This week on Fit to Eat, Chef Rob makes a healthy version of Pad Thai Chicken with special guest Terry Sullivan from Live Right Now. We attend the Mississippi Peanut festival at Mitchell Farms on our Down on the Farm segment. Registered Dietitian, Rebecca Turner makes a gluten-free salad. 

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Recipes

CHICKEN PAD THAI

Ingredients:

• ¼ tspn of sesame oil
• 5 OZ thin fresh chicken white meat only slice thinly
• 1/3 cup rice noodles soaked in water till tender
• ¼ cup mung bean sprouts fresh
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• ¼ cup vegetable stock salt free
• 1 tbspn julienne red bell pepper
• 1 tbspn fresh cilantro chopped finely
• 1 lime squeezed and added to sauce
• 1 tbspn of zero sodium product
• 1 tspn low salt soy
• ½ tspn black pepper
• 1 tbspn of fresh local peanuts
• 1/8 tspn crushed red pepper
• 2 oz thinly sliced tofu (3 slices)
• ½ tspn garlic powder
• ½ tspn onion powder
• 1 tspn black pepper
• ½ tspn Asian 5 spice

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHICKEN PAD THAI

Heat 1 quart water and cook rice noodles for 4-5 minutes till tender and translucent.  Mix last four spices in a small bowl and sprinkle over tofu slices on both sides.  Place  sesame oil in hot pan.  Sear tofu for 1-2 minutes per side till lightly browned.  Remove tofu from pan and add chicken strips, garlic, pepper and sear till brown.  Deglaze with soy, and vegetable stock.  Add cilantro, sprouts and rice noodles and remove from heat.  Toss till mixed evenly.  Hold for service.  Place on plate in the middle.  Place tofu around edge of plate.

In same saute pan spray with zero fat spray and add tofu.  Lighly brown tofu on both sides and hold till plating is ready.

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPICY PEPPER YOGURT SAUCE

Ingredients:

• ½ tspn srirachi sauce
• 2 tbspn Greek non-fat yogurt
• ¼ tspn onion powder
• ½ tspn fresh minced garlic finely chopped
• ¼ tspn finely chopped cilantro

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOGURT SAUCE

Mix all ingredients together well.  Chill and serve with entrée. 

PLATING ENTRÉE:

Place pad thai in center of plate.  Fan the tofu around the pad thai in the center of the place leaving room for the yogurt on the side in a ramekin.  Enjoy!!  One of my personal favorites!!!