Sweet and Spicy Thai Chicken
This Sweet and Spicy Thai Chicken pairs moist chicken breasts simmered in a spicy sweet chili sauce with creamy lime coconut quinoa and topped with crunchy peanuts. This easy to make Thai chicken dish is sure to be your new favorite 30 minute meal and is better than take-out!
Ingredients
Thai Chili Sauce and Chicken
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 - 4 thin chicken breasts
- 3/4 cup sweet chili sauce
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 4 - 6 garlic cloves minced
- 1 lime juiced
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons sriracha or more to taste
Coconut Lime Quinoa
- 2 cups quinoa
- 13 ounce can of coconut milk
- 1 1/4 cup chicken stock
- 2 limes juiced
Extras
- 1/3 cup peanuts chopped
- 3 tablespoons cilantro chopped
Instructions
- To make this Spicy Thai Chicken with Coconut Lime Quinoa, start by preheating the oven to 400 degrees and then start making your sauce. In a medium saucepan combine the chili sauce, soy sauce, minced garlic, rice wine vinegar, brown sugar, lime juice and sriracha and bring to a low boil over medium high heat.
- While your sauce is cooking, add olive oil to a large skillet and heat over medium high heat. You can also use a grill pan if you have one. Add chicken breasts and cook for 3-4 minutes a side before moving the chicken breasts to a 9 x 9 baking dish.
- Pour 3/4 of the chili sauce over the chicken and then move the baking pan to the oven to cook for 20 minutes. While your chicken is cooking, make your coconut lime quinoa. Add 2 cups of uncooked quinoa, one can of coconut milk and chicken stock to a medium sized sauce pan, cover and cook per package instruction cooking times. Once cooked, squeeze and stir in juice of two limes.
- Once your chicken has cooked and your quinoa is done, serve up your quinoa on a big family platter, add the chicken and drizzle on the remaining sauce. Garnish with chopped peanuts and cilantro.
Notes
Expert Tips for Perfect Sweet Chili Chicken
- If your chicken breasts are a bit on the thick side, slice them in half horizontally so that your have two thin chicken cutlet style pieces.
- Sweet chili sauce is carried in most grocery stores in the international section of the store where you would usually find your soy sauce.
- If quinoa is not your favorite, feel free to substitute it with brown or white rice, jasmine rice or basmati rice and follow the cooking times on the back of the box.
- The chopped peanuts are my favorite part but feel free to leave them off if you would like and be mindful of anyone with peanut allergies when serving this dish.