STICKY SOY AND SESAME CHICKEN WITH SPINACH SALAD, ORIENTAL DRESSING AND CARAMELISED LIMES
Ingredients
- 2 chicken thighs
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp clear honey
- 2 limes
- halved
- 2 garlic cloves
- crushed
- ½ tsp chilli flakes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large handful spinach
- washed
- 5-6 drops Tabasco sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- dash olive oil
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
- Place the chicken thighs into a non-reactive dish
- add the soy sauce
- honey
- juice from the limes
- garlic
- chilli flakes and half of the olive oil and mix together. Set aside the squeezed lime halves. Leave to marinate for five minutes
- or up to thirty minutes if time permits.
- Heat an oven-proof frying pan
- add the remaining olive oil
- add the chicken and squeezed lime halves and fry for three minutes on one side
- or until turning golden. Turn the chicken over and place the oven-proof frying pan into the preheated oven. Cook the chicken for 15 minutes
- or until it is cooked through.
- To make the salad
- place the spinach
- Tabasco sauce
- soy sauce and sesame seeds into a large bowl and mix together.
- To serve
- pile the spinach salad onto a serving plate and top with the chicken and lime halves.

