Keto chicken stir-fry with shirataki noodles
Asian fast food at its best, in the comfort of your own kitchen. Naturally gluten-free shirataki noodles are the secret ingredient in this tasty, healthy—and quick—keto dish.
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Ingredients
- ½ lb 225 g shirataki noodles
- ¾ lb 325 g boneless chicken thighs or chicken breastchicken breasts
- 3 tbsp 3 tbsp coconut oil or light olive oil
- 3 oz. 75 g celery stalkcelery stalks
- 5 oz. 150 g oyster mushroomoyster mushrooms
- ½ ½ orange bell pepperorange bell peppers or yellow bell pepperyellow bell peppers
- salt and ground black pepper
Hot sauce
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp sesame oil or light olive oil
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp rice vinegar or cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp tamari soy sauce
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp sriracha sauce
- 1 1 garlic clove, mincedgarlic cloves, minced
Instructions
- Place the noodles in a colander and rinse well under running water for 1-2 minutes. Squeeze out all the water. The less water, the better the texture will be.
- Cut the chicken into thin strips. Heat up oil in a frying pan or wok and fry the chicken for a few minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add vegetables and noodles and keep frying for a few more minutes.
- Mix all ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl. Combine well.
- Add half the sauce to the wok and toss to combine. Save the rest for serving so you can adjust the flavor to suit your taste.
Tip!
Shirataki noodles are naturally gluten-free and are made from the konjac yam, a herbaceous plant from Japan (the word "shirataki" means "white waterfall").
It's important to first rinse the noodles really well in cold water in order to remove as much of the liquid (they came packed in) as possible. This rinsing eliminates a potentially unpleasant aftertaste.
The noodles can be consumed as they are or can be prepared in different ways. Try boiling them in water or broth for a few minutes, or try frying them in oil or butter. You can also heat them up in the microwave.
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Then fry them for about 10 minutes (without any butter or oil) to get rid of the moisture. This will give the noodles a nicer texture.
The noodles should be steaming quite a bit. Make sure to stir them so they don't start shrinking and get to dry. When the steam gets less, take them off.
Then the shirataki noodles are ready to be used for whatever dish you're preparing.
I use the "Lifesum" app to track my foods.
And when I entered the ingredients into the app, It said 4 carbs (and 0 net carbs)
Why so? Am I doing something wrong, is this app perhaps not to be trusted?
Ps. I use 5 kcal, 0 carb shirataki noodles.