Fried chicken with broccoli honey sauce

Cooking time: 8mins

Serves: 2 people

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts
half a head of broccoli
2 cloves of garlic
4 tsp of runny honey
juice of 1 lime
30 g of peeled ginger
a pinch of salt
a pinch of ground white pepper
water
2 tbsp of cooking oil
4 tsp of oyster sauce

Recently, I have been cooking healthier recipes and the other day I wanted to try out something different. So I had a look in my pantry to see what ingredients we had and then created a new recipe, which I thought was delicious.

So far the results have been very positive and, everyone said “Aroi Maak”, in Thai this means ‘very delicious’. I made it again today and it came out just as well as last time. I could share mine, but sorry, its all gone :). You will have to cook it yourself by following the method below. This dish works really well when you serve it with brown rice, so give it a try and let me know in the comments what you think. Go for it!

Method

Add some water and a bit of salt to a sauce pan and 2 tbsp of cooking oil to a frying pan and put both on the heat
Prepare chicken by slicing length ways of the chicken breast into 2 pieces so we will have 4 pieces in total.
Now put the chicken breast in a food bag and bash it with a rolling pin until it gets nice and thin. This will allow the chicken to cook evenly and quickly.
Once you done then, add some salt and ground white pepper to the chicken on both sides for seasoning
Cut the broccoli into medium sized pieces.
Chop the garlic and the peeled ginger and place in a pestle and mortar
Add the runny honey, oyster sauce, lime juice and 2 tbsp of water into the mortar and mix the sauce together.
Start to fry the chicken when the pan gets hot and cook it for 2 minutes each side.
When the chicken is cooked halfway, put the broccoli into boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes or till it is cooked. Try to make sure the broccoli is not overcooked, you want it to have a bit of crunchiness
Once the chicken is cooked then add the sauce from the mortar into the pan right on top of the chicken and continue cooking a few minutes to make our honey sauce thicken and turn darker in colour
Serve by placing the broccoli first onto a plate and putting 2 chicken pieces on each dish. Finish by pouring the rest of the sauce over the top. It's now ready to serve - enjoy :)