Sweet and Sour Chicken, Green Beans, and a Failed Sweet Potato...

The other night I attempted to make a somewhat healthy meal of baked chicken, steamed green beans, and baked sweet potatoes. I made the chicken like I always do, the way my dad taught me. I steamed my green beans, and I googled how long to bake sweet potatoes. Apparently I didn't do that good of a job reading the directions because even 15 minutes after the suggested baking time, the potatoes were still hard as a rock! At least the chicken and the green beans were delicious, and the recipes for both are below!

Sweet and Sour Chicken:

Ingredients:

~4 chicken breasts, thawed

~salt

~pepper

~oregano

~garlic salt

~Mrs. Dash original seasoning

~Panda Express sweet chili sauce

Directions:

1. Put all your chicken breasts in a skillet and season with all seasonings listed above (both sides).

2. Pour sweet chili sauce all over the chicken, coating both sides.

3. Cover and cook until cooked through, flipping periodically until both sides are cooked and browned.

The chicken is so extremely easy to make, my dad always used to make it like that, but instead of sweet chili sauce, he used Italian dressing. I literally lived on that chicken from middle school all the way until I got married. I started making the chicken breast for Cory that way until I got sick of it! You can always use different types of dressing or marinades, whatever you want!

Green Beans:

Ingredients:

~enough green beans for whoever you are cooking for (I just grabbed a handful or 2) snapped in half, and ends taken off

~2 cloves garlic, minced

~lemon juice

Directions:

1. Snap all your green beans in half, and break the ends off. Place in steamer (I use the steamer part of Cory's rice cooker).

2. Steam until desired texture. I like my green beans to still have a little crunch, but Don likes them mushy like the canned green beans...

3. Once green beans are steamed, put in a skillet with some butter (1 tbsp). Coat the beans in the butter and kind of fry them up a little bit, where they are browned but not burnt.

4. Toss in your garlic and lemon juice, and some pepper (I don't cook with salt for health reasons, but you can totally add salt as well).

5. Let the beans get coated in the lemony-garlic flavor, then serve!

These two items would have gone great with the sweet potatoes I was hoping we would get to eat. I'm pretty sure I bought yams, because I thought they were the same thing....turns out they cook in totally different ways (ended up giving them to the dogs as treats). Besides the sweet potato fiasco, this meal turned out really good!

Enjoy!

~S

***Please ignore how dirty our stove is....we move out in 28 days