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Sweet Chili Chicken Recipe
I developed this Thai sweet chili sauce chicken because I love crispy chicken with sticky sweet sauce.
My recipe is so easy, delicious and picky eater friendly.
I assure you that everyone will love this dish!
Sweet Chili Sauce
I love Thai recipes and I am addicted to Thai sweet chili sauce.
This sweet, sticky, slightly spicy, orange-color sauce goes well with just about anything:
You can also use it as a dipping sauce for appetizers, for examples: chicken wontons, chicken lettuce wraps, shrimp cake and salmon patties.
There are endless ways to use the sauce in a variety of Asian recipes.
How to Make Sweet Chili Chicken?
This recipe calls for a few simple steps. First, cut the chicken into pieces.
Next, prepare the batter and coat the chicken pieces with the batter.
Finally, deep fry the crispy chicken and stir fry in the wok or skillet with some minced garlic, sweet chili sauce and lime juice.
To serve, garnish and top the chicken with sesame seeds, chopped cilantro and you have a winner chicken dinner!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 282 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
This meal is best served with steamed rice. For a wholesome Thai meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Sweet Chili Chicken
Ingredients
- 12 oz. skinless boneless chicken breast/thigh, cut into small pieces
- oil (for deep-frying)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 4 tablespoons bottled Thai sweet chili sauce
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white sesame
- 1/2 tablespoon chopped cilantro leaves
Frying Batter:
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup corn starch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup water (ice cold)
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients for the Batter until well combine. Add the chicken into the batter.
- Heat up a wok/skillet with about two inches of oil. As soon as the oil is fully heated, deep-fry the chicken until golden brown. Transfer the chicken out to a dish lined with paper towels to sock up the excess oil.
- Clean the wok/skillet and heat it up on medium heat. Add the oil and stir-fry the garlic until aromatic. Transfer the fried chicken into the wok, follow by the sweet chili sauce, lime juice and salt. Stir to coat the chicken well with the sweet chili sauce.
- Dish out, garnish with the white sesame and cilantro leave. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
This chicken was absolutely DELCIOUS!!! It was good just fried even without the sweet chili sauce but divine in that sauce. I left out the garlic because I just detest the flavor of garlic but that was the only change I made. Will be fixing this regularly!
Hi Cindy, thanks for trying the recipe, please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
We like your recipe, the whole family loved it,the batter is perfect for the chicken
Awesome thanks Lorna.
Hi, will it work with if I shallow fry it?
Yes sure.
So I wanted to try this because it looks delicious ?so I then made it for me and my family and we absolutely love it !!!!!! Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe ☺️?
Thanks Shania for trying this sweet chili chicken recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Thank you for your wonderful recipes! What brand sweet chili sauce is your favorite?
Hi Laura, I use Mae Ploy brand. :)
This is way better than at the restaurant where it often be dry and over cooked. This was perfect in every way, looking forward to cookbook with a collection of all your recipes. It’s hard to think of what to fix when my recipes are hiding in the index on the computer. Thanks for your great recipes. Blessings for a great new year
Hi Carolyn, thanks for trying my sweet chili chicken recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
I don’t use the sauce recipe, since I buy Panda Express Sweet Chili Chicken Sauce, but when I mix it with the chicken cooked this easy, it’s FANTASTIC. I’ve tried other ways, but none compare to thus. My family will have it no other way. I need to print it before I lose this website.
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OMG!!! It is soooooo good. I love eating this type of food and I thought that it was way harder to make. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe with the world!!!??
Hi Hannah, thanks so much for trying this sweet chili chicken.
Hi can I boil the chicken instead of deep frying it?
You can but don’t expect the same results.
Probably a dumb question but do you cook the chicken first before placing them in the oil?
I tried the other recipe on Google search and tasted horrible, nothing like that I had in Thai restaurant. So glad to have found your recipe, it’s so delish I’ll be making it over and over again. Thank you.
I am very confused, the video and the list of ingredients doesn’t suit together .. your using for example no sweet chilly sauce in your video therefore honey and ketchup what’s not on the list.
In your Text you are writing your kids are eating hot chilly without even noticing because it’s so tasty, but I can’t find and chilly in your recipe. Don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful what you are doing, but I’m not sure which ingredients I should use.. Could you help me please ? :-)
Julian
Hi Julian, the video is honey sesame chicken not sweet chili chicken.