Glazed Chicken over Rice with Fresh Green Bean Salad
Combine this easy glazed chicken and instant rice recipe with a tangy fresh green bean salad.
How many servings?From kitchen to table in 40 minutes.
fresh green beans
carrot
red bell pepper
red onion
olive oil
orange juice
sugar
pepper
olive oil
boneless skinless chicken breast
orange marmalade
lemon juice
cornstarch
water
instant rice
green onion
slivered almonds
Directions
- Trim beans and place in a saucepan. Cover with water and boil on high for 4 minutes. (Begin timing when the water starts bubbling.)
- While beans cook, julienne carrot. Add carrot to beans and cook for an additional minute.
- Drain and rinse with cool water.
- Mix olive oil, orange juice and sugar together in a bowl.
- Julienne bell pepper and onion and place in the bowl. Add beans and carrot.
- Mix well and sprinkle with pepper. Place in refrigerator.
- Place olive oil in a skillet and cook chicken over medium heat until brown on both sides.
- In a saucepan, heat water on high until boiling. Add instant rice, reduce heat to low and cover. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes until all the water has been absorbed.
- Stir together cornstarch, broth, marmalade and lemon juice.
- Remove chicken from skillet. Stir marmalade mixture into skillet, turn heat up to medium-high and cook sauce until thick and bubbly stirring constantly.
- Return chicken to skillet, reduce heat to low and cover.
- Slice green onion.
- Place chicken on a bed of rice and spoon sauce over the top. Garnish with green onion and almonds. Serve green bean salad on the side.