Hawaiian Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup coconut 🥥 oil (or butter 🧈)

• 1 cup sugar

• 4 bananas 🍌

• 3 eggs 🥚

• 1 cup greek yogurt 🍦

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• 2.5 cups flour

• 1 cup chopped pineapple 🍍

• 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts (or other types of nuts) 🥜

Instructions

1. Grease 2 loaf 🍞 pans or a 9x13 pan

2. Cream sugar & butter 🧈

3. Smash in bananas 🍌

4. Mix in eggs 🥚

5. Mix in yogurt

6. Mix in vanilla, salt, baking powder, baking soda & cinnamon

7. Mix in flour

8. Fold in pineapple 🍍 & nuts 🌰

9. Bake at 350 for 50 mins

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Orange Chicken

Ingredients

2 chicken🐔 breasts, cut into 1/2-inch slices 

1 ½ cups water💧

⅓ cup rice 🍚 vinegar

¼ cup lemon 🍋 juice 

3 tablespoons soy sauce 

1 Orange 🍊 juice & zest

1 cup brown sugar

2 tablespoons chopped green onion 🧅

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon garlic 🧄

¼ teaspoon red pepper 🌶 flakes

1 egg 🥚 

3/4 cup flour 

1/2 cup cornstarch

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup water 💧, ice 🧊 cold

1 Tbsp oil 

1/2 tsp salt 🧂 

oil for frying

3 tablespoons cornstarch

2 tablespoons water💧

Directions  

Combine water, rice vinegar, lemon juice, soy sauce, and orange juice for sauce into a saucepan over medium-high heat

Stir in brown sugar, green onion, orange zest, ginger, garlic, and pepper flakes; bring to a boil

Remove from heat and let cool 10 minutes

Place chicken in a resealable plastic bag

Pour in 1 cup cooled sauce

Seal the bag and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (reserve remaining sauce)

Whisk together egg, flour, cornstarch, baking powder, ice-cold water, oil, and salt

Coat chicken in the batter

Heat about 1 inch of oil on medium-high heat 

Fry chicken in batches (single layer at a time) until golden brown

Transfer chicken to paper-towel-lined plate. 

Bring reserved sauce to a boil

Mix together 3 Tbs cornstarch and 2 Tbs 

Stir into boiling sauce until thickened

Stir in chicken

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