Spicy Peanut Chicken Stir-Fry

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I'm moving soon, so I'm delving into the depths of my freezer to see what is salvageable. I had a bag of freezer-burned mixed veggies that looked ... actually pretty bad once I opened them. The broccoli was shriveled, cauliflower was brown, carrots were turning pale. But I decided they probably wouldn't kill me. And I also had some slightly less elderly frozen peas and mushrooms, along with some red/green peppers I'd frozen a few months ago ... plus some relatively recently frozen chicken breast, and all the other stuff on the ingredients list here. So I tried it (with minute brown rice), and the sauce was DELICIOUS, and the freezer-burned veggies didn't even seem to suffer much - even the cauliflower was fine once it was all mixed up with everything else, and the broccoli stems weren't even tough (though I did have to drain water out of the pan before adding the sauce, since I just dumped all the veggies in straight from the freezer). The only other substitution I made was lemon juice instead of orange juice. And I got at least 4, maybe 5 meals out of it.

I'm claiming this for my "learned something valuable" bingo square due to my experiments with freezer-burned veggies, I guess.

Spicy Peanut Chicken Stir-Fry ( recipe here due to paywall )