Fast food at home

by Cyndi Turnpaugh

Typically in my home my children do the cooking. When someone can't cook for whatever reason, I'm the stand in. Recently, after a long day, it suddenly became my turn to cook. I wanted ...no needed... something fast and easy with little-to-no clean up. I ended up making a BBQ chicken dish, which took about 20 minutes from start to finish. Not including eating time! 

 
Let me show you how I make this meal... dare I say, a fast food meal?!?! 

First, I had leftover chicken to use. Second, my family will eat most anything if it contains pineapple so I threw this easy dish together and we had a winner!!

BBQ Chicken and Rice

2 tbs walnut oil
1 lb cooked, cubed, chicken (I always use leftover)
1 bottle BBQ sauce (preferably organic, even better... make your own)
1 can pineapple with juice
1 green pepper, diced
1 red pepper, diced
1 onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups cooked white rice (I like the Lundberg Basmati)

Dice all your veggies. Rest the side of a large knife on your garlic cloves and bring your hand down fast and hard to bust it open. Remove the skin from your now minced cloves.

As you heat up the oil in a large skillet over medium heat clean up the cutting board, knives and anything you are finished with.

Add onion to your skillet and cook until desired done-ness while you get plates and forks out. Add the remaining ingredients, stir and cook until heated through. It took about 10 minutes to get it good and hot.

When it is heated, divide the food onto plates then wash the skillet as you call for everyone to "come and get it!" 

By the time we finished eating, the skillet was dry, ready to be put away and there were only plates and forks to wash. In our house, we all wash our own plates and silverware. I am a firm believer in not doing for my children what they can do for themselves. It instills confidence and a sense of being capable. 

...Cyndi said... this was the best kind of fast food meal!