Zesty Mango Chicken Bake
For Your Palate
Ingredients:
2 chicken breast
2 ripe mangoes (peeled)
1 medium yellow onion
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 lime - juice and zest
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
2 tbsp cilantro
1 tsp red pepper flakes Olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Mango Sauce:
Dice one of the mangoes and the onion. Grate the other mango on a fine grater over a bowl.
In a sauté pan add onion and cook until softened and add garlic and diced mango. Cook for one minute and add grated mango puree, chicken broth, lime juice, lime zest, ginger, salt, and red pepper flakes. Cook in oven for 5-7 minutes over medium heat. Stir in cilantro and take it off the heat and set aside.
Season chicken
breast with salt and pepper
on both sides.
Sear the chicken in a pan and then transfer it to 9 x 11 baking dish. Spread mango sauce all over the chicken, and
Tasty to the Palate!
For Your Soul
We used to have a huge mango tree in our front yard. It was a beautiful tree but very messy. My husband got tired of having to pick up rotten mangoes off the ground along with trying to keep up with the leaves falling all year long, so he decided to cut the tree down, which didn't go as well as planned.
Did you know that the evergreen tree family includes mango, cashew, pistachio, and poison ivy? Oops, my hubby is highly allergic to poison ivy! The day after cutting down our tree he broke out all over his body in what we could only say looked like and felt like poison ivy. But when he went to the doctor he was told that there is no poison ivy in the Hawaiian Islands. The doctor then asked my husband if he had been around mango trees lately. Turns out the oils in the mango tree leaves are very closely related to poison ivy! That was a lesson that my husband is not itching to repeat any time soon!
In James 3:8 we learn about a different kind of poison: “but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” The extensive dialogue about the tongue in James chapter 3 is both convicting and instructive and I highly recommend you review it from time to time.
I did a children’s lesson once on James 3:8. The object I used was a cow's tongue that I purchased from the meat market. I said that “When we gossip, lie, slander, and use our words to hurt and insult others, this is what our tongues looks like.” The kids got the point! Have you ever seen a cow's tongue....oh my!
If you find yourself having a nasty problem with your tongue, and you are itching to get rid of it, maybe it’s a good idea to stop scratching the surface and dig into the heart of the matter! With God's help you can tame your tongue, improve your relationships and I bet your taste buds will improve too!
Satisfying to the Soul!
"Remember that the tongue speaks only
what is in the heart." Theodor Epp
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