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Quick soy-glazed chicken with carrot & cucumber pickle
Photo: Lily Banse

Quick soy-glazed chicken with carrot & cucumber pickle

12 ingredients 30 min + 15 min Serves 2 openrecipes
Quick soy-glazed chicken with carrot & cucumber pickle

Sweet-sour flavours turn great-value chicken pieces into a flavour-packed meal

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

619
Calories
38g
Protein
18g
Fat
70g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • ½ tbsp Chinese five-spice powder
  • 3cm piece ginger , peeled and sliced
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 4 large skinless chicken thigh fillets, or 6 small
  • ½ small cucumber
  • 1 carrot , peeled
  • 1 tsp golden caster sugar
  • ½ red chilli , finely chopped
  • oil , for frying
  • 100g basmati rice , cooked to serve

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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