High Protein, Spicy, Szechuan Chicken Recipe
In my last cooking blog I made one of my favorite breakfast meal prep dishes. For this recipe, I’m going over another genre of food that I can’t get enough, spicy food. This is a simple, cheap, high protein dish that will leave your taste buds sizzling! Let’s break down how I make Szechuan chicken.
Ingredients: This will make enough for 5 meals.
2 lbs. of chicken tenderloins
2 green bell peppers
2 yellow onions
5 cups of Jasmine Rice
1 bunch of green onions
8 - 10 cloves of garlic
Szechuan sauce
Sesame seed oil
Butter
Corn Starch
Seasoning: Salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, sesame seeds, onion powder, and garlic powder
Instructions: Total Time to Cook - 30 minutes
First, you’ll need to prep your chicken. Cut into small cubes and place in a bowl.
Create a marinade for the chicken by adding half a cup of Szechuan sauce (I personally use House of Tsang), 3 tbsp. Of corn starch, pepper, red pepper flakes, and garlic powder to your liking. Mix ingredients together so that the chicken is evenly covered and let marinade for at least 10 minutes.
Before you prep your veggies, go ahead and follow your rice’s instructions for volume of water. Most rice takes about 15 - 20 minutes to cook, so if your water is boiling around the time you begin cooking your chicken, you’re making good time.
While the chicken is marinading, you’ll want to prep your veggies. Cut your bell peppers and yellow onions into thin, long slice, julienne your green onions, and dice your garlic. You can sub fresh garlic for garlic in a jar if you wish. Once chopped, place your bell peppers and yellow onion in one bowl, and your green onions, and garlic separately in their own containers.
Set your pan on medium high heat with sesame oil and place chicken inside. Cook for about 4 - 6 minutes or until outside gets golden brown. Remove the chicken and let rest in a separate dish.
In the same pan you cooked the chicken in, add a little more sesame oil then the minced garlic, red pepper flakes and green onions and sautée for about 1 - 2 minutes. Once done, place these ingredients with the chicken.
Now add sliced veggies into the pan and season with salt and pepper. Sautée for about 3 - 4 minutes or until lightly charred.
Finally, reintroduce your chicken and green onion mixture to the veggies, stir for 1 minute, and garnish with sesame seeds.
Add 2.5 tbsp. of butter, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and garlic powder to your jasmine rice and you’re all set!
Nutritional Content
34 g. of protein may seem low for chicken based meal, but consider that the dish is only 555 calories! This is a great option for cutting or maintenance calories in which you get a great deal of protein, vegetables, and carbohydrates.
I hope ya’ll consider adding this awesome recipe to your meal prep rotation! Check out the video summary below to see all the steps I outlined above.