Volcano Chicken
Ingredients
Chicken:
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless chicken breast or thigh cut into strips
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- peanut oil for frying
Sauce Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- 1 red bell pepper finely diced
- 1/2 cup sliced scallions
- 1 tbsp. chopped garlic
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger root
- 1/2 cup Thai sweet chili sauce
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon sriracha
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon dark toasted sesame oil
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves torn
For the salad:
- 1 head iceberg lettuce chopped
- 1 cucumber peeled and sliced thin
Instructions
- Prepare sauce first:
- Heat oil in a saucepan and add diced pepper, scallions and garlic, cooking until pepper softens.
- Stir in the ginger root, sweet chili sauce, lime juice, fish sauce, sriracha sauce, brown sugar and sesame oil; bring to a boil then reduce heat and keep warm.
- Prepare chicken by seasoning with salt and pepper, then coating with flour and shaking off excess.
- Pan fry chicken in shallow hot oil on both sides until golden and cooked through.
- While chicken cooks, chop lettuce and cucumbers and arrange on serving plates.
- Just prior to serving stir basil into sauce just long enough to wilt.
- When chicken is done, place chicken on lettuce and top with heated sauce.
- Serve at once.
Notes
From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com
Nutrition
Calories: 469kcalCarbohydrates: 53gProtein: 41gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.02gCholesterol: 109mgSodium: 1255mgPotassium: 935mgFiber: 3gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 1497IUVitamin C: 51mgCalcium: 63mgIron: 3mg
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