More new food! #4

Well it seems like we are doing more and more new foods. Today we tired something new, and it was really new to me. I have never used fresh herbs or fresh ginger. It was cool to try (thank you PW for allowing me to read your food section and know how to do some of this stuff)

Today's new food was :

Basil-ginger Chicken Noodles

prep 20 mins
cook 20 mins
serves 4-6 people

12 oz - wide egg noodles (about 6 cups)
2-3 skinless boneless chicken breasts
2 cloves of garlic - minced
1 small sweet onion
1/4 lb of snow peas
2-in piece of fresh ginger (peeled)
2 TBSP of soy sauce
1 to 2 tsp of chili-garlic sauce
2 tsp of liquid honey
2 TBSP of vegetable oil
1 TBSP of dark sesame oil
1/2 cup of shredded basil
1/2 cup of chopped peanuts.

1 - add noodles to large sauce pan of boiling salted water, cook uncovered until al dente 12 minutes or so.
2 - Meanwhile, slice chicken into stir-fry-size strips. Toss with garlic. Thinly slice onion. Leave snow peas whole, cut large ones in half if needed. Grate ginger on medium side of grater. Measure out 2 tsp. Set aside. Stir soy sauce with chili-garlic sauce and honey.
3 - Heat oils in a large frying pan set over medium - high heat and add chicken mixture. Stir often until pale golden, about 5 minutes. Stir in ginger, and onion. Continue stirring often until onion is soften (about 5 minutes). Stir in soy mixture then snow peas. Then toss with drained noodles and basil. Sprinkle with peanuts.

This comes with other things to do/use. Some examples are instead of wide egg noodles to use rice stick noodles, or instead of chicken use pork tenderloin.

I chose to go with the foods above. I also made one pan with no chicken (for a new veggie in our group) and then our normal one. It turned out REALLY well. I enjoyed the smell it had once everything was mixed in together. It was incredible.

Here's a photo, enjoy: