- Salad - of your choice
- 400g chicken tenderloins, or you could slice some chicken breast
- 2 eggs
- Half a cup of breadcrumbs
- Half a cup of shredded coconut
- 1 big spoon of extra shredded coconut, to toast and use as garnish
- 1 fresh mango
- Sweet chilli sauce
- 1 lime
If you want to make chips too, I used one small kumara and two small white potatoes. Wash them and cut them into fairly equal sized pieces (leave the skin on!). Mine took about 40 minutes in a 200° oven. I sprayed a tray with oil, and then a little more spray on the potatoes.
Now, on to the chicken.
Whisk up two eggs in a little bowl.
Mix together the breadcrumbs and shredded (non-toasted) coconut. If you wanted to make this gluten-free, you could substitute cornmeal (polenta) for the breadcrumbs.
Set up your 'production line'. Ideally, you will have more space than me! From left to right (if you are right-handed), you will want your chicken, egg, breadcrumbs, and hot frying pan. You don't need oil in a non-stick pan.
Dip your chicken through the production line, one piece at a time. Put it in the fry pan until it's cooked through. That's all!
Serve with salad and chips. I seasoned my chips with sumac (yum!!!) and drizzled a tiny bit of olive oil on the salad. The chicken was served on the mango slices, with a little sweet chilli sauce and lime juice on top.
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Ooooooh, yum! That sounds great - I might have to put that on the menu for next week :)
ReplyDeleteIt's even fairly nutritious! I find it strange that people think 'frying' is unhealthy. Seriously, this meal only has as much fat as the coconut and lean chicken contains - i.e. not much :-D
ReplyDeleteIt probably depends on the cut of the meat. I cooked a steak the other day which had fat along one side, and I put one tiny squirt of spray oil on one side of it to stop it sticking when I seared it, and when I had finished the pan was absolutely swimming in fat. So surely that should mean that frying made the steak **healthier** because the fat was no longer in it??? Not that I normally eat the fat along the side. Probably should have removed it before I cooked it...
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I know what you mean... I guess that's why the George Foreman grills "knock out the fat"??
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, chicken fat is pretty visible and this didn't really have any. I think 'frying' is synonymous with fat for some people because they think of deep frying? My chicken definitely wasn't reminiscent of KFC ;-)