Lime leaf chicken with sweet chilli and peanut dipping sauce
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + 30 minutes chilling
- Easy
- serves 4
Ingredients
- 35 lime leaves
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 2 tsp honey
- 3 spring onions, chopped
- vegetable oil
- 4 chicken breasts, cut into small cubes
peanut chilli dipping sauce
- 150ml rice vinegar
- 175g caster sugar
- chopped to make 1 tbsp coriander
- 1 medium red chilli, finely sliced
- 1 tbsp roasted peanuts, ground
Method
- STEP 1
Soak 20 wooden skewers in water. Take 15 lime leaves, pull off the stalks and finely chop. Leave the remaining ones whole. Combine the garlic, fish sauce, honey, spring onions and vegetable oil in the food processor.
Skewer the chicken with 1 whole lime leaf in between the cubes, put in a flat dish and pour over the marinade. Chill for at least 30 minutes or until ready to grill. - STEP 2
Make the chilli sauce by heating the rice vinegar and sugar. After it boils, turn the heat down and cook for about 3 minutes until thickened. Cool then add the remaining ingredients. Cook the chicken on a bbq, grill pan or frying pan until brown, about 2-3 minutes each side. Serve with the chilli dipping sauce.
