Cooking with Alex’s Kitchen Story
Hi Saucettes! I’m Alexandra and I run Alex’s Kitchen Story.
I have been so excited to create this recipe for you guys! Sauce challenged me to make something extra saucy so I thought I’d come up with the below recipe, Sauce’s Ultimate Green Sauce, which you can honestly use on anything. It’s filled with veggies, has half a broccoli head, capsicum, spinach, spring onions, herbs and loads more, including delicious almond butter.
It would go well with any meat or tofu, as a salad dressing, or on noodles or rice. On this occasion, I have put it with some honey soy chicken and soba noodles.
Ideally you would marinate the chicken while you make the sauce, but for the purpose of writing this recipe out, I have put the sauce recipe first. However, the longer you can marinate chicken, the better of course.
I really hope you all enjoy this, I have to say I think it’s one of my favourite recipes to date.
Ultimate Green Sauce:
Large handful spinach
Small handful mint
Small handful coriander
1 green chilli
1 green capsicum
2 spring onions
6 tbsp sesame oil
6 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tsp crushed ginger
2 tsp crushed lemongrass
2 lemons
1/4 cup peas
1/4 cup edamame 1
1/2 broccoli head
1 tbsp almond butter
1/4 cup water
Salt & Pepper
Place spinach, mint leaves and coriander into a blender. Chop capsicum, chilli and spring onions and add to the blender with the other ingredients. Pour in the sesame oil and apple cider vinegar, and squeeze in lemon juice, then spoon in the ginger and lemongrass. Blitz until smooth then prepare the rest of the ingredients. Defrost peas and edamame if using frozen, then add these to the blender and half prepared sauce, drizzle in a bit of water and blitz again. Chop up broccoli florets and steam either by placing in the microwave in a bowl with a little bit of water, or in a steamer. Season, add the remaining water and blitz again. Set sauce aside. It will keep overnight.
Honey Soy Chicken & Soba Noodles
4 chicken thighs
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp honey
3 sticks soba noodles
1 extra tbsp sesame oil for soba noodles
1 green chilli & coriander for garnish (optional)
Place chicken thighs in a bowl and pour on soy sauce, first lot of sesame oil and honey onto the chicken, mix with tongs and leave for about 30 minutes, (you can make the sauce in this time). Boil a pot of water, while you’re waiting for it to heat up, place chicken into a non stick pan on a medium high heat. Cook for about 5-7 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Once the water is boiling cook soba noodles according to pack instructions then drain and spoon into bowls. Add the remaining water and almond butter and blitz again. Drizzle on the remaining sesame oil to stop them from sticking together. Once chicken is cooked, slice into strips, then pour the green sauce on top of the noodles, then place the chicken on top. Dice up the chilli and coriander and sprinkle on top. Serves 4.
Words & Image— @alexskitchenstory
