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Coconut Chicken - Chicken Breast in Coconut and Lemon
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Coconut Chicken - Chicken Breast in Coconut and Lemon

Juicy chicken breast in a coconut-ginger sauce - an exotic Asian-style dish ready in the oven in 30 minutes

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Sprinkle the chicken on all sides with the salt.
  2. 2
    Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F).
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOven
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  3. 3
    Heat the oil in an ovenproof pan over medium-high heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
    💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
  4. 4
    Brown the chicken 3 minutes per side.
    Stove
  5. 5
    Mix the coconut milk, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, lemon juice, turmeric and hot red chili and pour the mixture over the chicken.
    Bowl
  6. 6
    Put the pan in the oven for 20 minutes.
    OvenFrying pan
  7. 7
    Let the chicken rest 5 minutes before serving.
  8. 8
    Sprinkle the cilantro on top and serve with rice.
548calories
48 gprotein
6 gcarbs
36 gfat
● protein 36%● carbs 4%● fat 60%

Per serving (334 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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