Chinese 5 Spice Chicken

Sorry, already probably breaking the rules by changing my dish at the last minute. Yesterday Emmie and I sampled this really yummy sauce from Trader Joes and for 1.99 I had to buy it. Today I felt like cooking with it so instead of "smoky grilled chicken" I made "chinese 5 spice chicken." The new meal does not really go with corn bread however I made it anyway. Sunday mornings are usually hectic trying to get out the door for church so corn bread with butter and honey with some fruit makes a great quick breakfast.

Recipe
3 or 4 chicken breasts
one bag of spinach ( I buy the gigantic one at Costco and then we use it for a week or longer.)
2 1/2 cups of white rice
one bottle of 5 Spice Chinese Chef Sauce from Trader Joes
one box of Corn Bread mix from Trader Joes (Marie Callendars also makes a good one.)

I bought bone in chicken with skin because it was only .99 a pound. It only took me a few minutes to cut the bone out and take the skin off. Put chicken breasts in large ziploc bag and pour 3/4 of bottle of Chinese Sauce in it. Spread around so sauce covers all of chicken. Marinate in fridge for at least 4 hours.




Follow instructions for corn bread on box. Takes about 30 mins. to bake in oven. Make rice. I use a rice cooker which takes about 20 minutes. You could also cook rice on stove but I don't really know how. While rice and bread is cooking start grilling your chicken. Our grill outside is not working right now so I used my George Foreman grill. It's super easy and drains off the fat. It has a timer on it so it would be hard to over cook and turns out juicy and tender. Only disadvantage is kind of a pain to clean. While chicken is grilling boil 2 cups of water for spinach. I steam the spinach by putting it into a colander and placing it over the boiling water. It only takes 2 or 3 minutes to cook, you don't want the spinach too wilted or it could taste bitter. I season the spinach with salt and pepper. You could also add butter if you like. Once everything is done plate it up. I heated up the remainder of the sauce to pour over rice. VOILA

The picture looks kind of sloppy but it was really good. Both of my kids including my picky son loved it (except for the spinach.) Rod liked the rice and spinach but thought the chicken was ok. The guy just does not like chicken unless it comes from a fast food place with cows all over it by Kara's house.

Rootbeer Floats
Recipe
1 can of Hansens rootbeer- We buy this at Trader Joes as well. They have the best price at 1.99 for a six pack
3 scoops of Dreyers vanilla ice cream
Combine two items and enjoy!!