Samples provided for review.

In addition to sending me chili sauces for review – more on that here – Lee Kum Kee also sent me some Ready Sauces to try, specifically Broccoli Beef, Kung Pao Chicken, Mongolian Beef, and Orange Chicken. A photo of their Kung Pao Chicken is below.

I’m always looking for ways to save money by cooking at home, and these sauces were all delicious and easy to use: all I had to do was dice some easily-accessible ingredients and fry them up. I made a big batch of chicken and beef dishes on Sunday, and was enjoying home-cooked meals with rice and pasta all week long.

My favorite was the orange chicken, which I enhanced by adding the fresh-squeezed juice of 1 orange, along with garlic and ginger — you can see those big chunks of garlic and ginger in the photo above. Those ingredients really made the flavor of everything pop!

I also found myself really liking the Mongolian beef — it was a bit spicier than I expected, though not unpleasantly so. As you can see from the photo above, this is REALLY simple to make: just 3 ingredients!

To make my meals more nutritious, I had vegetable stir-fried rice as a side with most of these dishes. I’ll share the recipe for that below.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups cooked brown rice
• 1/4 large onion, diced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 3 carrots, diced
• 5 scallions, diced
• 10 sprigs cilantro, leaves only
• 3 cloves garlic, diced
• one 1″ cube of ginger, diced
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce
• Black pepper, to taste
• Olive or sesame oil, to taste

Steps:

1. Fry carrots, bell peppers, and onions in oil for 5 minutes, until the bell peppers start to soften slightly.
2. Add scallions, cilantro, garlic, and ginger. Fry for 2 minutes, until aromatic.
3. Slowly add the rice, a handful at a time, so that it doesn’t clump. Stir carefully with a wooden cooking spoon.
4. Add pepper, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Cook an additional 10 minutes, until the carrots soften and the flavors are thoroughly mixed.

Everything I tried from Lee Kum Kee was delicious. Combine their Ready Sauces with some protein and boil some noodles with frozen vegetables for a complete, hot weeknight meal you can make in less than 40 minutes!

Look for Lee Kum Kee Ready Sauces in a grocer near you, and be sure to check them out on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube!

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Catherine has been blogging since the 1990s, and has cooked in kitchens on 3 continents. She loves incorporating ingredients from her travels across the US and world... with varying degrees of success. Join her as she makes messes in the kitchen and tries to clean them up.

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