Chicken and Broccoli

Taste: Pretty good.

Cleanup: A pain, lots of things get messed up.

Ingredients: All available at Publix

Original recipe at: Chinese Chicken and Broccoli

This needs a lot of prep - many things to chop, the biggest pain being the chicken.

It doesn't involve the instant pot a lot, mostly the cast iron pan (instead of a wok), but cooking the broccoli in a steamer for zero minutes (come up to pressure, then shut off) made it perfect. I rinsed it in cool water to stop it from continuing to cook.

I also used the instant pot to make brown rice (one cup), which I mixed in with the chicken and broccoli at the end.

For everything else I followed the instructions and used the cast iron pan for the stir fry. I did look up that 6 tablespoons of honey weighs 126 grams, so I could just keep the honey bottle on the kitchen scale and squirt some in the pan every so often till the scale went to -126 grams.

I made one big mistake, I forgot how much water was in the bowl where I stashed the broccoli, so I thinned the sauce too much when I dumped the bowl of broccoli in instead of picking up individual handfuls and shaking them out first.

Scooping out the food and boiling down the sauce some helped (but it would have helped more if I had thought to dump the rice in the pan to soak up as much sauce as possible, which didn't occur to me till later).

Anyway, the taste was terrific, definitely emulated the chicken and broccoli you get at Chinese take out places. Possibly even cheaper if you don't count the labor.

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