Taste of Home Recipe Finalist~Mango Chicken

The Taste of Home Cooking Contest, America’s Best Loved Recipe is down to 4 finalists. They’re having “American Idol” style voting for America’s Best Loved Recipe Contest, where you get to help decide the winner. There are four selected finalist who are competing for the GRAND PRIZE of $25,000 and a feature on Good Morning America.

Taste of Home wants cooks across the country to pick the winning recipe by voting for their favorite. From May 15 to June 15 participants can go to Taste Of Home Contest site and vote for your favorite for America’s Best Loved Recipe.

Guess what? I have all the finalists recipes to share with you here at Blisstree Food and Nutrition! I’ll be sharing them with you over the next 24 hours. I was going to put them all here in one post, but I decided all 4 finalists recipes deserve to be featured on their own.

Here’s the first recipe, Mango Chicken with Plum Sauce, from finalist Christine Vaught, of Salem, Oregon.

Mango Chicken with Plum Sauce

by Chris Vaught

SERVINGS: 6
CATEGORY: Lower Fat
TIME: Prep: 25 min. Cook: 15 min.
Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon Domino® or C&H® Granulated Pure Cane Sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce
• 1/2 pound fresh snow peas, trimmed
• 2 large carrots, sliced diagonally
• 2 medium zucchini, sliced
• 1/2 cup chopped red onion
• 1/2 medium sweet red pepper, sliced
• 1 can (4 ounces) sliced water chestnuts, drained
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 pound finely chopped cooked chicken breast (about 3 cups)
• 2 medium mangoes, peeled and mashed
• 1/2 cup plum sauce
• 2 cups hot cooked brown rice
• 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted

Directions:
In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt; stir in broth and teriyaki sauce until smooth. Cook and stir until thickened. Set aside.
In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry the snow peas, carrots, zucchini, onion, pepper and water chestnuts in oil until crisp-tender. Add the chicken, mangoes and broth mixture; heat through. Stir in plum sauce. Serve with rice. Sprinkle with almonds.

Yield: 6 servings.

Don’t forget to check out the other finalist’s recipes:

Italian Meatball Tortes

Gorgonzola Penne With Chicken

Asian Baby Back Ribs

Then go vote for  America’s Best Loved Recipe at Taste of Home.

Images and recipe courtesy of Taste of Home