This Thai Garlic Chicken with Chilli is quick and easy to make and is sweet, salty and spicy all in one. You can have it on the table in 20 minutes and tastes great with your favourite rice and greens for the ultimate balanced clean eating dinner.
Easy 20 minutes spicy Thai Garlic Chicken is perfect meal for busy weeknights because:
- Its quick and easy
- It is bursting with Thai flavours
- It’s made with Pantry staples
- You can adjust the spiciness up or down to suit
- It makes great leftovers for lunch the next day
- You can dress it up with whatever veges you have on hand
How To Make This Dish Low Carb
If you’re using white or brown rice, this dish probably won’t be low carb, but you can make it low carb by making a few simple swaps. Here’s how:
Swap regular rice for Cauliflower Rice: remove all the green bits from the cauliflower and use a box grater to grate it into “rice” or cut into small pieces and use the grater attachment with your food processer. Then, heat a large skillet over medium heat with 1 tablespoon of oil or butter, season with salt and pepper and cook for a minute or two.
Swap regular rice for Broccoli Rice: chop broccoli into pieces and finely dice with a sharp knife, alternatively use your blender to turn it into “rice”. Then, heat a large skillet over medium heat with 1 tablespoon of oil or butter, season with salt and pepper and cook for a minute or two.
Swap regular rice for zucchini noodles: To make zucchini noodles at home, you’ll need a spiralizer, and a large zucchini (or you can purchase them from the supermarket already spiralized). I like to cook my zucchini noodles in a pot of hot (not boiling) water seasoned with salt and pepper for 2 mins, then drained. Or try these Spicy Peanut Butter Noodles for a quick and tasty side.
More Thai Recipes:
- 20 minute Thai Pineapple Chicken Curry
- Quick Coconut Lime Salmon with Noodles
- Simple Thai Chicken Meatballs with Peanut Sauce
- Asian Chicken Tenders with Lemon Dipping Sauce
- Healthy Sweet and Sour Chicken
- 15 minute Chinese Garlic Chicken
Tips for Making Thai Garlic Chicken with Chilli
- Sambal Olek: this is a very spicy chilli paste available from the Asian aisle of most supermarkets. You can substitute the same quantity of chilli paste, or a finely diced fresh chilli
- Honey substitute: instead of honey you could use I tablespoon of your favourite granulated sweetener that measures like sugar such as Stevia or Monkfruit.
- Lemongrass: I buy lemongrass paste from the fruit and vege section of Woolworths supermarkets. I have also seen lemongrass paste available on Amazon US. If you can’t get your hands on it, substitute 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon zest.
- Garlic: for convenience you could use crushed garlic in a jar
- Lime Juice: Fresh lime juice is best, but the lime juice in a squeeze bottle is Ok too.
Thai Garlic Chicken Serving Suggestions
- Greens: Steamed Broccoli, green beans, or bok choi on the side or baby spinach stirred through as part of the cooking process
- Carbs: Jasmine rice or Brown rice (made at home or store bought microwave packets), vermicelli noodles, egg noodles, soba noodles, udon noodles
- Garnishes: black or white sesame seeds, fresh diced chilli, fresh diced spring onions, fried shallots (the ones you buy from the Asian aisle of the supermarket)
- Extras: wedge of lemon or lime, sprinkling of fresh coriander
Recipe Variations
Whilst this recipe works beautifully with ground chicken, you also might to try chicken strips or diced chicken chunks (2cm x 2cm). To make it even leaner, you could use ground or diced turkey. Or, if you love red meat, I love making this dish with beef strips, udon noodles and lots of spinach stirred through at the end so its just wilted.
This recipe is quick, easy and versatile. Not to mention it's high protein, healthy and ideal to make if your recovering from an over-indulgent weekend!
Thai Garlic Chicken with Chilli
You can have it on the table in 20 minutes and tastes great with your favourite rice and greens for the ultimate balanced clean eating dinner.
Ingredients
- 500 grams Ground Chicken or Chicken Mince
- 6 tablespoons Crushed garlic
- ¼ cup tablespoons Soy Sauce
- 2 tablespoons Raw honey
- 2 tablespoons Finely grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons Chilli Paste or Sambal Olek
- 2 teaspoons Lemongrass paste or finely chopped lemongrass
- 2 teaspoons fish Sauce
- 2 tablespoons Lime Juice
- 1 tablespoon Coconut Oil
To Serve
- 1 ½ cups Jasmine rice
- Lime wedges
- Black and white sesame seeds
- Finely diced chilli
- Steamed broccoli
Instructions
- Cook rice according to packet instructions
- In a medium bowl, make the garlic sauce mix, add the garlic, ginger, soy, honey, chilli/sambel olek, lemongrass, fish sauce and lime juice. Whisk to combine and set aside.
- Heat a pan on medium high, and add the coconut oil. Once it is hot, add the chicken and brown. Break up any clumps with a spatula.
- Once the chicken is cooked reduce heat to low, pour over the garlic sauce mix and stir through. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes until heated though.
- Cook broccoli in microwave for a couple of minutes in a little water.
- Serve garlic chicken with Jasmine rice, making sure to spoon over some leftover garlic sauce from the pan. Add some lime wedges, toasted sesame seeds, thinly sliced spring onions and broccoli.
Notes
- Meat Substitutions: in place of the ground chicken/chicken mince you could use ground turkey. You could also use diced chicken breast.
- Sambel Olek: this is a very spicy chilli paste available from the Asian aisle of most supermarkets. You can substitute the same quantity of chilli paste, or a finely diced fresh chilli
- Honey substitute: instead of honey you could use I tablespoon of your favourite granulated sweetener that measures like sugar such as Stevia or Monkfruit.
- Lemongrass: I buy lemongrass paste from the fruit and vege section of Woolworths supermarkets. I have also seen lemongrass paste available on Amazon US. If you can’t get your hands on it, substitute 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon zest.
- Garlic: for convenience you could use crushed garlic in a jar
- Lime Juice: Fresh lime juice is best, but the lime juice in a squeeze bottle is Ok too.
- To Serve: Jasmine Rice, Brown Rice, Quinoa, Cauliflour rice, or noodles.
- Nutrition information includes the rice, sesame seeds, chilli and broccoli
Nutrition
Note: Sugars contained in this recipe are from naturally occurring sugars in fruits, vegetables or other natural sweeteners.
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