Try this Sweet Chilli Lime Chicken for dinner. Takes just 15 minutes
I stepped back after my handy work and looked at him from a couple of steps away. If I could run believe me I would have. My partner and I had been travelling around South America for six months and we needed a hair cut. I just have no idea why he believed me when I said I could cut hair……..how hard could it be? Famous last words, it was very hard. He looked like a one of the Beatles only they were fashionable in the 60’s. I covered his protests by saying that he would blend in with the rest of the Ecuadorian’s, especially if he wore a hat.
Quick chilli lime chicken
I’ve gone back to cutting hair again lately but only on myself. Not style cutting or anything like that, just a little trim between cuts. My hair cut is very short in quite a messy style and it’s only parts of it that become overgrown and unruly, like, weedy bits, so I have taken to giving it a bit of a trim between cuts.
A friend commented the other day that I had had a cut and even went to the extreme of telling me it looked nice. Ha, I said , it’s a selfie. She looked surprised . I confided that in the last 3 times I had had my hair cut I had given it a bit of a trim between salon visits. I justified myself by stating I must have done a good job or my hairdresser would have said something. She laughed till I told her to stop, what was the joke?. And it was funny she was right. My hairdresser may not have said anything not even suspecting that I may have cut my own hair ( because who does that anyway- unless they are traveling around South America?). Her reasoning was solid.. he may not have said anything because he may have been thinking …
“I must have been on crack last time I cut Tania’s hair. It is a terrible mess”.
There is no way that he can say anything to me. Imagine:
“Tania , your hair is short and long and funny in all the wrong places. I must have been very hungover or having a bad hair day(!) last time I cut your hair”.
THAT is not going to happen. So it seems that I have and will get away with a little tweaking. Unless that is, I get a bit too confident. I have learned a valuable lesson… my former partner had a great ability to face the world with a really dick haircut.
Sweet chilli lime chicken
This 15 minute chicken dish IS easy. There’s only a small amount of cheating involved and that’s the use of sweet chilli sauce . Make it in the fry pan and that’s that. Serve it with rice or quinoa or rissoni or just as it is.
One Pot Sweet Chilli Lime Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken thigh fillets sliced and trimmed
- 2 whole limes zested and juiced
- 60 ml sweet chilli sauce Thai style 1/4 cup
- 60 ml buttermilk 1/4 cup
- 2 Tablespoons ginger grated
- 2 cloves garlic
- 200 gm sugar snap peas 1 cup
- 100 gm red capsicum sliced into fingers
- 150 gm onion sliced very thinly
- 60 ml oil 3 tablespoons
- 60 ml lime or lemon juice (3 Tablespoons approx 2 limes or 1/2 lemon)
- 1/2 bunch coriander chopped
- 80 ml water or stock, 4 tablespoons
Instructions
- Put the trimmed whole chicken thighs into a bowl with the buttermilk, lime zest and juice and 1 clove of crushed garlic and leave for 10 minutes ( or as long as you can ) while you cut the vegetables
- Heat a non stick frypan to very hot. Add 2 Tablespoons of oil and add the chicken shaking off any excess liquid and reserving, adding a piece at a time letting the pan come back to temperature. Sear them on both sides till nicely browned.
- Once cooked put them onto a plate to sit for a minute. Don't wash the pan just drain off any extra fat. Add more oil and the onion, ginger, garlic and stir till softening but not colouring. Add the chicken back to the pan. Add the capsicum and sugar snap peas and the remaining marinade, sweet chilli extra lemon ( or lime) and 2 table spoons of water or stock.
- Bring the pan back to a simmer and add the lid, letting it cook for a couple of minutes. Stir well and make sure the sauce is simmering and the chicken is cooked through.Add the chopped coriander and taste for seasoning. If more salt is needed sprinkle with salt or fish sauce
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I used to cut my own hair too when I was travelling a lot. There are some terrible fringes in the photos looking back! I still colour my own hair and give it a trim when I’m broke but I stay away from fringes … shudder.
Lol yes the self cutting hair fringe is not a good look
G’day and YUM! I Love one pot recipes! I could go for some of this right now! GREAT photo! Cheers! Joanne
Your dishes always look soooo good – I usually let out a little moan when the photo loads. Your hair always looks good too, but I’m going to take a closer look from now on.. 🙂
I love your spiky hair Tania- it’s got attitude! I hack at my top layers when they bug me too much, even though I know it’s going to be a mistake 🙂
Great recipe, all the flavours we love most, and one dish cooking is even better indeed! Xox
Lol, such a funny story Tania. I’ve only cut my husband’s hair but it was only after he gave himself a butchering — not that I helped much. Your chicken sounds fantastic and I love on pot dishes!
This meal looks so tasty, and 1 pot so hardly any washing up! That is a win.
I cut everyone’s hair in our house, including hubby. I have no idea why they trust me?? I didn’t have a clue what I was doing when I started :0
I’d love to cut my own hair – hair dressers are so expensive and I never seem to make it regularly! – but sadly mine is long and I’m pretty sure I’d do something terribly obvious and bad 😛 On the plus side, this dish looks like a no fail and delicious one pot option!
Oh, I love lime and chicken. This sounds delicious.
lol I’ve never been game enough to cut my own hair so kudos to you, I say! And I love the look of this one pot dish – done in a snip I reckon! Haha
Ha! I don’t have the courage to cut my own hair OR the.boy’s hair…so I am pretty impressed!
This big bowl of food is so beautiful! You can almost tell how tasty it is just by looking at it.
I once cut hubby’s hair and it looked so bad we had to get it fixed immediately! I’m too scared to even trim my fringe. This looks like a wonderful dish T 😀
I once cut my husband’s hair. It was a disaster and I realised I have no right to hold a pair of scissors. I love the look of your chicken dish. To add salt, could you also use soy sauce? I often substitute fish sauce with soy sauce xx
Ha thats well put Charlie, Yes you can add soy sauce
OMG I have been there! Back when my ex and I were in university and poor as could be I told him I could cut his hair. He protested and I said, “how hard can it be?”
I cut and I cut and I cut, measuring first one side and then the other and then trimming the longer side and then doing the other side because I’d cut too much.
Before I knew it was nearly bald. He never ever let me touch his hair again. I laugh every time I think of it.
He would have loved your chicken dish though. If I still spoke to him I would send the recipe, alas, I will make it for myself.
I LOVED this post!
Thanks, figured out what I’m cooking for dinner tonight xx
Ha, I cut my hubby’s hair once…. Never again! I love that you trim yours between visits. 🙂
Oh this made me laugh. 🙂 I had to do my own hair cutting for a while cuz I was so broke. By the time I got to a real hairdresser, they were beyond horrified, especially when they learned I’d done the butchering myself! 🙂 This dish looks amazingly delicious. 🙂