Aloha Chicken Recipe

Serves: 6

(One portion is 3/4 cup mixture served over 3/4 cup cooked rice.)

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 lb chicken pieces, skinned
• 2 Chicken Bouillon cubes
• 1 tbsp Margarine
• 1 cup Green pepper, diced (1 med. pepper)
• 1 cup Radishes, thinly sliced
• 1 cup Pineapple chunks, canned in water or in its own juice, unsweetened
• 1/2 cup Juice from pineapple or pineapple juice, unsweetened
• 1 tsp Light soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Flour
• dash Pepper
• 4 1/2 cup brown rice, cooked
• approx 1 oz. Chow mein noodles, optional

Preparation:

1. Simmer the chicken in water with bouillon cubes.
2. When the chicken is tender, set aside 1 cup of the broth, remove meat from bones and cut into chunks.
3. While chicken is cooking, melt margarine in frying pan or wok and saute the radishes, green peppers, and pineapple until crisp tender, but not brown.
4. Mix the 1 cup saved chicken broth with 1/2 cup pineapple juice and 1 tsp. soy sauce. Add to pan.
5. Mix flour with 1 Tb. cold water and stir to remove
   lumps.
6. Add flour mixture to vegetables.
7. Add cut up chicken and a dash of pepper, and cook until everything is hot.
8. Serve over rice. If desired, sprinkle chow mein noodles on top.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories 320, fat 7g,
cholesterol 58mg, carbohydrate 39g, sodium 314mg.

Exchanges:

Bread 2 1/2, Meat 2.

Recipe reviewed by Dietitian Kimberly A. Tessmer, RD LD

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