the pan is getting pretty dry..
Add a little more olive oil. Not too much, just enough to wet the pan.
The pan is ready for the veggies.


I used frozen veggies for this, but i really recommend you get your hands on some fresh greens.
Start out by putting the thicker vegetables in first, they will take longer to cook. Things like carrots will take longer to soften up than something like bean sprouts.

When your veggies are cooked through you are done!

I use ziplock boxes and separate my measured chicken and veggies into them. If you are using a scale, just put the ziplock container on it and zero the scale, that way you can get an exact measurement of your food.


I know i am kickin it old school with that scale, but it works.

Once you have all of your containers filled, let them sit for a couple minutes before you stick them into the fridge.


In my personal experience. Cooking the chicken this way has allowed me to keep it in the fridge for up to 5 days!

Hope the visuals give you guys an idea of how to do this..
It's very easy once you have done it a few times.