Stir-fried silver beet and chicken
This Fresh recipe has been extracted from the Yates Garden Fresh Cookbook published by HarperCollins.
The Yates Garden Fresh Cookbook is perfect for gardeners who like to cook and is available from leading book stores.
Silver beet is an ideal vegetable for a stir fry.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 8-10 medium-large leaves of silver beet
- 2-3 Tbsp light cooking oil
- 1 Tbsp pine nuts
- 2 boned, skinless chicken breasts, finely sliced, dusted with cornflour
- 1 medium onion, peeled and finely sliced
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and finely sliced
- 1/2 cup vegetable stock or water
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tsp cornflour
- 1 Tbsp water
- 2 Tbsp sherry
Method:
- If the leaves are very large, strip off the greens and cut the ribs crossways into fine slices. Tear the leaves into large pieces, wash and dry.
- Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan, add the pine nuts and cook, stirring until they colour. Remove immediately and keep warm.
- Add more oil, shake any excess cornflour off the chicken strips, add to the wok or pan and stir-fry until the meat is firm and coloured.
- Push to one side, and add the onion and red pepper slices and cook until soft.
- If the silver beet ribs have been sliced, add now and stir-fry for a minute.
- Add the leaves, followed immediately by the vegetable stock or water, and salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring until the leaves begin to wilt. The chicken strips should be cooked through, but check to make sure; if not, continue to cook, stirring throughout.
- Combine the cornflour, water and sherry, and mix until smooth.
- Add to the wok or pan and stir briskly, then lower the heat, add the pine nuts, cover the wok or pan and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
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Launa
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10:14, 03 June 2010
Quick, easy and tasty.
leonie
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11:29, 03 June 2010
Sounds easy going to make it tonight
Judy
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15:14, 09 August 2010
Love chicken & silverbeet so this sounds like a winner to me. Love this site with so much information on many subjects that I am interested in. Thankyou so much.
Judy
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15:15, 09 August 2010
Love chicken & silverbeet so this sounds like a winner to me. Love this site with so much information on many subjects that I am interested in. Thankyou so much.
jean
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14:30, 20 August 2010
first time on this site and like the sound of chicken & silverbeet as I have a lot growing and always looking for new ways to cook my silverbeet
Debra
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13:03, 23 December 2010
My husband will only eat silverbeet if I stir fry it. We think it is the best way to cook it. The more veges thrown in the better.
Billie
Yates site member
10:47, 29 October 2011
To have violets flower better is it best to cut the leaves right down? I seem to have lots of leaves and hardly any flowers.
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