Month: Feb 2025

Pulled barbecue chicken

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Perfect topper for a sandwich, jacket potato, pasta. In fact, any carb. Yum.

  • 2 tsp garlic oil
  • 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
  • 1 onion, sliced finely
  • 3 heaped tbsp barbecue sauce
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 heaped tbsp tomato puree
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 heaped tsp dijon mustard
  • Salt and black pepper
  1. Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat
  2. Brown the whole chicken thighs in the pan on both sides, then remove to a plate
  3. Turn the heat down, add the sliced onion and cook, stirring, until translucent
  4. Add the rest of the ingredients, plus about 60ml water, stir together and bring to a bubble
  5. Add the chicken back to the pan, stir together, stick the lid on and cook on a low heat for 30 mins
  6. When the time is up, remove the chicken from the pan and shred with a fork. Then pop it back in and stir to coat in the sticky sweet-savoury sauce

Cashew chicken

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Takeaway staple, and deeply delicious savoury weeknight dinner. Customise however you like (change up the veg, protein, accompanying carb). And, if you have an air fryer, experience the small joy of being able to produce perfectly toasted cashew nuts in just 3 mins. Feeds 2

  • ½ tbsp cornflour
  • 1½ tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp shaoxing rice wine
  • 1½ tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • White pepper
  • 300g chicken thighs, sliced into thin slices
  • 1 tbsp veg oil
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 3 spring onions, cut into 1″ lengths
  • Baby corn, sliced in half lengthways
  • 3 tbsp water
  • Handful of cashews, toasted
  1. Mix cornflour and soy sauce until there’s no lumps. Then mix in the shaoxing, oyster sauce, sesame oil and a good pinch of white pepper
  2. Put the sliced chicken into a bowl and mix in 2 tbsp of the sauce mixture. Mix to coat and set aside for 10 mins
  3. Heat veg oil over high heat in a wok, add the garlic and spring onion, and stir fry for 1 min
  4. Add chicken and cook for around 4 mins. Add baby corn and cook for an additional minute
  5. Add sauce and water, then turn the heat down. Bring to simmer and cook, stirring, for 1 min or until sauce thickens and the chicken is cooked through
  6. Stir through the toasted cashews, remove from the heat and serve immediately with noodles and maybe some steamed pak choi