Welcome into the kitchen at SoBros HQ – we’re takin’ some of our favorite things to make and sharing it with our most loyal readers (that’s you). Simple recipes, for easy, fulfilling dinners and good times galore – that’s our aim with the SoBros Recipe Book.
Let’s just file this one in the “could never publish in an actual SoBros cookbook because it’s not my recipe, but it is too interesting not to share” category. We’re just having fun here. This series is equal parts cookbook and equal parts recipe swap. We’re like the little old church ladies swapping recipes after Sunday service. Kind of. You get my point, anyway. Full disclosure – it’s a WeightWatchers recipe. I’m a huge WeightWatchers fan. We have somehow ended up with like three different WeightWatchers cookbooks, and I love pulling recipes out of them. For one, they usually feature simple ingredients, and they’re pretty easy to execute. For another, they’re usually pretty good for you! Hell, they don’t call ’em WeightWatchers for nothing!
I am all about simple, easy, and at least somewhat healthy. I stay pretty busy but since I’m the one in the household who doesn’t have a daily commute for work, I’m almost always the one prepping dinner. This recipe checks that box of ‘easy and quick to make.’ But, it packs an incredibly flavorful punch. And since it is available freely on the WeightWatchers website, I figured it was okay for me to write about it here and share it with our little club.
After looking through a few cookbooks for new recipes to try, my wife came across this one. She’s a huge chicken piccata fan, but it’s not something we regularly make. I absolutely love the combination of flavors – I never cook with capers, but I love them in conjunction with the sherry, the shallot, and the lemon. Also, that’s a pro tip for this one – you can garnish the dish with the lemon wedge at the end. It does give it the slightest tinge of lemon flavor with the definite lemon aroma. But, I like to dial it up a notch. I’ll squeeze the lemon over my plate and stir it up to really get that lemon flavor going throughout the dish. Factor in the addition of some soy sauce and a coating of corn starch that gives the dish a certain thickness, and you’ve got something that draws on classic flavors to create something new and unique.
It might look like a fairly decently long ingredients list, but I promise the bulk of this stuff is probably stuff you already have on hand. For us, we just had to buy the shallot, capers, string beans, and sherry cooking wine. Totally worth it – this one instantly became a rotational contender for us. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
What You’ll Need
- 1lb Uncooked boneless skinless chicken breast (I cubed mine instead of thinly slicing it)
- 3 tbsp Sherry wine
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 3/4 tsp table salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 cup fat free chicken broth
- 1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- 4 tsp peanut oil (vegetable oil will do)
- 1 shallot
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 cups string beans
- 1 tbsp capers
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1/2 medium lemon, cut into 4 wedges
What to Do
If you like the ingredients listed, hit up the WeightWatchers website for the instructions.
Finished Product
Okay, that’s not my photo, and that’s definitely not what my batch looked like, but it was surprisingly pretty damn close, so I’ll take it. Image courtesy of WeightWatchers.
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