Oriental coconut chicken

Name: Oriental coconut chicken | Asda Good Living
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 400ml can reduced-fat coconut milk; 4 chicken breast fillets; 1 stem lemongrass; 2 red or green chillies (de-seeded); 1 Lime (zest of, plus 5 tbsp juice); 2 tbsp Blue Dragon Thai Fish Sauce; 2 level tsp caster sugar; 1 tbsp groundnut oil; 1 tbsp Amoy Reduced Fat Soy Sauce; Romaine lettuce leaves; ¼ cucumber (de-seeded and cut into thin, long strips); 1 small fresh pineapple (skin and core removed, cut into thin slices); 2 carrots (cut into thin batons); 4 spring onions (trimmed and sliced finely lengthways); 25g roasted salted peanuts (roughly chopped); 1 level tbsp caster sugar for the dressing; Lime wedges; Fresh coriander

Poaching the chicken in coconut milk infused with lemongrass gives it a fragrant, delicate flavour.

By Asda Good Living,21st September 2015

(3 votes)

Cook: 45 Mins

Serves: 4

Price: £2.15 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 477g serving contains

Energy
1960kj
468kcal

23%

Fat
11.5g

Med
16%

Saturates
2.5g

Med
13%

Sugars
22.8g

High
25%

Salt
2g

High
34%

of your 5-a-day

of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
411kj/98kcal

Ingredients

400ml can reduced-fat coconut milk

4 chicken breast fillets

1 stem lemongrass

2 red or green chillies (de-seeded)

1 Lime (zest of, plus 5 tbsp juice)

2 tbsp Blue Dragon Thai Fish Sauce

2 level tsp caster sugar

1 tbsp groundnut oil

1 tbsp Amoy Reduced Fat Soy Sauce

Romaine lettuce leaves

¼ cucumber (de-seeded and cut into thin, long strips)

1 small fresh pineapple (skin and core removed, cut into thin slices)

2 carrots (cut into thin batons)

4 spring onions (trimmed and sliced finely lengthways)

25g roasted salted peanuts (roughly chopped)

1 level tbsp caster sugar for the dressing

Lime wedges

Fresh coriander

Method

Put the coconut milk in a pan with the chicken breasts. Remove the tough outer leaves from the lemongrass and bash it with a rolling pin or the base of a heavy pan. Halve one of the chillies and add to the pan with the lemongrass, lime zest, 2 tbsp of the lime juice, 1 tbsp of the fish sauce, 2 level tsp caster sugar and 100ml water

Bring to the boil, cover the pan and poach very gently for 25 minutes. Leave to cool, then remove the chicken fillets and shred or cut into small pieces

To make the dressing, whisk together the oil and soy sauce with the rest of the fish sauce and lime juice, plus 1 level tbsp caster sugar. Finely chop the remaining chilli and add to the dressing

Put the lettuce leaves on plates with the chicken, cucumber, pineapple slices, carrot batons and spring onions. Sprinkle with the chopped peanuts. Drizzle on the dressing and serve with lime wedges and sprigs of fresh coriander.

You can strain and freeze the coconut milk cooking liquid after it has cooled and use it to make a tasty noodle soup or to poach more chicken.