{"id":532,"date":"2008-01-18T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=532"},"modified":"2008-01-18T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T04:27:48","slug":"What's Cooking... Sesame Chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Cooking&#8230; Sesame Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Sesame Chicken <\/span><\/font><br \/><em>6 servings<br \/>21 min total, 5 min prep<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 boneless skinless chicken breasts<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup honey<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup water<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon cornstarch<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon ground ginger<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cut chicken breast into 1 inch strips. Heat a large non-stick skillet that has been sprayed with Pam, over medium-high heat. Cook chicken strips for about 6 minutes until no longer pink.<br \/>Mix together honey, soy sauce, water, corn starch, ginger and red pepper flakes. Whisk until no corn starch lumps appear.<br \/>Pour sauce mixture into skillet with chicken. Cook until sauce thickens slightly. (You can add more water if sauce is too thick.) Sprinkle with sesame seeds.<br \/>Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until chicken starts to soak up the sauce.<\/p>\n<p>*I served this with brown rice, steamed veggies and, in a last minute addition for Brian, a box of Toasted Sesame Rice Noodles from Thai Kitchen. Delicous!<br \/>*I only used 3 large chicken breasts, marked as 1.8lbs. It was plenty, and if there had been more chicken, I would have probably wanted the sauce doubled. <br \/>*Be careful toasting sesame seeds. I&#8217;ve burned more batches in my toaster oven than I care to count (the smell of even a small batch permeates the whole house, and it stays around for a while). This time I put them in my tiny skillet, tossed them over medium heat, and it only took a couple minutes until they were just right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sesame Chicken 6 servings21 min total, 5 min prep 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts 1\/4 cup honey 1\/4 cup soy sauce 1\/2 cup water 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional) 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds Cut chicken breast into 1 inch strips. Heat a large non-stick skillet that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}