Cooking up Dinner: Orange Chicken with Carrots

Well, no picture for this dinner, but what we had was:

Black beans

Rice

Orange Chicken with carrots

Quick recipes I made:

Black Beans

1ish Cup Black Beans, soaked over night

1 Onion

2 cups vegetable broth

2 cups water

1 tablespoon grapeseed oil

1) Saute onion in oil until a little brown.

2) drop in beans and then broth and water.

3) bring to a boil.

4) Cover and lower heat to meduim. Cook until beans are tender.

Rice

2 cups rice

1 onion

1 tablespoon Grapeseed oil

Water

1) Saute onion in oil until a little brown.

2) Drop in rice and saute until the rice turns a little clear.

3) Dump into a rice cooker, and add enough water as per the manual.

4) cook.

Orange Chicken with Carrots

1 Split Chicken Breast

1 Orange, juice and zest

1/2 cup water

3 cloves garlic, mashed

1 Tablespoon grapeseed oil

1 onion

5 large carrots

1) Preheat over to 375.

2) Saute onions and garlic in oil in a large dutch oven.

3) Put in chicken skin side down and brown it a little.

4) Add carrots and saute a little.

5) Add orange juice and water.

6)Cover with a tight fitting lid and put into oven.

7) Cook until chicken is done, about 30 minutes.

Cooking up Dinner