Description
You want to make these spicy chicken bites! This is the best weekend food for adding into wraps, on toast, with couscous, salad, you name it. Use your favorite spices and make it in 10 minutes!
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 chicken breasts
- 2 tbsps. flour
- 1 tbsp chicken 13 spice
- 2 tbsps. Cajun spice
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 tbsps. olive oil
- 2 1/2 tbsps. unsalted butter
- fresh Italian parsley
Instructions
- Prepare The Chicken: Using room temperature chicken breasts, make sure they are dry by using kitchen paper or towel. If the fillets are dry, the seasoning sticks better to them and they crisp up better. If you chicken fillets are too thick, use a mallet to gently pound them down a little so they can cook faster. Cut each fillet down the middle lengthways and then cut those two lengths into cubes. Repeat until all the fillets are cubed.
- Combine The Spices: Add all the spices, salt, pepper and the flour over the chicken pieces and use a pair of tongs to combine everything together.
- Cook The Chicken: Heat a large non stick pan and add the butter to melt followed by the oil. Only when the fats are hot do you then add the chicken bites and cook them for approximately 3 minutes per side but wait for that deep browning or sear so keep the heat medium to high so they cook quickly. You don't want to overcook or undercook them.
- Serve: Garnish with fresh parsley and a squeeze of fresh lemon.
Notes
Chicken is cooked at an internal temperature of 73 to 75 C. The reason we used a mallet to pound the chicken before cutting it into cubes is so that it cooks quicker, so 3 minutes per side, give or take is good here. If you don't pound your fillets, they may take a minute or two longer. Watch the sear. If the pan is hot when you start it's quick.
Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 4 minutes
- Cook Time: 6 minutes