Honey Chicken

This is a dish I have actually made a couple times before, but it had been a while. A while as in, I think this was one of the first recipes I tried out from Pinterest.

The original recipe came from "MMM...CAFE". She offers a crock pot and an oven version on her website. I have always done the oven version so that is what I am sharing with you here.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 pound chicken (of your choice) A pound works just fine.
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
• 1 Tbsp chopped onion (or 1/2 Tbsp onion flakes)
• 1 Tbsp ketchup
• 1 Tbs. vegetable oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes I skip this part.

Directions:

• Dice chicken and season both sides with salt and pepper
• Place in 8x8 dish
• Pour sauce over chicken and bake at 350 for 20 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes.

I served mine over brown rice with a side of Edamame, which is like crack for me. It's a good mix of savory and sweet and good for leftovers.

Note: I didn't get this recipe from a Fibro cookbook, but I am tagging it as a Fibro recipe because it has a lot of the same ingredients that most of the Fibro recipes use. 

Chicken N Broccoli Stir Fry

I'm not sure I have shared with you that K has Fibromyalgia. It's a crappy disease to have and one of the things that is supposed to help it is the things you eat. K recently had a pretty gnarly flare up so we have been trying to do things a little different. This recipe is one of those things. I got it out of a book called, "The Fibromyalgia Cookbook." Clever name, I know.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup low-sodium chicken broth
• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast - cut into strips
• 1 head broccoli - cut into bite size pieces
• 2 carrots - cut into strips
• 1 large onion - cut into large slices
• 1  teaspoon sesame oil (optional because I didn't use it.)

Directions:

• Combine the soy sauce, garlic, and 2 tablespoons of chicken broth in a medium bowl. Add chicken to the broth mixture. I let this kind of marinate while I cut my veggies.
• Cook the chicken in a large nonstick skillet with the broth mixture for 5 minutes.
• Remove chicken with slotted spoon, leaving the liquid in the skillet.
• Add the broccoli, carrots, onion, and remaining broth. Cover and cook for 4 minutes.
• Add the chicken and cook for 2 minutes. Sprinkle with oil and serve.

I served mine over brown rice. The flavor was good, but I would have liked more sauce and the sauce to coat the chicken and veggies more. The only other thing I would do different is more broccoli! Otherwise it was a tasty dish, and healthy!