Let me tell you about it!
First is the chicken. I found a recipe online to make batter for fried Chinese chicken (you know, like you buy at Safeway with sweet and sour sauce). So we boiled the chicken to cook it, then coated it in our homemade batter, and fried it in one of my fondue pots.
We then poured a warm "duck sauce" on it.
Explanation: we found a little whole-in-the-wall Asian foods grocery store on Saturday, and found this huge jar of sauce called "duck sauce". And, it was only like $4! It's made with peaches and/or apricots (seriously, that's what the ingredients label said!) and was labelled as a sweet and sour sauce good for pork or chicken. I have no idea why it was called duck sauce!!
Anyway, so we warmed up the duck sauce and poured it over the chicken.
Next is the white rice. We also found at the Asian grocery store some palm sugar. We had never had or heard of palm sugar, so we bought some. Then we looked up online what recipes it is good in. One suggestion was sweet sticky rice. So we cooked up some of our white rice and stirred in some palm sugar when it was done, and it was seriously sooooo good!!
Third was just some stir fry vegetables. We just scrounged in our fridge and came up with sweet mini peppers, sweet onion, sugar snap peas, and baby carrots. Delish!!
Finally was the fresh chow mein. We bought it frozen at the Asian grocery store and we really weren't sure how to cook it. So we sort of stir fry/steamed it and it turned out yummy, especially with a little of the duck sauce on it. It was uncooked when we bought it, so we weren't just re-heating it, we were actually cooking it.
Anyway, it was one of the best Asian food dinners we've had, even compared to going out to eat. I guess if we had put in some MSG it would have been a little more authentic, but, hey... you can't have it all, right? :)
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