Thai chicken cakes with sweet chilli sauce
A Thai dinner. Ready in about 33 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 23 minPrep (about)
- 10 minCook (about)
- 33 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 2 chicken breasts
Fresh & other
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 ginger
- 1 onion
- ¼ cup cilantro
- 1 green chile Shopping tip: Jalapeño for mild (seeds out); serrano for hot.
- To serve lime
- Chopped green onion Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
- Chopped red chile Shopping tip: Fresno or red jalapeño for mild (seeds out); Thai bird's eye for hot.
Sauces & oils
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- To serve sweet chile sauce
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Toss the chilli, coriander, onion, ginger, garlic and chicken into a food processor.
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Season well.
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Blitz till your chicken is finely ground and everything is fully mixed.
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Use your hands to shape six little cakes.
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Heat the oil in a frying pan.
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Fry your cakes over a medium heat for around 6-8 mins.
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Turn when.
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Serve hot, with red chilli, shredded spring onion, coriander, lime wedges and sweet chilli sauce.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.