Air fryer salt & pepper chicken
Make this salt and pepper chicken in your air fryer for an easy midweek meal for the whole family. Serve with rice, spring onions and soy sauce
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Prep:15 mins
Cook:32 mins
- Serves 4
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 206
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fat 10g
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saturates 2g
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carbs 9g
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sugars 0g
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fibre 3g
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protein 20g
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salt 1.2g
Ingredients
- 400g boneless, skinless chicken thighs , roughly chopped
- 1½ tsp cornflour
- ¾ tsp Szechuan pepper , crushed (or use black pepper)
- 1 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
- 1 red chilli , finely chopped
- 2 red peppers , roughly chopped
- 6 spring onions , 4 roughly chopped, 2 sliced on the diagonal
- 1½ tsp olive oil
- 2 pak choi , leaves separated
- ½ tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine
- cooked rice and soy sauce, to serve
Method
Heat the air fryer to 200C. Combine the chicken with the cornflour, ¾ tsp salt, the Szechuan pepper and five-spice powder. Tip into the air fryer basket and cook for 15 mins until cooked through. Tip onto a plate and set aside.
Tip the chilli, peppers and roughly chopped spring onions into a bowl and toss with the olive oil, then tip into the air fryer basket and cook for 10 mins. Add the pak choi leaves and cook for a further 5 mins. Scoop everything from the air fryer into a bowl along with the chicken, honey and rice wine. Stir together, then return it all to the air fryer and cook for 2 mins. Scatter over the remaining spring onions and serve with the cooked rice and soy sauce.
