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winner winner chicken dinner!

whenever I don't feel like slaving too much in the kitchen and want something fast and cheap, my go to option is to get a whole Roasted Chicken. Yep, we love our chicken, but you got to admit sometimes store bough roast can be a tad bland and dry. In cases like this I dress it up a bit and throw in some veggies and a sauce to give it more flavor and liven it up. Sweet Chili Chicken Stir Fry ingredients: - half a roasted chicken deboned and the meat cut into strips - 1 cup broccoli florets and stems - 1 medium carrot sliced - 1/2 cup broth or water - 1/2 cup of sweet chili sauce (or more according to your taste) how to: - just toss everything in a work cooking until veggies are crisp tender - best served with hot steamed rice  no more bland and dry chicken! this one is saucy, sweet and spicy like chinese take out

no bones about it

Very seldom do I cook fish at home, not that I don't like fish - I do, but my brother (who complains a lot about my cooking) finds eating fish risky and a lot of work, what with the business of picking off all those small fish bones. So I am limited to using fillets and am glad I found one recipe that I tweaked to make a version of: Saucy Fish Fillet Ingredients: - half kilo fish fillets - 1 medium red bell pepper cut into cubes - 1 medium green bell pepper cut into cubes - half a cup broccoli florets - salt - pepper - 1 onion chopped - 2 cloves garlic minced - 2 tbsp hoisin sauce - 2 tbsp oyster sauce - 1 tbsp chili garlic sauce How to: - cut the fillets into one inch squares, season with salt and pepper then dredge with flour - pan fry till golden brown, drain on paper towels as set aside - heat wok with little oil and stir- fry onion and garlic until aromatic, add the veggies. - add the 3 sauces with half a cup of water, stir fry until veggies are crisp te...