Sriracha Mango Chicken Sauté

 An awesome customer of ours was kind enough to share her recent creation using our Sriracha Mango White Balsamic Vinegar. She even sent a tasty looking picture!

If you are looking to recreate this, here is Deborah’s guide:

ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts
• equal parts: sweet potato, red bell pepper, onion, fresh mango - ½ inch dice
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder (or to taste)
• 2 teaspoons ginger powder (or to taste) 
• half bottle (3 ounces) Pastamore Sriracha Mango White Balsamic
• corn starch to thicken
• salt & pepper to taste

Pat chicken dry, and salt & pepper both sides of the breasts. Brown and cook in a sauté pan with some olive oil 3 to 4 minutes per side until cooked through and set aside. Coat fruit/veg dice with the garlic and ginger powder and sauté using the same pan.  Deborah added about a ½ cup + of water with some corn starch while simmering.  Cook for about 8 minutes at medium heat. Add Sriracha Mango White Balsamic. Dice the chicken and add back to the pan. Heat through.

Serve over brown rice, if desired.

Hexclad pan optional (but I want one!)

Thank you for sharing, Deborah Johnson!

An Easy Summer Cucumber & Tomato Salad

Summer cooking fits this free-form and easy salad which goes well with any main dish. In cooking, we think of ‘free-form’ as something where measuring is not essential, and the ingredients can be varied. In this case, we had a leftover red onion half, some basil leaves and fresh mozzarella (a rare event in Nan’s Test Kitchen), so it became an easy, healthy and tasty salad!

We have also made a version of this salad with our Passion Fruit White Balsamic Vinegar. The Passion Fruit marries well with both tomatoes and basil and gives a tropical summer flair.

Again, this is one of those recipes where more or less is fine - feel free to increase, decrease or change the quantities depending on your taste and what you have on hand.

ingredients

• 1 cucumber, quartered lengthwise and sliced thin
• 1 ½ cups cherry tomatoes, halved
• 8 ounces fresh mozzarella, ½ inch cube
• ½ cup red onion, thin slices
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 5 to 10 basil leaves, chiffonade
• Pastamore Basil Parmesan Olive Oil, to taste (about 2 tbs)
• Pastamore Barrel-Aged Balsamic Vinegar, to taste (about 2 tbs)
  
  

Prepare and combine first four ingredients in a large salad bowl. Sprinkle with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add the slivered basil and mix to combine. Drizzle with the basil Parmesan oil and combine. Finally, drizzle the balsamic vinegar, and combine once more. Allow to stand in the fridge for an hour before serving for the flavors to meld.

Serves 4 as a side salad.