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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Amazing Bourbon Chicken




Ingredients:
Medium Size Bottle of Bourbon
Chicken breast
3-4 diced garlic cloves
2 Tbsp freshly grated ginger
2 Tbsp mild red pepper flake
2 Red Bell Peppers
2 hand fulls of diced shiitake mushrooms
1/2 sweet onion diced
Broccoli or other veggies
Jasmine Rice
Huy Fong Sriracha sauce
Pure Cane Sugar
EVOO

Step 1:
Cut chicken into small thin pieces. Place in hot olive oil with garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes and saute on high heat for about 3 minutes. Add the bell pepper, onion, and mushroom, saute on high heat for another 3 minutes. Add about 3 cups of bourbon, reduce to medium high heat. Light the bourbon on fire with an extended lighter. Do not be afraid there will be flames just make sure there is nothing around the stove. After the flames die out reduce the liquid until it starts to turn a darker brown color about 10-15 minutes after flames die. Add enough sugar to get rid of any bitter taste from the bourbon. You will be left with about 2 inches of liquid at this point. Take off the stove and let cool.

Step 2:
Place the rest of the bourbon in a sauce pan, grate some ginger into the liquid, set to boil, add the hot sauce to taste and again light the bourbon. Wait till the flames die, add sugar to taste, a tad bit of corn starch, reduce until thickened, set to the side.

Step 3:
Make sure to cook your rice while you are doing the above steps. Get a rice cooker if you do not already have one with a steamer basket. This will make life much easier when cooking. Place the rice in cooker, set whatever veggies you want in the steamer basket, cover with lid, and now you have rice and steamed veggies. This also helps to retain essential vitamins and minerals that may drop down into the rice as the veggies steam.

Step 4:
Plate up, poor the extra bourbon sauce over the chicken and rice.

Enjoy!

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