Seasame Chinese Chicken and Green Beans

I'm back with another recipe that the girls absolutely loved. It was another night of clean plates. I'm usually the one to cook Chinese in this household but I guess Brian has been watching as he came up with this awesome gem.

Ingredients:
2 Tbsps. sesame seeds
2 Tbsps. extra virgin olive oil
5 cloves garlic minced
2 tsp. ginger
1/2 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
2 Tbsps. fresh basil chopped
Frank's red hot to taste
2 lbs. chicken diced
9 cups frozen green beans

Directions:
1. Place the oil and sesame seeds in a small pan.
2. Toast the sesame seeds on low heat until brown.
3. Mash the sesame seeds to release their flavor with a spoon.
4. Add 3 cloves of the garlic, 1 tsp. of the ginger, 1 tbsp. of the basil and all the soy sauce to this mixture.
5. Stir well and then add Frank's Red Hot to taste.
6. Divide this mixture in half
7. Cook green beans per instructions on the package.
8. Place chicken with the remaining 2 cloves garlic, 1 tsp. ginger and 1 tbsp. of basil in a sauté pan.
9. Cook chicken until brown on med-high heat stir frequently.
10. Add half the soy/sesame oil mixture to the chicken.
11. Mix until well coated
12. Mic the other half of the soy/sesame oil mixture into the green beans once cooked and drained.

 I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did. I served it with whole wheat pasta as I had some left over from another meal this week, but it would be good with brown rice also. If you are on the 21 Day Fix eating plan one cup of green beans is one green and 1/3 tsp. 3/4 cup chicken is one red and 2/3 tsp.