General Tsao's Chicken - 6 WW Points

I used to cook various oriental chicken dishes with rice. It's been a while, and I needed something simple for tonight. This Weight Watchers recipe looked reasonable, so I gave it a shot.

The ingredients:


The chicken is cooking...


It looked (and smelled!) really good as it started to brown.


Time to eat!


So how was it? I thought it was good, not great. No complaints from Kaelyn, she gobbled it up without any prodding. Mark wasn't a big fan. He just said he wasn't a fan of the flavor. He did say he appreciates that I cook though... Oh well, can't win 'em all.

General Tsao's Chicken (6 WW points, including rice)
from Weight Watchers
* 3/4 cup(s) canned chicken broth, reduced-sodium
* 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
* 2 tbsp sugar
* 2 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
* 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
* 1/2 tsp ground ginger
* 2 tsp peanut oil
* 2 medium scallion(s), chopped
* 2 medium garlic clove(s), minced
* 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes, or 1 dried chili pepper, minced
* 1 pound(s) uncooked boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 2-inch pieces
* 2 cup(s) cooked white rice, kept hot
~In a medium bowl, whisk together broth, cornstarch, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and ginger; set aside.
~Heat oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add scallions, garlic and pepper and cook 2 minutes. Add chicken and cook until browned all over, about 5 minutes.
~Add reserved sauce and simmer until sauce thickens and chicken is cooked through, about 3 minutes.
~Serve chicken and sauce over rice. Yields about 1 cup of chicken and sauce and 1/2 cup of rice per serving.

A couple changes I made (that didn't effect the points value), was I used brown rice instead of white, and I eliminated the sugar and used Splenda instead.

Happy cooking!