Asian-ish chicken and cabbage

Ingredients:

Boneless chicken breasts, thick part butterflied

Cabbage — savoy or napa preferably; or regular ol’ green

Mushrooms — I like shiitake 

Stock — vegetable or chicken

Blend:

Hot pepper

Garlic

Ginger

Soy sauce

Fish sauce

Turmeric (if fresh)

Brown sugar, a pinch

Whir together and marinate chicken breasts.

Put up rice to cook.

Cut up:

Cabbage, sliced

Onion, 1/4 diced, optional

Shiitake mushrooms, sliced

Directions:

1. Prepare ginger pepper marinade
2. Prepare rice
3. Marinate chicken. Save some marinade for the cabbage.
4. Cut up cabbage, onions and mushrooms.
5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
6. Cook cabbage: sauté in olive oil: onions, then mushrooms with salt, then cabbage, adding stock; toss and cover. Add marinade and cook.
7. Sauté chicken breasts in hot cast iron pan with olive oil. Sear on both sides, then put atop cabbage and put in oven to cook through for five minutes. 
8. Voilà!

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