Spicy Honey Lime Chicken and Edamame Rice
Cooking really should be fun, not stressful. But these days, it’s kind of difficult.
On the one hand, you’ve got the papers and the magazines and the cooking shows, all telling you how important it is to give your family homemade meals with fresh, natural ingredients. But on the other hand, you’ve got work, phones, e-mails, and a whole family’s worth of busy schedules to coordinate. With all that going on, who has time to cook from scratch?
And the thing is, it’s not even really the cooking that takes the time. It’s all the prep work you have to do ahead of time. If you had to go down to the farmers’ market every day for fresh produce, and then haul it home and chop it all up before you could even light the stove, you’d never get dinner on the table before the kids’ bedtime.
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But what if you had someone to do all that shopping and prep work for you? What if the ingredients for the dish you wanted just showed up at your door, ready to go, and all you had to do was cook them?
That’s exactly what Terra’s Kitchen does. They call their service Recipes for Real Life, Each week, you pick out the dishes you want to cook from their menu. They send you all the ingredients for those meals, pre-portioned and pre-chopped, in a handy climate-controlled vessel. So each night, all you have to do is the fun part: the cooking!
I got a chance to try this recently, and let me tell you, it’s pretty cool. Check it out: here’s their nifty little vessel, right at my door, with my whole week’s worth of menus in it. See how everything’s all pre-chopped and ready to go?
For my first dinner, I picked out their Spicy Lime Chicken and Edamame Rice. Everything was ready to go in the tray: chicken, rice, edamame, scallions, and seasonings. All the ingredients were fresh, and the chicken was humanely farmed, with no antibiotics, no hormones, no GMOS – nothing you’d have to feel bad about feeding to your family.
So with all that ready at hand, all I had to do was start cooking! I whipped up the rice, seasoned and cooked the chicken, and put it all together on plates. And just like, that, I had a homemade, healthy meal in 30 minutes.
This is just one of the many healthy dishes you can make with Terra’s Kitchen. They’ve got dozens of recipes on their menu, all specially picked out so you can make them with what’s fresh and in season. There are choices for just about every diet, including vegetarian, gluten-free, and paleo.
So if you really love to cook from scratch, but you just don’t have the time, I think this is a great service to try. Your family gets fresh, healthy meals, and you get all the fun of cooking without all the stress. Let me walk you through this yummy recipe I made!
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Spicy Honey Lime Chicken and Edamame Rice
(printable recipe at bottom of post)
1. In a small saucepan, over high heat, bring 1 and 1/4 cups water and 1/4 teaspoon salt to a boil. Stir in rice and return to a boil. Stir in rice and return to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Turn off heat and let sit, covered for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
2. Zest lime. Cut lime in half. Chop cilantro (reserve a pinch for garnish). Now let’s make the sauce! While rice is cooking, start the sauce. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, ginger, garlic, honey srirach, juice from half the lime, a quarter of the zest, a quarter of the cilantro, 2 teaspoons canola oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. (Reserve 2 teaspoons of mixture)
3. Coat chicken: Add the chicken to the bowl with the sauce. Turning to coat. Let sit for 5 minutes.
4. Cook Chicken: Heat a lightly oiled grill or grill pan to medium high heat. Add the chicken and cook, turning once, until done (about 3-4 minutes per side).
5. Finish Rice: Fluff rice with a fork and fold in edamame, zest, scallions, cilantro and juice from remaining lime half. Salt and pepper taste.
6. To serve, serve chicken over rice and drizzle with reserved sauce. Garnish with reserved cilantro.
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Spicy Honey Lime Chicken and Edamame Rice
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Ingredients
- 5 oz jasmine rice
- 12 oz chicken tenders
- 1 lime
- 4.75 oz edamame
- 1 oz sliced scallions
- .4 oz cilantro
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- .35 oz minced ginger
- .3 oz minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons honey
- .3 oz sriracha
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, over high heat, bring 1 and 1/4 cups water and 1/4 teaspoon salt to a boil. Stir in rice and return to a boil. Stir in rice and return to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Turn off heat and let sit, covered for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
- Zest lime. Cut lime in half. Chop cilantro (reserve a pinch for garnish). Now let's make the sauce! While rice is cooking, start the sauce. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, ginger, garlic, honey srirach, juice from half the lime, a quarter of the zest, a quarter of the cilantro, 2 teaspoons canola oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. (Reserve 2 teaspoons of mixture)
- Coat chicken: Add the chicken to the bowl with the sauce. Turning to coat. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Cook Chicken: Heat a lightly oiled grill or grill pan to medium high heat. Add the chicken and cook, turning once, until done (about 3-4 minutes per side).
- Finish Rice: Fluff rice with a fork and fold in edamame, zest, scallions, cilantro and juice from remaining lime half. Salt and pepper taste.
- To serve, serve chicken over rice and drizzle with reserved sauce. Garnish with reserved cilantro.
Nutrition
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This came together so quickly and was easy to make. Could have used a little more flavor but that’s on me; we have allergies to both capsaicin (Sriracha) and cilantro in this house. Had I been thinking, I’d have upped the ginger and/or maybe stirred a touch of wasabi into the rice.