Paleo Orange Chicken with green beans, mushshrooms, and cashews

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast (cut into bite size pieces)
• 3 T fat (coconut oil works well here)
• juice of 2 oranges*
• zest from 1 orange
• 1 t fresh ginger
• 3 T coconut aminos or wheat-free soy sauce
• 1 t chili garlic sauce or sriracha
• 3 green onions, chopped
• 1 package of baby bella mushrooms
• 1 lb of fresh green beans
• sesame oil
• sesame seeds
• raw or lightly salted cashews
• chopped garlic
• red pepper flake

METHOD

In a medium size sauce pot, add the orange juice, zest, ginger, coconut aminos and chili garlic sauce or sriracha. Set over medium heat and let simmer to reduce and thicken while the chicken cooks.

In a saute pan, heat 3 T of the fat of your choice, over medium high heat. Add the chopped chicken breast and cook until a nice brown crust has developed on the chicken pieces, about 6 minutes.

While the sauce is simmering and the chicken is cooking, sautee green beans, chopped garlic to taste, and sesame seeds in sesame oil with a few dashes of red pepper flake. When the beans start to soften a bit, toss in sliced baby bella mushsrooms. Add cashews to taste when mushrooms start to brown.

Add the chicken to the sauce pot and stir to coat with the orange sauce.

Serve topped with sliced green onions.

*Taste your oranges. If they don’t taste orange-y, then neither will this dish. Use tangerines if you gotta or add a teaspoon of sweetener until you’re satisfied with the flavor.

Base recipe taken from www.health-bent.com