Oriental Chicken

Photo: flickr user avlxyz

Ingredients

4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves

1 tablespoon cornstarch

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon oregano

1 clove garlic or 1 tsp.of jar kind

2 tablespoons peanut oil

1/4 cup soy sauce, low sodium

3/4 cup apple juice

or dry Sherry or apple juice

1 cup raisins optional

Preparation

1). Pierce chicken with cooking fork. Arrange around the edges of a covered 3-Quart casserole dish.

2.. In a small bowl or 2 cup measure, combine wine or juice, soy sauce, garlic, oil, cornstarch, brown sugar, oregano, & raisins. Pour over chicken.

3.. Cover and microwave on high for 11 to 13 minutes. Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes.

Serves 4.

This is a great dish for those hot, rainy summer nights - too hot to use the stove and too wet to grillI usually serve this over some quick-cooking brown or white rice. Per

Same using apple juice or dry sherry. Omitting raisins reduces the points to 5 ( even though the fiber goes down from .7 to .2 g per serving, the calories go down to 232.3) Switching from wine to apple juice reduces the calories to 222.8 when omitting the raisins - but the points remain at 5.