Sesame teriyaki chicken

What I made for dinner tonight:

This is one of my favourite dishes.

Sweet teriyaki chicken with onions with a Japanese flavour.

Ingredients:

1 cup sliced onions
1 cup boneless skinless chicken breast cut into chunks
1/2 tbs dashi powder (Japanese fish stock) 2 tbs soy sauce 2 tbs cooking rice wine
1.5 tbs splenda (regular sugar can be used, but nutritionals will vary)
1 tsp each minced ginger and garlic
salt to taste

1 tsp white or black sesame seeds (optional)
3/4 cup clear konnyaku (shirataki) noodles (optional) *
1 tsp agar powder to thicken sauce (optional) *
cooking spray

Method:

1. Coat non-stick pan with cooking spray
2. Put in ginger, garlic, and onion slices, fry about 3-5min until onion is soft and slightly brown. Continously stir to avoid burning onions

3. Dissolve agar powder and dashi powder in 3/4 cup water and add to pan, adding more water as needed. Cover and cook until onions are translucent and soft (5min)
4. Add chicken, soy sauce, wine, splenda, and salt.
5. Add shirataki noodles. I put the noodles on one side because I wanted to serve the chicken and noodles seperately. You can also mix the noodles in with the rest of the ingredients.

6. Reduce heat to medium and cover to cook for about 7min.
7. Remove cover to reduce sauce (about 5min)
8. Stir in sesame seeds.
9. Plate and sprinkle some more sesame seeds on top to garnish.

Serves 3

Approx calories per serving: 135kcal

Approx fat per serving: 2g

*Notes:

I used agar powder to thicken up the sauce instead of cornstarch as agar i

s calorie free

Konnyaku noodles are transparent chewy noodles which is also calorie free. It's great as a noodle/rice substitute. Here is a picture of the noodles in the package below:

My dinner rice bowl!

I layered 1/3 cup of cooked white rice with a big spoonful of konnyaku noodles and topped it with 1/3 recipe of the sesame teriyaki chicken.

I added a couple bunches of boiled baby bokchoy and a slice of pickled radish (takuan).

I also ate it with a bit of korean kimchee which by the way is only 35kcal per cup.

My wonderfully delicious dinner came under 300kcal!