Thai spicy chicken goujons with sweet chilli sauce

Thai Chicken Goujons with Sweet Chilli Sauce Recipe

20 Minutes
Serves: 2

Crispy Thai chicken goujons, chicken strips coated in a mixture of Thai warm spices of black pepper corns, fennel seeds, cloves, caraway seeds and star anise. lightly fried and served with a sweet chilli sauce

Recipe Ingreds

Chicken

  • 2 fillet chicken breasts
  • 1 . sunflower oil (for frying)
  • 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

Coating

  • 2 tsp black pepper corns
  • 2 tsp caraway seeds
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 5 whole cloves
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 150 grams plain flour
  • salt (to taste)
  • 2 whole star anise
  • 2 whole egg

Recipe with pictures Steps

Step 1

  • heat a frying pan
  • Dry fry the peppercorns
  • remove the seeds from the star anise
  • place in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle with the peppercorns, caraway seeds, cloves and fennel seeds
  • grind the spices
  • add the salt and cinnamon to the spices

Step 2

  • put the flour and 1/4 of the spice mix onto a plate
  • mix the ingredients
  • break the egg(s) into the shallow bowl and beat with a fork
  • place the remaining spice mix on a plate

Step 3

  • organise the dipping ingredients into a row with the spice mix first, then the egg and finally the flour
  • slice the chicken fillets into small strips or goujons
  • take the chicken strips or goujons and dip into the spice mix, then the egg and finally the flour
  • repeat for each chicken strip.

Step 4

  • heat about 21/2 cms of frying oil in a frying pan
  • Drop a breadcrumb into the oil to check its hot enough it should fizzle
  • cook the chicken in batches, of 3 to 4 at a time
  • cook till golden brown
  • place on kitchen paper
  • keep warm

Step 5

  • place the chicken and dip on a serving plate
  • serve immediately

Recipe Utensils

  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 fish slice
  • 2 frying pan
  • 1 kitchen paper
  • 1 large knife
  • 1 mortar and pestle
  • 2 plate
  • 1 shallow bowl

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How to make spicy Thai chicken goujons with sweet chilli dip

These unusual homemade chicken goujons are coated in a delicious Thai inspired spice mix and flour so are breadcrumb free. The Thai spice mix is black peppercorns, caraway seeds, clove, fennel seeds, star anise and cinnamon, ground together to a fine powder.  These delicious chicken goujons are lightly fried and served with a simple chilli sauce.

Thai spicy goujons for your dinner party starter

These spicy goujons make the perfect chicken starter for a Thai themed dinner party serve the goujons with a simple chilli sauce of your choice. If your family and friends love seriously hot food than match these goujons with a seriously spicy chilli sauce

What makes our spicy goujons the best

These spicy goujons are definitely different to other goujons as the coating is made entirely of ground spices and flour and are free from any breadcrumbs. We use plain flour but if you are looking for gluten free goujons use chickpea flour instead of regular flour. 

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