Takeaway-style Chicken
This sticky sweet and salty takeaway-style dish takes minutes. When I want comfort food, it satisfies the craving but it’s surprisingly high in fibre,...This sticky sweet and salty takeaway-style dish takes minutes. When I want comfort food, it satisfies the craving but it’s surprisingly high in fibre, diversity and protein. You could easily swap out the chicken for tofu instead if you prefer to keep it plant based. I generally use whatever vegetables I have in the fridge to toss into a wok, but the classic pairing of peppers and green beans is what I would reach for. This is a crowd-pleasing, flavourful, family-style recipe that has a ton of fibre and plant polyphenols, helping everyone to be healthier with each bite. Read more This sticky sweet and salty takeaway-style dish takes minutes. When I want comfort food, it satisfies the craving but it’s surprisingly high in fibre, diversity and protein. You could easily swap out the chicken for tofu instead if you prefer to keep it plant based. I generally use whatever vegetables I have in the fridge to toss into a wok, but the classic pairing of peppers and green beans is what I would reach for. This is a crowd-pleasing, flavourful, family-style recipe that has a ton of fibre and plant polyphenols, helping everyone to be healthier with each bite. This sticky sweet and salty takeaway-style dish takes minutes. When I want comfort food, it satisfies the craving but it’s surprisingly high in fibre, diversity and protein. You could easily swap out the chicken for tofu instead if you prefer to keep it plant based. I generally use whatever vegetables I have in the fridge to toss into a wok, but the classic pairing of peppers and green beans is what I would reach for. This is a crowd-pleasing, flavourful, family-style recipe that has a ton of fibre and plant polyphenols, helping everyone to be healthier with each bite.
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Ingredients
Method
1. Mix the soy sauce with the chicken in a mixing bowl, dust in the cornflour to coat and leave to marinate for 15–20 minutes.
2. Drizzle the chicken with the oil, then spread out evenly in a lined air fryer and cook at 200°C for 15 minutes until crispy and cooked through. Alternatively, bake in the oven at 200°C for 20–25 minutes.
3. Mix the sauce ingredients with 4 tablespoons of water and set aside.
4. Heat a large wok over a medium–high heat, add a drizzle of olive oil and cook the garlic and ginger for 30 seconds before adding the peppers and green beans or sugar snap peas and stir-frying for 3–4 minutes.
5. Add the chicken to the wok, then add the sauce and give everything a good mix. The sauce will reduce and thicken quickly so be sure to keep the ingredients moving in the wok.
6. When the sauce has thickened, remove from the heat. Serve on a platter with the warm rice, spring onions and chives. Garnish with the toasted peanuts.
User comments (46)
Very tasty just like a Chinese takeaway. I baked chicken in the oven on foil and it stuck. I think I'll try parchment next time. Also, I think I'll add some extra veggies and some white onion and cut back on the chilli flakes. Soba noodles would probably work well as a sub for brown rice too.
My son loved this and wanted the recipe. I made a vegetarian version with lentils (although tempeh would work better) and chicken for him. Really tasty and easy recipe
Chicken. Was delicious. Will make this in the air fryer often.
So tasty and filling. Really enjoyed.
The dish was really nice, so I will definitely cook it again just next time maybe using chicken breast. We can't find boneless and skinless chicken thighs so I though I will just remove the meat from the bones myself - that was not quick and easy at all. 🤦 The recipe is very good though.
Very easy recipe to throw together and it was delicious! Another win from the DK app!
Absolutely delicious! I reduced the quantity to cook for 2 people and used less of each ingredient. I will add a bit more garlic, chilli and ginger next time. The crispy chicken was easy to make and cooked well in the air fryer. I think this will become a regular addition to our meal plan.
Delicious.
Another good one, quite spicey
I love this recipe!
A firm family favourite.
Really good, will definitely cook again.
Love this dish - the crispy chicken is perfection!
Really delicious - better than a takeaway by miles!
This tasted great albeit quite salty, I would probably cook veg a little longer but definitely look forward to making it again
I used low sodium soy sauce and this recipe is delicious! Definitely a keeper!
Quite spicy will cut down on chilli flakes next time.
This is absolutely yummy. I make it at least once a week!
I often use sesame oil to fry the garlic, ginger and vegetables.
I made this for my husband and son, and that absolutely loved it. They didn’t even notice that there was lots of veg in it!
Delicious
Super tasty and easy. I will definitely use this recipe again.
Very delicious recipe. Cooked this for me and my mother in a wok and we both loved the flavour and how delicious and glossy this was. It actually tastes like a Chinese takeaway dish. Would highly recommend you give this recipe a try.
We really enjoyed this. Really made us think of chinese takeaway
We all loved it, just like a take away.
Really yummy recipe that’s become a regular meal for us. I do drop the chilli flake amount, however!
Loved this easy to make, delicious meal. Used the virtual Dr Rupy to recommend swaps for the ingredients I didn’t have, which was also very helpful!
Tastes so good.
Okay recipe, not my favourite
Gorgeous! Thank you.
Great dish
Absolutely delicious!
This is seriously good, it will be a regular weekly dish now. It’s easy to tweak the veg to what you like or have in. I didn’t add the spring onions or chives to keep the FODMAPS down.
Our family really enjoyed this one! I added even more veggies. Shredded purple cabbage and carrots. The chicken tasted amazing. Great texture.
Really fresh and tasty 😋
Tried this menu for the first time tonight and found it very very tasty, definitely going into my favourites, very Impressed with how good it was considering how easy it was to make. Once again your wizards in your kitchens working their magic to make me appear like a very competent chef. On another note I added some mixed frozen veg in the rice for the last 5 mins of cooking to add a few more vegetable points for the week.👍👍
This is a favourite in our house, we switched the chicken for crispy tofu and had it with microwave sticky rice to save a bit of time (and washing up), I love how it’s so versatile, you can use up any veg you have left over, or switch the rice out for noodles.
Really enjoyed this one. The name is fitting!
This is an excellent stir-fry with added crispy chicken, I added some broccoli and cooked the veg longer with some water and a lid on.
Took longer than I thought but worth it. Absolutely delicious.
Delicious, perfect for any night of the week
I’ve made this four times already we love it so much. Perfect for a Sat night takeaway !
Loved it.
I just to need to make a little bit more sauce next time.
Loved it.
I just need make a little bit more sauce next time.
Gorgeous!
One of my favourites and really hits the mark as a healthy alternative to takeaway. Thank you.
So good just like a take away!!!
My first recipe - I didn’t have all the ingredients but I made do and really enjoyed the end result. Onwards & upwards.