Best Bonnies Mandarin Chicken With Rice So Nice Recipes

BONNIE'S AMAZING RICE CAKES image

Provided by BonniE ! @ReikiHealsTheSoul

Number Of Ingredients 14

1 cup cooked, cold long grain rice
1 egg beaten
1 green onion chopped fine
1/2 cup broccoli florets, chopped
2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons mixed jack and cheddar farm style cheese
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons grape seed oil and 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil to fry
OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS
cocktail shrimp
diced bacon
diced ham
other vegetables
other spices

Steps:

This is a very versatile recipe. It is both, a side dish or a complete entrée. You can make the cakes as written with just broccoli, or get creative and add a huge variety of different vegetables, shrimp, bacon, ham, and chicken. Change it up!
Heat grapeseed oil and sesame oil in medium skillet over medium heat. (You can use olive oil, or peanut oil, too) You can also cook these cakes in an electric skillet.
Chop broccoli and green onion
Beat an egg with a fork in a small mixing bowl.
Add the rice, broccoli, green onions and cheese to the beaten egg in the bowl and mix well. The mixture should be stiff enough to pat with your hands into a couple of cakes about 3 or 4 inches in diameter. If not, add a little more rice to it.
Fry the two rice cakes in the hot oil. Gently turn when brown and fry the other side. When it is a nice golden brown, remove to a platter and keep warm.
Here is how it looks! Enjoy!

BONNIE'S MANDARIN CHICKEN WITH RICE SO NICE image

Provided by BonniE !

Categories Chicken

Time 40m

Number Of Ingredients 21

THE CHICKEN
2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, cut into chunks
1/4 cup butter to sauté chicken
SAUCE
juice from one 11 ounce can mandarin orange slices
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1/4 cup apricot preserves
1/4 cup pineapple preserves
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
RICE SO NICE
2 cups water
1 cup long grain rice, washed
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup canned mushrooms, sliced, drained
1/2 cup frozen vegetables
OTHER
reserve orange slices from 11 ounce can
reserve 1/4 cup of the sliced oranges

Steps:

1. I use the rice cooker to make the rice on the long grain rice setting. My rice cooker has a warming setting which will keep the rice hot while you finish cooking the rest of your meal. Wash the long grain rice thoroughly and add it to the rice cooker with two cups of water, one cup of washed rice and a teaspoon of salt. Add the mushrooms and frozen vegetables, If your mixed vegetables contain green beans, chop them in three pieces.
2. Melt butter in a nonstick skillet over medium low heat. Cut each chicken breast into 6 chunks and saute in the butter.
3. Brown the chicken on both sides. About ten minutes.
4. Meanwhile, drain the oranges into a small bowl and save the juice. Reserve 1/4 of the orange slices and set aside.
5. While the chicken is browning, whisk the cornstarch into the juice until it is smooth, and then add the rest of the ingredients and whisk to blend. Pour the sauce over the browned chicken in the skillet.
6. Gently scrape up the bits and pieces in the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon.
7. Cook the sauce covered over medium low heat for 30 minutes, and stir and turn chicken in the sauce several times.
8. The sauce should thicken at the end of 30 minutes. Add the reserved orange slices and cook five minutes more and then serve. Here is how it looks.
9. Serve the Mandarin Chicken over the Rice So Nice... Enjoy!