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Paleo Sweet Fire Chicken

September 8, 2014 by vanessa

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Sweet Fire Chicken | Plaid and Paleo Any Panda Express fans out there? I had my first encounter with Panda Express shortly after moving to Los Angeles. This was far before the word Paleo ever filtered through my ears. I fell hard for Panda Express. Do you want to add another entree for one dollar? Ok! How about a spring roll? Ok! I would load up on lo mien, fried rice, orange chicken, kung pow chicken and sweet fire chicken. Sounds healthy. Totally kidding. It is a little gross looking back but at the time eating healthy was the furthest thing from my mind.

Fast forward four years, and I have been craving my old Panda Express favorites. I really wanted some sweet fire chicken and fried rice. I have an another cauliflower fried rice recipe on my blog but I spruced it up a bit! For the chicken I knew I needed a legit sweet chili sauce to start. I’ve made Steph from Stupid Easy Paleo’s sweet chili sauce a couple times and love it! I used her recipe as a jumping off point then doctored it up to make it more like my old favorite. This dish turned out so good! I can already see it becoming a go-to dinner for me.

Sweet Fire Chicken | Plaid and Paleo

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Paleo Sweet Fire Chicken

Serves 2-3

Ingredients

    Sweet Chili Sauce
  • 5 tbls white wine vinegar
  • 3 tbls honey
  • 1-2 tsp chili garlic sauce, depending on your heat preference*
  • 1 tsp garlic, grated
  • 2 tsp ginger, grated
  • 2 tsp arrowroot powder
  • Chicken
  • 1 tsp ghee
  • 1 lb chicken breast, cut into bite sized pieces
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1 large red bell pepper, cored and cut into 1-in pieces
  • 12 oz can pineapple chunks, drained
  • Fried “rice”
  • 1 head of cauliflower
  • 3 tsp ghee, divided
  • 1/2 cup white onion, diced
  • 5 tbls coconut aminos
  • 2 tsp sesame seed oil
  • 1 tsp ginger, grated
  • 2 eggs, beaten

Directions

    For the sweet chili sauce
  1. Mix all ingredients in a small sauce pot over medium heat. Bring to a boil and whisk until all ingredients are melted and sauce starts to thicken, about 2 minutes. Set aside.
  2. For the chicken
  3. Melt ghee in large skillet and add chicken, salt and pepper.
  4. Stirring occasionally, cook for 10 minutes until all pieces of chicken are cooked through.
  5. Add in bell pepper and pineapple and cook for about 5 minutes until bell pepper is slightly soften.
  6. Pour in sweet chili sauce and toss to coat all ingredients.
  7. Bring sauce to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes.
  8. For the fried “rice”
  9. Remove the cauliflower stem and cut into chunks that will fit in your blender or food processor.
  10. Pulse a couple times until the cauliflower reaches a “rice” like consistency.
  11. Heat large skillet over medium-high heat and melt 1 teaspoon ghee.
  12. Cook onions until transparent.
  13. Add cauliflower, coconut aminos, sesame oil and ginger.
  14. Stir until cauliflower is evenly coated and cook for 5 minutes.
  15. Push cauliflower mixture to one side of the pan. Add eggs in clean space and scramble with wooden spoon.
  16. Once eggs are cooked, mix in with other ingredients.
  17. Add in remaining 2 teaspoons of ghee and stir to fry the rice for 5 minutes.

Notes

*If you don't have chili garlic sauce on hand, you can use 1/2 red jalapeno finely diced plus an additional 1/2 tsp minced garlic!

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Enjoy!
x vanessa
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  1. Kiersten says

    September 8, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    My husband is still a HUGE panda express fan. Maybe this would help him move past his unhealthy addiction 🙂

    • vanessa says

      September 13, 2014 at 5:08 pm

      It definitely eases the separation anxiety just a little! 🙂

  2. Rebecca says

    September 8, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    I made this for dinner tonight. It was so yummy. We are already planning to have again soon. I can’t wait to eat the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

    • vanessa says

      September 11, 2014 at 9:54 am

      I’m so happy you liked it!!

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