I do love an authentic sweet and sour anything, made from scratch. This is that recipe. SO delicious. And no nasties. Start your year off right!
We are doing a few low calorie recipes for the New Year. I am not a big supporter of low calorie eating, as you will probably know as I don't think it really does much for anyone. If you focus on calories rather than growing taller, I think you will have a shorter more depressing life! I feel as though the best way to be fit and healthy is to exercise and to make as much of your food as you can from scratch, with ingredients you recognise as being actual food. No numbers, no nasties, no additives. So this one is extremely delicious, better than any takeout (#fakeaway) and completely doable with ease on a hot night! Enjoy counting the calories, it won't take you long, cos there aren't many!
Need
- 1 Fresh pineapple, peeled and cored and sliced
- 200 Grams Fresh Rice Noodles or packaged, cooked as per packet instructions. Recipe
- 1 brown onion peeled and halved
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 red chilli
- 40 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 30 Grams apple cider vinegar
- 50 Grams tomato paste
- 30 Grams soy sauce
- 300 Grams Pineapple juice
- 1 Tablespoon cornflour or cornstarch
- 2 Chicken breasts, diced
- 1 capsicum/bell pepper red, de-seeded and cut into cubes
- 1 capsicum/bell pepper green, de-seeded and cut into cubes
- 250 Grams Snow peas
Do
- 1
Heat a griddle pan and drizzle with EVOO. Cook the pineapple in batches until it's all nicely charred. Set aside.
- 2
Cook the rice noodles as per packet instructions. Set aside to cool.
- 3
To make the sauce, place onion, garlic, chilli and EVOO into the Thermomix bowl and chop 5 sec/speed 6 Cook for 5 min/Varoma/speed 1 Remove from bowl and set aside.
- 4
Place apple cider vinegar, tomato paste, soy sauce, pineapple juice and cornflour into the Thermomix bowl and combine 5 sec/speed 6 Add the onion mix and capsicums into the bowl. Cook 6 min/100°C/Reverse/speed 1.
- 5
Cut up the chicken into cubes and fry in a hot pan with EVOO until browned and cooked through.
- 6
To assemble, place rice noodles on a plate, top with snow peas, grilled pineapple and chicken. Pour sauce over the top.
Served with
Bree is a mum who has always loved cooking and baking and became a big Tenina fan when she got her first Thermomix. She was on the very first foodie trip as a customer and hasn't looked back, working for Tenina for over 5 years as a recipe tester and developer, branching out into video master for all of Tenina's lives! She still runs her baking business, creating amazing cakes and macarons for her customer list.
