Chicken with Peanut Sauce

This post is dedicated to the toddler, who LOVES anything peanut.

Chicken with Peanut Sauce

Ingredients for chicken skewers:

• 1 pound chicken tenders or breasts, cubed, all visible fat removed
• Tastefully Simple Seasoned Salt
• olive oil
• 1 large mango, peeled, pitted and sliced

Ingredients for peanut sauce:

• 2 parts natural peanut butter
• 1 part rice wine vinegar
• 1 part soy sauce
• sugar to taste (or Splenda if you're SBDing)
• water

Directions:

• Toss chicken with TSSS and a tablespoon of olive oil.  Thread onto skewers, alternating with mango slices, and grill until chicken is fully cooked.
• For the sauce, whisk peanut butter, vinegar, soy sauce and a teaspoon or two of sugar until smooth.  Add water, a little at a time, to thin it out to desired consistency.
• Drizzle sauce over cooked chicken and serve immediately.
• The sauce is good over any accompanying veggies (steamed broccoli, cabbage, carrots, etc.) as well, and great over brown rice or soba noodles.

If you're using "mainstream" peanut butter (like Jif or Peter Pan) instead of natural peanut butter, you can omit the added sugar since it already has sugar in it.  Natural peanut butter only has peanuts, and maybe salt, in the ingredients.

If you like your sauce a little spicy, you can add red pepper flakes to it.

2/14/2011: