Dining on a $ With Chicken Breasts Recipe #380648
The challenge was to come up with a meal using ramen noodles and a few other ingredients from a select list. This is a savory dinner or lunch that can be made in a short amount of time but gives a BIG amount of flavor. I hope you enjoy it as much as my family and friends did.
33 min | 8 min prep
SERVES 3
- 1 ramen noodles, packet (minus seasoning packet)
- 1/2 lb chicken breast, sliced into strips
- 1/4 lb carrot, julienned
- 1/2 onion, sliced into strips (large white)
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1/2 red pepper, julienned
- 1/2 green pepper, julienned
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2-3 tablespoons butter (not margarine)
- 1 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning (can use more to tastes)
- 2 tablespoons garlic mincemeat (can use more to tastes)
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 2 cups water
- In large skillet, melt olive oil and 2 tbsp butter on medium low heat.
- Add in all ingredients except chicken, carrots, and noodles and sauté til el dente, scoop out into serving dish. ( Do NOT wash out skillet yet).
- In same skillet add in additional tbsp of butter and more olive oil if needed, add chicken and cook on medium til all pink is gone. Approx 4 min depending on thickness of chicken strips.
- In a separate pan at the same time bring 2 c water to a rolling boil. Turn down heat and Add in carrots and cook for 2 min then add in noodles and cook an additional 1-2 minute.
- Drain any remaining liquid and toss into skillet., stir.
- Then take vegetable mixture from serving dish and incorporate back into skillet to reheat on med low heat. Sprinkle on Parmesan cheese and incorporate through.
- Return all to serving platter and voila.
- Serve with crusty bread.
- Options:.
- other vegetables can be substituted or interchanged for variety such as brocolli, spinach, chard, zuchinii disks, etc.
- You can keep noodles separate and serve the chicken veggie mixture over top of the noodles as opposed to mixed inches.
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