Oriental Chicken & Ham

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 boneless chicken breasts, cubed
• 3/4 lb spaghetti or 3/4 lb thin noodles
• 1 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 teaspoon chinese five spice powder
• 8 tablespoons soy sauce
• 8 tablespoons wine or 8 tablespoons sherry wine
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 medium onion, sliced thin
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 carrots, grated or quartered
• 1 cup peas
• 4 slices ham, sliced or cubed
• 5 teaspoons olive oil
• 1/2 cup cashews (optional)

Recipe

• 1 bring water to boil for noodles, cook until tender, drain& toss with a little olive oil and set aside.
• 2 in small skillet over low heat, slightly brown cahsews- watch carefully; remove from heat.
• 3 while noodles are cooking, mix curry, 5 spice, soy, wine (or sherry) and honey.
• 4 in seperate bowl, combine garlic and carrots (peas only if frozen).
• 5 heat 2 tbsp.
• 6 oil in large skillet on high until it just smokes- about 1 1/2 mins.
• 7 add onion and stir fry for 2 mins.
• 8 add garlic and carrot (peas only if frozen) and cook 1 min.
• 9 put veggies in a bowl and set aside.
• 10 wipe out pan and return to heat.
• 11 add remaining oil, then chicken and stir fry until opaque.
• 12 add the ham and cook 1 min more.
• 13 add veggies and noodles to the pan and toss gently.
• 14 add peas if not frozen and cashews.
• 15 pour sauce mixture over and toss again, turn off heat.