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Recipe: Garlic Parmesan Shredded Chicken with Shiitake and Mukimame

What to do with leftover rotisserie chicken? I needed something quick and easy to fix, while utilizing a package of shiitake mushrooms that were languishing in my fridge. Good thing I still had a bag of frozen mukimame ready to go. And I really was looking forward to using the garlic parmesan olive oil I picked up at Scarborough Faire.

  • 16oz frozen mukimame
  • 12oz roasted or rotisserie chicken, meat and skin, shredded
  • 11.5 oz sliced​ shiitake mushrooms
  • 3oz raw garlic, chopped, minced
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • .25 tsp sea salt
  • 1oz extra virgin olive oil
  • 1oz Garlic Festival Garlic and Parmesan infused olive oil

Over medium heat sauté the raw garlic in extra virgin olive oil until fragrant. Add the shiitake mushrooms and season with salt. Toss until mushrooms have softened. Empty bag of frozen mukimame into pan and stir the mixture until heated through. Finally, add the shredded chicken, then drizzle with garlic parmesan olive oil.

To serve, sprinkle parmesan shavings over a four ounce portion. Feel free to drizzle on more garlic parmesan olive oil. For a little heat, add a dash of red pepper.

Nutrition calculator:
Calories 97 (per 2oz serving)
Total Fat 5.9 g
Total Carbohydrate 5.9g
Dietary Fiber 1.9 g
Sugars 1.1g
Protein 6.5 g

Recipe: Creamy Apple Cider Vinaigrette

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a recipe, and I have a backlog of them to post. Last week, I needed to do something with some overripe apples that have been sitting in the fridge for a long while (DH’s forgotten snack pile). I really liked the apple cider vinaigrette I’ve tried at Saladworks (paired with my fave Farmhouse salad), so I decided to make my own homemade dressing. Were I to retry this recipe in the future, I would probably omit the cinnamon and increase the ground ginger to give the dressing more bite.

20160411_Apple Cider Vinaigrette

Ingredients (adapted from the Stem Blog):

  • 4oz apple (I peeled and cored a Braeburn apple)
  • 1.5oz extra virgin olive oil
  • 2oz apple cider vinegar
  • 2tsp Trader Joe’s 100% natural stevia extract
  • 1tsp onion powder
  • .25tsp sea salt
  • .25 tsp ground ginger
  • .25tsp ground cinnamon

Toss all ingredients into a blender and process until creamy smooth. Yields 6.5oz or 12.5 servings of .5oz each.