Chef_Beast’s BodyBlog

A fairly recent favorite dish of ours, is this dish here for what i"ll call "Soy-encrusted sweet&sour turkey" (or chicken)

Directions:

I grind up a ton of dried soybeans to make a chunky-grained soy flour with my badass Cuisenart food processor, then using a good cup of this, seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder creates the coating. I just beat one egg, and I toss in some fairly big but bitesized cubes of turkey breast in the egg to get them ’sticky’. Then I toss all the coated cubes into the big tub with the soybean coating, and toss it around and it gets all the soy flour and bigger crunchier bits to coat it. then in a skillet, i heat up some olive oil to about medium, and plop in the coated turkey cubes sizzling in there, turning them to lightly brown each side. If there was a lot of extra coating that fell off in this process (which starts to burn at the bottom) then after hte turkey is done, I take out the turkey pieces, dump out the excess coating, and put the turkey back in and just for hte very last minute, I toss them around with just enough Sweet & sour chili sauce (spicy-hot), and voila!
So essentially it turns out to be a somewhat improved/healthier version of fried chicken you get in asian stir-fry dishes– first off turkey has a mildly better proportion of amino acid quantities compared to chicken, and it does not use regular carbohydrate-loaded flour as a batter– instead soybeans ground up have an excellent large proportion of protein, some good lipids and low in carbs. Importantly for this dish it delivers that extra bit of crunch without it having to be deep-fried. Just some good ol olive-oil sautee work gets it just right! And not to mention, olive oil is among the best types of oil to heat to high temperatures without forming trans-fats (unlike Canola oil)

I’ve served it many times, over a bed of vegetables and/or rice noodles, or rice, or just plain, and there’s never been leftovers!

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