Free Healthy Recipe - Spicy stir fried Chicken with Sun Dried Tomatoes, Sweetcorn and Spinach

Dairy free, Low carbohydrate, Low fat, Low GI

This is a lovely sweet summer stir fry. The kids will enjoy this too, if you leave out the chilli. Treat the corn as the serve of carbohydrate and there's no need to dirty another pan to make noodles or high GI rice!

Ingredients
2 bunches English spinach, washed and trimmed
2 medium cobs corn
500 grams organic chicken breast, cut into thin strips
2 tsp ginger, grated
3 tbsp sun dried tomatoes, drained and finely chopped
2 tsp lemon zest, grated
1 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp coriander, finely chopped
Method

Bring a steamer to boil. Steam the corn for 4 minutes and remove from the heat, reserving the steamer to use later for the spinach. Remove the corn kernels for the stir fry and set aside.

Heat the wok until it is very hot and add the grapeseed oil. Heat until the oil is very hot but not smoking . Add the chicken and stir fry for 2 minutes until seared and slightly browned. Add the ginger and chilli and stir fry for a further 2 minutes.

Bring the steamer back to the boil and steam the spinach for 2 minutes.
Add the sun dried tomatoes. lemon zest, corn kernels and stir fry until the chicken is cooked though. Stir through the fish sauce and coriander and serve over the steamed spinach.

Note: Grape seed oil is extracted from grape seeds and is a good source of Vitamin E. It contains the same amount of energy ( Kj ) as olive oil and like olive oil helps to lower LDL cholesterol levels in the blood.

Makes 4 servings

Scale recipe to serves

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Ready in: 25 mins


Suitable for:
Dinner
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Nutritional Information - Per Serve
Kj 1475 kj
Calories 353 kcal
Fat 17.3 g
Saturated Fat 3.1 g
Total Carbohydrate 11.5 g
Total Protein 33.9 g
Fibre 7.5 g


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