Szechuan pepper chicken with tomato chilli jam

Szechuan pepper chicken with tomato chilli jam

Everyone loves finger food on a stick. These dinky chicken bites are sure to disappear in seconds

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 25

Preperation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Ready in 50 mins

Method

  1. For the jam, process the tomatoes, chilli, garlic, raisins and ginger to a purée. Pour into a pan, add the sugar, fish sauce and vinegar. Simmer for 30 minutes until thick. Cool.
  2. Cut the chicken into 3-4cm pieces. Grind the Szechuan pepper and salt coarsely - you can do it in a pepper mill. Add to the chicken with the sesame oil and mix.
  3. Heat a non-stick pan with a little sesame oil until very hot. Sear the chicken on all sides until cooked through.
  4. Push a skewer into each piece. Serve with chilli jam.
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Make the chilli jam the day before.

Per serving

63 kcalories, protein 4.3g, carbohydrate 7.4g, fat 2 g, saturated fat 0.3g, fibre 0.1g, salt 0.25 g

Recipe from olive magazine, December 2006.

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  • 13 April 2008

    Julie S rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was really tasty and I used the left-over chilli jam on sandwiches etc. I would definately make it again and will try using different meats.

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  • 24 July 2008

    Pam's commented on this recipe

    Living in Spain with an abundence of tomatoes the chilli jam has become a real favorite. I spread the chilli jam over cream cheese and serve with nachos/crisps it is delicious and many of my friends and family on holiday take the recipe/jar home with them, it is also good served with any meat, hot or cold. I quadruple the recipe and it keeps well.

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    Pam's rated and commented on this recipe

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    forgot to rate it!!!!!!

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  • 23 October 2008

    gemcheat rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Chilli jam was so lovely and really easy to make! Would definitely make again.

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  • 03 January 2009

    Lesley rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    The chilli jam was very easy to make, tastes delicious and instead of the chicken, we served it with fresh, peeled prawns on sticks to dunk. Yummy.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 25

Preperation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Ready in 50 mins

Ingredients

  • 3 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 tsp Szechuan peppers
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil , plus a little extra for frying

Tomato chilli jam

  • 250g ripe tomatoes , roughly chopped
  • 2 thumb-sized red chillies , seeded and roughly chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves , peeled
  • 30g raisins
  • 2cm piece ginger , peeled and roughly chopped
  • 150g soft brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 50ml red wine vinegar
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Per serving

63 kcalories, protein 4.3g, carbohydrate 7.4g, fat 2 g, saturated fat 0.3g, fibre 0.1g, salt 0.25 g

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