This Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken is a light, low calorie and clean eating dinner that is on the table in 20 minutes. It’s fragrant, tender and with just the right amount of spice to wake up your tastebuds. It’s an easy weeknight dinner that you can throw together without too much effort – chicken from freezer + spices from pantry + basically whatever veges you have in the fridge.

Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken Is An Easy No Fuss Clean Eating Dinner

Name: Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 people
Ingredients: 2 chicken fillets (300 grams/11 ounces); ½ teaspoon Chilli Flakes (Note 1); 1 teaspoon Onion Salt; 1 teaspoon Garlic Salt; ½ teaspoon Sea Salt; 1 teaspoon Paprika; 1 teaspoon Oregano; 1 teaspoon Thyme; 2 tablespoons Wholemeal Breadcrumbs; 6 medium Button mushrooms (cut into chunks); 1 Cup Cherry Tomatoes (halved); Handful of baby spinach leaves; 1 clove of Garlic (crushed); 1 teaspoon Butter

It’s clean eating, no fuss, grown up food that won’t weigh you down, or leave you feeling hungry 20 minutes after eating it.

Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken is totally one of those healthy meals you need to have when you’ve had a bender and you need to get back on the healthy eating wagon. Know what I mean? Particularly after Christmas as we spring into January and the month for cleaning out the system, and undoing all the holiday indulgence and over eating.

Yep. This dish is the one to help you get back on that wagon.

Not least of all because it contains some awesome spices that work really well together.

Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken Spice Collage

Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken Spice Mix

Some of my favourite spices are in this mix– onion salt, garlic salt and especially paprika. I have all the paprika in my spice cupboard, and I’m especially fond of smoked paprika which I use frequently (like weekly) and is the hero ingredient in my smoky paprika chicken recipe. You have to try it.

Its better than KFC, and 1000 times more healthier. It’s my go to when I want fried chicken without the fried part.

And this Healthy Salt and Chilli Chicken is like salt and pepper chicken or salt and pepper squid salad for that matter, only without the pepper and with chilli instead. It gives it a little more contrast and is a little bit more grown up.

Cooking Tips:

Although if you were preparing this dish for your family or maybe your significant other who isn’t that into spicy food, you could cut back on the chilli, or leave it out altogether.
For a twist you could replace the chilli with another thing, like, say parmesan or sesame seeds or a combination of both.
Be careful not to over salt the spice mix with additional salt – especially as you have the onion and garlic salt which add heaps of flavour.

Other Ways With Chilli and Salt Spices

Here’s a thought. If you really like this chilli and salt spice combo, you could try it with pork or steak. I think that’s my next stop. And maybe even fish. That’s the cool thing about spices that I’m discovering. The versatility. You only need to know a few good ones, and you can use them in heaps of ways to create different dishes. Now that’s my kind of cooking!

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