It’s a Spice Bag Hun! Lush! This was just voted Ireland’s favourite takeout dish and it’s easy to see why with spicy crispy fried chicken, golden chips and colourful veggies, my kitchen smells divine! yummy. The real version comes in at a whopping 1,200+ calories. But with this healthy version you don’t have to worry about it damaging your waistline. This rolls in at an amazing 9 Smartpoints or 2 Smartpoints on No Count (9 proproints or 2pp on filling and healthy) and serves 4 hungry people. The perfect weekend comfort dinner. It really is a delicious replica takeaway recipe that is well worth making. I know some people refer to them as a ‘fake away’ but I just can’t do it! the word alone makes my skin crawl! – that and the word ‘scrumptious’ or ‘zero heroes’ when referring to fruit & veg *shudder* Anyway, I digress call it what you will, I thoroughly enjoyed it and my kitchen smells gorgeous whilst cooking it and I hope you enjoy it too. Here’s the skinny:
500g chicken fillet
800g peeled potatoes
1 red, yellow and green pepper finely sliced
1 red onion finely sliced
60g dried semolina
15g cornflour
1 egg
2 tsp chilli flakes
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp chinese five spice
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
Pre-heat the oven to 200c. Dice the chicken into nugget sized pieces. Cut the peeled potatoes into chip shapes. Place the chips on a plate and microwave for three minutes. Spray the chips well with spray oil and place in the oven on a mesh chip tray or on a baking sheet sprayed with oil and bake for 30 minutes. Place a baking tin in the oven for the last five minutes of the chip cooking time to heat through. Meanwhile mix all the spices together in a small bowl. Mix the semolina and corn flour together in a separate bowl. Whisk the egg in another bowl. Place three quarters of the spices into the semolina mix and mix well. Pre-heat a large nonstick frying pan sprayed with oil. Dip the chicken pieces into the egg and lightly coat in the semolina mixture. Place in the frying pan and cook for 5 to 6 minutes each side until golden brown. Remove from the pan and set aside. Re-spray the pan with sprayoil and fry the peppers and onions until soft approximately 5 minutes. Remove the preheated baking tin from the oven and combine the chips breaded chicken and vegetables and sprinkle over the reserved remaining spices mix gently and well. Return to the oven for an extra five minutes of cooking time. If you like it hotter feel free to add extra chilli flakes, cayenne or slice a fresh red chilli & fry with the veggies. Serve immediately whilst hot and enjoy!
The Spice Bag Hun!
Sounds nice but far to much spices for me if was to make can the spice ingredients be removed and replace with other as don’t like really spicy foods if was to eat anything spicy the level of it is mild.
Thanks just wondering
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Hi Jacqueline, you most certainly can reduce the spices if you don’t like spicy food or even omit them and just season the semolina & cornflour with salt & pepper instead or use the Chinese 5 spice and maybe not the chilli flakes ir cayenne pepper if you’re not a spice liker. I hope this helps 😃
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Hiya just wondering could you used brown bread and spices instead of the semolina as ive none in the house.
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If blitzed to a fine crumb Shirley it will do the job not just as well but it will stick and coat the chicken too. You could also use rice flour or tapioca flour if available. Hope this helps 😊
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How many points per portion sp points looks so good
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Thank you Clare 😃 9 SP per portion
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