Quick and Easy – Chicken and Green Tea Squash

Ingredients

1.  8 ounces of cooked cubed chicken.  (Note:  I say it like this because we always have chicken on hand for snacking, ease or whenever else we need to eat a protein with our veggies.  If you do not, then cook enough chicken to make this dish.  But you should always have snacking protein available throughout the day.  I should make a post on this.)

2.  2 medium yellow squash, cut into 1″ pieces

3.  1.5 cups of vegetable broth

4.  3 tablespoons soy sauce

5.  1 cup green tea

6.  1 teaspoon ground ginger

7.  1 tablespoon of date paste.

Recipe

1.  In a medium saucepan, combine veggie broth, soy sauce, green tea, date paste and ginger and bring to a rolling boil for about 5 minutes.  This should reduce it between 1/8 to 1/4.

2.  Add the squash and cover for 4 minutes, you do not need to turn the heat back on.

3.  Uncover and place the chicken in the pot and recover.  Keep this about 3 minutes or so.

4.  Uncover this and separate into 4 servings.  Eat 2 of the servings with someone you like and put the others in the fridge for lunches.  This will be as soupy as you want.  The picture shows it less soupy.  I love broth and the soup involved, especially in the winter.

 

Total time to cook:  About 14 minutes, depending on how prepped you are.  If you have to cook the chicken, it takes longer of course.