Family Recipes
What's On Your Plate? Family Recipe Contest
The D34 Food & Nutrition Services Department wants to serve your favorite family recipe on the D34 lunch menu this spring.
Submit a recipe for an entree or side dish (fruit, vegetable, or grain). All recipes will be reviewed by a panel of Food & Nutrition Services staff members. Finalists will be updated to meet the federal nutrition guidelines and then tested and rated by students.
The winning recipe will be featured on the school menu this spring! The winning student(s) also will be invited to help serve their recipe at lunch.
Last year, over 300 students at 5 of the District’s schools sampled the recipe finalists and selected the winning recipe. The winning recipe was shared by a Lyon Family and featured on our Spring menu, Yum Yum Chicken! It remains a favorite menu item at both Middle Schools this year. Please submit your favorite family recipe this year!
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2023-24 Winning Recipe: 🍗 Yum Yum Chicken 🍗
Courtesy of Emmett Schad and his family
Serves 2-4 people
Ingredients
1 pound chicken thighs
1/4 cup butter
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sriracha sauce
1/4 cup honey
2 cups broccoli
1/4 cup scallions
2-4 cups steamed white or brown rice
1/4 cup peanuts
Directions
Cut up chicken thighs into small pieces
Cook in pan for 3-4 minutes on medium heat
Add the scallions and cook an additional 2 minutes
Meanwhile in a bowl, combine melted butter, soy sauce, sriracha, and honey stir well
Add sauce to pan and let come to boil with the chicken thighs
Add the broccoli and stir until broccoli is coated with sauce
Cook for ten minutes until cooked down, stirring occasionally
Add the peanuts and stir in with the chicken mix
Serve over a cup of rice and enjoy!
Optional: add sesame seeds and green ends of scallions on top of chicken