Chicken bang bang

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Bang Bang Chicken
Average rating: 4 out of 5 star rating

This healthy dish is guaranteed to make your taste buds explode. The chilli oil is what gives chicken bang bang a real kick.

  • Prep time: 10 mins

  • Cooking time: 10 mins

  • Total time: 20 mins

  • Serves: 4

  • Skill level: Easy peasy

  • Costs: Cheap as chips

  • Spice level Hot
  • 5 a day portion2
  • Romantic

Ingredients

  • 2 chicken skinless breast fillets
  • 500ml (1pint) chicken stock
  • 2.5cm (1in) fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 1tbsp peanut butter
  • 1tbsp clear honey
  • 1tbsp sesame oil
  • 1tsp chilli oil
  • half cucumber, cut into matchsticks
  • 1-2 carrots, cut into matchsticks
  • 4 spring onions, cut into matchsticks
  • half iceberg lettuce, shredded
  • fresh coriander, to garnish

Method

  1. Pour the stock into the saucepan, add the ginger and bring it to the boil. Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently for about 10 mins or until they are tender and cooked through.
  2. Remove the chicken from the stock, reserving the stock for the dressing.
  3. Place the peanut butter, clear honey, sesame oil and chilli oil in a mini processor or a screw topped jar with 6tbsp of the reserved chicken stock and shake well to mix together.
  4. Mix the vegetable matchsticks with the shredded lettuce and transfer to a serving plate or bowl.
  5. To serve, shred the chicken over the salad and drizzle with the sauce.

Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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