The Great Chinese Improvisation - spicy and crispy chicken skewers

Now, I am no specialist, don't know much about cooking Chinese dishes. But once you get that craving (and don't have spare £15), there's not much you can do, but improvise.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you:

                    

SESAME SEED COATED SPICY CHICKEN SKEWERS 

WITH EGG FRIED RICE AND STIR FRIED GREEN BEANS 

AND ASPARAGUS IN SOY SAUCE (SERVES 4)

Warning: this is not a professional recipe, but my own interpretation (heavily improvised). Still pretty damn tasty though...

Chop 4 skinless and boneless chicken breasts into bite-sized chunks. Prepare a marinade using a thumb-sized piece of ginger (peeled and finely chopped), 3 gloves of garlic (again peeled and finely chopped), 2 spring onions, 2 teaspoons of sesame seed oil, a splash of soy sauce. Cover your chicken with the marinade and leave for at least 45min.

Stick the marinated chicken breast pieces onto the skewers, put on a flat(ish) roasting pan, cover generously with sesame seeds and chuck it into the oven. Roast for around 30min, or until sesame seeds start getting golden.

In the meantime, boil the brown rice (or even better, use leftover rice as it fries better and gets less sticky) and cool it. Fry with spring onions and peas on 1 tablespoon of sesame seed oil, beat an egg and pour into the rice. Stir quickly until egg is firm and rice dry. Season to taste.

Parboil your green beans and asparagus, rinse and transfer to a large, flat pan. Stir fry briefly with a dash of soy sauce.

Serve everything hot.

                               

This little beauty is full of nutrients. Apart from the obvious load of protein in the chicken breast and egg, fibre in brown rice, you will find that sesame seeds are a great source of copper and calcium, green beans prevent heart disease and regulate diabetes and asparagus is packed with antioxidants and vitamins. 

Do be careful with the amount of soy sauce though, as it has got a high salt content.

ENJOY!