Yummy supper!

I was very badly craving some pad thai from Pei Wei tonight, but couldn't justify going out to get it because I've been feeling pretty run down today and decided to take a rest day from working out. I searched around on the Internet for some type of noodle dish and then took a few ingredients from one of the recipes and made a super yummy spicy peanut sauce chicken and veggie noodle stir fry. I didn't really measure anything out...just kinda combined ingredients until it tasted good.

Noodles
Boil water and then add noodles. (I used whole wheat linguine.) When they're at the appropriate level of doneness, drain and set aside.


Peanut Sauce
In a small sauce pan over low heat, add a little bit of water and a spoonful of crunchy, natural peanut butter and a dollop of honey. Add some reduced sodium soy sauce, olive oil, garlic powder, ground ginger, lemon (or lime) juice, red pepper flakes (I like heat, so I used a lot of these!), black pepper and stir. Once it heats up, give it a little taste and adjust ingredients as necessary.

Chicken and Veggies
While the sauce is heating up, saute a boneless chicken breast in a bit of olive oil until it's cooked through. Set aside and chop up into bite-size pieces. In the same pan, saute a lot of vegetables (I used Harris Teeter frozen Chinese StirFry vegetables and some mushrooms). Once the veggies are pretty much done, add the sauce, chicken, and noodles and stir and heat everything up.

The whole meal took about 30 minutes to prepare and it's easy to clean nearly everything while it's mixing together at the end.

It was so yummy and not too bad for you if you go easy on the olive oil and peanut butter. The perfect combo of spicy and sweet!