Mexican Popcorn Chicken & Garlic Rice
with Charred Corn-Tomato Salsa & Smokey Aioli
Tonight’s chicken is really ‘popping off’ (please forgive the pun). A touch of heat and fun Mexican-inspired flavours come together to create chicken that will be popping with flavour (sorry we couldn’t help it). Add some fragrant garlic rice and a smokey sweetcorn and tomato salsa, and it’s bound to be a pop-ular dish (okay we’re done now).
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Ingredients
2 clove
garlic
1 packet
basmati rice
1
tomato
1 packet
baby leaves
1 tin
sweetcorn
1 packet
chicken thigh
1 sachet
Mexican Fiesta spice blend
1 packet
cornflour
(May be present Milk, Gluten, Peanut, Soy, Sesame, Almond, Cashew, Hazelnut, Macadamia, Pecan, Pistachio, Walnut, Pine Nut, Brazil Nut. )
1 packet
Smokey Aioli
(Contains Egg, Soy; )
1 packet
coriander
Not included in your delivery
olive oil
20 g
butter
(Contains Milk; )
1.5 cup
water
1 tbs
plain flour
(Contains Gluten; )
drizzle
white wine vinegar
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Finely chop garlic. • In a medium saucepan, heat the butter with a dash of olive oil over medium heat. Cook garlic until fragrant, 1-2 minutes. • Add basmati rice, the water and a generous pinch of salt, stir, then bring to the boil. • Reduce heat to low and cover with a lid. • Cook for 10 minutes, then remove from heat and keep covered until rice is tender and water is absorbed, 10 minutes.
TIP: The rice will finish cooking in its own steam so donʼt peek!
• Meanwhile, roughly chop tomato and baby leaves. Drain sweetcorn. • Cut chicken thigh into 2cm chunks.
• Heat a large frying pan over high heat. Cook sweetcorn until lightly browned, 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl. • SPICY! The spice blend is hot! Add less if you're sensitive to heat. Meanwhile, combine Mexican Fiesta spice blend, a pinch of salt and a drizzle of olive oil in a second medium bowl. Add chicken and toss to coat. Set aside.
TIP: Cover the pan with a lid if the corn kernels are “popping” out.
• Add cornflour and the plain flour to the chicken and toss to coat. • Return frying pan to high heat with enough olive oil to coat the base of the pan. • When oil is hot, dust off any excess flour from chicken, then cook, tossing occasionally, until browned and cooked through, 5-6 minutes. • Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
TIP: Chicken is cooked through when itʼs no longer pink inside.
• Meanwhile, to the bowl of charred corn, add tomato, baby leaves and a drizzle of white wine vinegar and olive oil. • Season to taste and toss to combine.
• Divide garlic rice and charred corn-tomato salsa between bowls. • Top with Mexican popcorn chicken and dollop of smokey aioli. • Tear over coriander to serve. Enjoy!