Sunshine Citrus Chicken Recipe (2024)

Posted: Jan 6, 2014 · Updated: May 4, 2023 · By Chrysa

This Sunshine Citrus Chicken Recipe is a healthy choice with lean chicken breast and a nutritional boost from spinach and citrus. It’s delicious!

It is terribly, terribly cold here in Minnesota right now. This morning the air temps were below -20 and the “feels like” temps were less than -40!

It’s so cold that our local Minnesota grocery store chain, Rainbow Foods, is even closing early tonight so that its employees won’t be exposed to the elements in the extra cold, dark, late hours. But Rainbow Foods is not only taking care of their employees, they are helping all of us take care of ourselves better with their new health key™ system.

The health key™ systemat Rainbow Foods is a helpful and convenient way to assist you in making better food choices, leading to a healthier life. Products throughout the store are marked with special, brightly colored shelf tags and signs offering helpful nutritional information. This information all helps your decision making process with on-the-spot information.

And this isn’t a “once size fits all” system. They have specific information available according to particular diets you may be following, whether that be gluten-free, vegetarian, low-sodium, etc. They also provide general health information by identifying products that have no added sugars, are organic, are whole grains, are heart healthy, etc. No matter your nutritional focus, thehealth key™ system should be able to help you.

When doing our grocery shopping, there are certain nutritional areas I concentrate on to make sure our diet is healthy. Some of the key areas are buying whole grains and lean protein. I also prefer organic foods when available, so it’s great to have those items clearly labeled so I can more easily make choices between various products on the shelf.

In the spirit of healthy living, and to brighten things up on a cold, cold winter day. I created this Sunshine Citrus Chicken Recipe. It uses boneless chicken breast as a source of lean protein and gets a great nutritional boost from spinach and citrus fruit. Oh, did I forget to mention that it’s also delicious???

Sunshine Citrus Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

1 1/2 boneless chicken breast, cut in bite-size pieces
salt and pepper
3 egg whites
1/3 cup corn starch
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 green onions, chopped (green and light green parts only)
3 cups fresh spinach leaves (large stems removed, roughly chopped)
3 clementines/small tangerines, segments cut in half
2 Tbsp soy sauce
2 Tbsp honey
1 tsp rice wine vinegar
2 tsp sesame seeds

How to make citrus chicken:

Prepare sauce: Mix soy sauce honey and vinegar in a small bowl. Set aside;

In a large bowl, whisk egg whites and cornstarch together. Add chicken to the bowl, season with salt and pepper and toss until coated.

Heat 1 Tbsp oil in a nonstick skillet on medium/high. Add half of the chicken and cook 6-8 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Remove to a plate and repeat the process with the remaining oil and the other half of the chicken.

Move all the chicken back to the skillet, add in garlic, onion, spinach and clementines. Continue cooking and stirring until spinach is wilted.

Stir in sauce and heat through. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top before serving.

Serve with brown rice.