General's Chicken

I'm such a procrastinator--I made my last recipe on 1-25 and still haven't typed it up...I've been watching the minutes tick by on Pinterest and then I realized I need to post!

So here I am, trying not to think about the test that I have at 4:30 and feeling confident that I have studied (almost) enough.  I hope. 

Anyway, last week Nick and I were craving something different and we settled on Chinese!  His favorite is General Tso's Chicken, so I looked up some recipes for the crockpot.  What I learned, after the meal was made, was that General Tso's is not a good chicken for the crockpot, it was more of a stir-fry chicken than anything else.  We actually made real General Tso's yesterday.  The main thing this recipe was missing was the fried aspect.  The crockpot version was still yummy, just not what we were hoping for.

What you need:

1.5 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast
2 Tbl. lite soy sauce
3 Tbl. brown sugar
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes

16 oz package frozen stir fry veggies

What you do:

Cut the chicken into 1 inch pieces and place in bottom of crockpot.

In a bowl mix soy sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, and pepper flakes.

Pour over chicken, stir to coat.

I cooked mine on high for 3 hours but you can do low 5-6.  After 3 (or 5 on low) hours add veggies and cook another half hour, or until veggies are thawed and warm.

Serve over rice :)

If I were to make this again I would probably do a second batch of sauce to add in with the veggies, we ended up using a lot of soy sauce on the final product because there wasn't much left in the pot.

Here's a pic:

Tomorrow we're actually tackling an original recipe of Nick's...he has a knack for creating interesting food combos.  More to come soon!