Reruns of Recipes

I love boneless chicken. Easy to cook. I also buy boneless chicken mainly for the kids' homemade nuggets, but last weekend I cooked for myself too.

Made some easy stir fry, adapted from Orange Soy Sauce Chicken. Didn't use soy sauce but used oyster sauce.

Orange Juice Chicken Stir Fry

700g boneless chicken cubes
4 cloves garlic
Juice from 3 oranges
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp honey
1 cili padi, 2 red chilis
Handful of roasted peanuts

Smash the garlic and chop finely. Slice the chilis. Fry the chili in oil, then add in garlic. Add the chicken and fry for a few minutes. Add in the orange juice, oyster sauce and honey. Cook until sauce thickens. I removed the cili padi right after cooking.

Husband approves this! Though only for 1 meal, no reheating. Haha. I'm amazed he wanted to give this a try, and even more amazed that he likes it!

Also made roti kirai and chicken curry (boneless chicken to the rescue again!) the day after because the kids had a taste of it at the carnival and wanted more. Made one batch of roti kirai, and a small batch of chicken curry (reduced the amount of onions) to accompany the roti kirai. SUPER tired but at least the kids love it and said thank you mummy, so yummy! Honestly though I had some sort of exhaustion? Possibly the lungs or heart. Took quite a while to recover from that.

Later that evening in between some ironing like as if I wasn't tired enough I made a batch of banana cupcakes (baby girl calls it muffins since it doesn't have frosting). This is honestly the best recipe for banana cake. Today superstar returns home!

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