Happy New Year EVERYONE!!!
So I've been experimenting a lot with food combinations... The other day I made colored pancakes.. well, I used the same recipe for red velvet pancakes, but as I was making it, I was like why stick to red, so I made purple (combination of blue and red colors), green and red velvet.. Was pretty yummy.. anyway, I digress...
I love stir fry and I love dodo (fried/baked plantain). So wanted to see what it would taste like if I combined both of 'em and that was how chicken-dodo stir fry was born.
I marinaded my chicken in homemade teriyaki marinade and cooked the chicken in the marinade, then added the plantain and the veggies and cooked everything together.
The recipe for my homemade Teriyaki marinade is below, but u can also use store bought teriyaki (use the kikkoman brand). But u still need to add ginger, garlic, brown sugar, thyme, black pepper and a little bit of soy sauce and sesame oil.
Ingredients For Teriyaki Marinade:
2tbs Soy sauce
2tsp Sesame oil
3/4 cup Sake (Dry rice Wine)
1/4 cup Mirin (sweet sake)
piece of grated Ginger (you can replace with 2tbs ginger powder)
2 chopped Garlic cloves (you can also replace with 2tsp minced garlic or garlic powder)
3 tsp brown sugar
1tsp dried thyme
pinch of black pepper
Do not use any salt.. the sake and soy sauce have enough salt in 'em
mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and add the chicken to it.
I used boneless/skinless chicken thighs, because the thighs have more flavor than chicken breast. but u can use chicken breast if you want to. cut the chicken into strips. I am very lazy so I just use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut the chicken. steep the chicken into the marinade and allow to sit for about 20mins (or until you're done frying the plantain)
Ingredients for plantain portion:
1 ripe plantain
1 1/2 cup of oil to fry
pinch of salt
As the Chicken marinades, slice and cube the plantain. salt slightly and fry until golden brown. Alternatively, you can put the plantain in an oven. grease a grill pan and place cubed plantain evenly on the tray. Do not stack the plantains on top one another. set oven at 350 for about 15mins. and turn for another 10mins.. until golden brown.
Ingredients for Stir-fry
1 medium onion
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
a bunch of scallions (green onions/spring onions)
1/4lb of sugar snap peas
3 cloves of garlic
1tbs red pepper flakes
Directions
You can also add mushrooms or any of your favorite veggies.
Thinly slice the peppers long from top to bottom. Also slice onions and chop up the garlic. Cut the green portion of the scallions into two and thinly slice the white portion. just rinse the sugar snap peas.
slightly grease your pan and add the marinated chicken.. allow to cook for about 5mins until the chicken caramelizes. The brown sugar in the marinade will caramelize the chicken.
Cook for a few minutes, then add onion, garlic and the bottom white portion of the scallions. Allow to cook for a few minutes and then add plantain. Then add the other veggies stir and allow to cook for another 5mins
You may add some chopped basil at this point if you wish.
Chicken-dodo stir fry is ready to consume... Enjoy :)
Note: You can use the same recipe for stir-fry, just remove the plantain portion!
