Szechuan Chicken Noodle Stir Fry

This easy dinner recipe is full of flavor, veggies, and chicken. It is extremely easy to make, and I’m positive your family will love it.

Why I love this recipe

I love this recipe because it’s easy, I usually have all the ingredients on hand, and my family devours it. Now that I got that truth out of my system I have another truth to share. We have never had high-speed internet.  GASP, I know, right?!   We have lived in our home for 15 years this month, and high-speed internet wasn’t really a thing when we built our house.  Well, not for us anyway; we were like, “You want to charge us what to run a line for what? Nah, who needs that?”.  Being ahead of the technical curve has never been one of our strong points.  Last to get cell phones.  They are literally the last people on the planet to get high-speed internet.  I’m pretty sure there are kids in the slums of Calcutta who have faster internet access than us.  Ok maybe not.  So we have been paying astronomical prices for broadband internet through that company with 5x more coverage, the one with a map with a gazillion red dots. So why are we without internet if we can get broadband through a previously mentioned company that rules the air?   Well, sometimes life can push you to your limits, and when we received our bill for January’s internet that equaled the amount of one ticket to London (and not a cheap ticket to London), my sweet-natured husband sort of lost his cool, and took the hedge clippers to the cable line. God love him!! Side note: in case you have never had anything but unlimited high-speed internet, bless your heart,  let me tell you that for broadband internet, you pay per the giggaschmigga, and if you have unlimited regular high-speed internet, you would probably be shocked at how many giggaschmiggas you use!  YouTube, netflix that stuff ain’t happening in this house with broadband people.

I’m getting hungry telling this story. Would you mind if we took a tiny break and made some din din? I’ll let you know the fairytale ending to my internet saga after dinner. See ingredient list below for what you need to make this delicious one-pan meal (well, you need another pan to cook the noodles, but because it’s just water and the pan doesn’t get too dirty, I’m calling it a one-pan meal).

Gather these ingredients

Start by adding sesame oil and chili garlic sauce to the pan and swishing the chicken breasts around in it to coat. Then, cook the chicken breasts for 6 minutes on each side. Remove from the pan and let it rest.

Next add more sesame oil. Next add all the veggies to the pan along with garlic, ginger, more chili garlic sauce, Chinese 5 Spice and soy sauce.  Toss it around, making sure vegetables are coated with all the yummy flavors.

 

Now slice up your chicken, cook the pasta, and add them to the pan with the saute’d vegetables!

 

 

Voila!  Dinner is on the table!  It’s delicious, easy, and dare I say healthy?!  Healthy, there I said it.  Now back to our regularly scheduled saga about my internet woes.

This meal is going to be a new favorite! Please take the time to give it a rating in the recipe card below and to Pin it and Share it on your socials tagging #eat2gather. Thanks for being here! XO Sheila

(If you care to hear the rest of our internet drama it’s below the recipe card.)

 

 

Okay so where was I?  Oh yes, the hedge clippers!  So it was a blustery evening sometime in late January, and I was trying to get some work done at my desk; the kids were all trying to get homework done, and throughout the house, you could hear mumbles and minor cuss words, along with computers being turned off and on, as well as the router being reset 5000 million times(by yours truly), as well as unplugged, and replugged, because sometimes this works miracles.  Finally, after my mumbles turned into loud groans and the kids were resorting to their data hotspots for internet (which is super dee duper cheap, NOT), my husband came out from under the couch cushion and stood in my office and looked very sheepishly at me.
Let’s stop there because my husband is anything but sheepish, or wimpy, or one to hide under couch cushions.  He is a man with a purpose who takes action, stands behind it, and gets the job done (with hedge clippers, apparently!). Very rarely does he doubt his actions, nor does he need to.  I married a very kind, straightforward, and wise man, but he doubted his actions that day. So there he stood all sheepish. I cursed under my breath. I looked up to see him standing there, shoulders slumped, wringing his hands,  and I was like, “Dude was whatsap with your bad self? I need to get this stuff printed for taxes, and our internet is not connecting; ugh, I’m so sick of this dadblamed crappy internet.”  I rambled and he stood wringing and slumping.  Finally, I stopped whining long enough for him to interject these words: “I might have done a really bad thing.”  Well, these are words I have never in 22 years of knowing my husband heard him say.  I thought I was going to pass out, my goodness!!  What could he have done?  Seeing that I tend to be a bit dramatic at times, of course, I forgot all about the internet, and my mind went to the netherworld of bad things, all ridiculous, of course!!!  Then he said, “I got the internet bill, and I cut the wire with the hedge clippers; I’m so sorry, I just couldn’t pay that bill one more month. People are starving, and we are paying ticket prices to London for our slow speed!”
GASP!!!  You did what? I started to laugh hysterically; the thought of my husband losing his cool and taking the hedge clippers to the internet wire outside our house was so absurd and fantastic!  Finally, done, done done done.  Done with that darn slow-speed internet!!  
Phew!  It was a relief, and the truth is, I had met a Comcast executive at a blogger event in December; she said she would attempt to work her magic and get us a line run back to our house, which is about 1/3 of a mile off the main road, not crazy far, but far enough that anytime I called Comcast to see if they would service us, they would say it’s not available in your area blahdiddy blah.   It took meeting this one sweet angel of a woman and her taking the time to make a few phone calls. I knew that high-speed internet was in our future, eventually, finally.  So it wasn’t exactly like my man when ape shit without a plan. We didn’t have an exact end date for when we would get internet-connected: April 11.  Yes, April 11 is the day The Johnsons will remember forever as the day we stepped into the 21st Century!   Answered prayer.  I honestly had been praying for this.  Praying for high-speed internet may sound ridiculous, but it’s been stressful, having to pay so much money each month, and these days, kids need it for school work. I need it for my blog, and Ken could get so much more done from home if we had it.
So, that is why I have been slacking and not blogging as much!
Right now, I’m at my dad’s house using his internet, which he doesn’t ever use. He doesn’t even have a computer, nor will he ever, but high-speed internet came with his cable package. Thank goodness, because we have been hanging out here a lot! Once in a while, I go to Starbucks, but I am too easily distracted to get anything done there! People talk loudly about their stuff, and I can’t not listen.

Ok go make your fam some of this awesome stir fry for dinner.  Thanks for listening.

If you got this far you’re a super trouper! Thanks for listening. XO Sheila