Description
A flavorful slow cooker recipe for Salt & Pepper Sticky Chicken featuring tender chicken breast chunks cooked in a savory and sticky sauce with ginger, soy sauce, and spices, finished with crunchy red peppers and spring onions. Perfect served with rice or noodles for an easy, satisfying meal.
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken and Sauce
- 800 g (28 oz) Chicken breast, cut into chunks
- 1 tbsp Ginger puree
- 2 tbsp Tomato ketchup
- 6 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice
- 1/2 tsp Chilli flakes
- 1/2 tsp Garlic granules
- 1 tsp Brown sugar
- 1 tsp Black peppercorns, crushed
Vegetables and Thickener
- 2 Red peppers, diced
- 6 Spring onions, cut into long pieces
- 1 tbsp Cornflour
- Sea salt, to taste
To Serve
- Rice
- Sliced red chillies
Instructions
- Add Ingredients to Slow Cooker: Place all of the ingredients except the red peppers, spring onions, and cornflour into the slow cooker. Stir well to combine, then cover with the lid.
- Slow Cook Chicken: Cook on HIGH for 3 hours or on LOW for 5 hours, allowing the chicken to become tender and absorb the flavorful sauce.
- Make Cornflour Slurry: In a small bowl, mix the cornflour with enough liquid from the slow cooker to make a smooth paste. Gradually pour the slurry back into the slow cooker and stir well to thicken the sauce.
- Add Vegetables and Season: Add the diced red peppers and spring onions to the slow cooker. Season with sea salt to taste, considering the saltiness of the soy sauce used.
- Final Cook: Cook on HIGH for an additional 30 minutes so the vegetables remain slightly crunchy and the sauce thickens to a sticky consistency.
- Serve: Serve the sticky salt and pepper chicken hot with rice and sliced red chillies for extra heat if desired.
Notes
- Pepper: Substitute Sichuan peppercorns for black peppercorns for an authentic peppery flavor.
- Serving Suggestions: Excellent with egg noodles, rice noodles, classic steamed rice, or served alongside egg fried rice and prawn crackers.
- Peppers: Adding red peppers at the end keeps them crunchy; add earlier if you prefer them softer.
- Salt: Adjust the sea salt carefully, depending on the soy sauce saltiness and your taste preference for perfect seasoning.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 350 kcal
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 900 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 45 g
- Cholesterol: 75 mg
