My air fryer candy and bitter hen bowls function tremendous crispy hen, vibrant veggies, and a selfmade candy and bitter sauce! I like making this recipe on busy weeknights once I need one thing that tastes like takeout 🥰🥰. The candy and bitter sauce is so so yummy and solely requires a couple of components. Bonus, my kiddos love this recipe, too!
- Complete meal in a single bowl: Sauté peppers and onions whereas your hen is air frying, and serve it throughout a mattress of rice.
- Tremendous crispy hen: I’ve been creating air fryer recipes for years, and this one is one in every of my favorites! I like each alternative to make further crispy hen (with no deep fryer!), and this one severely slays. Toss the hen in my wonderful candy and bitter sauce, and ENJOY.
- Tastes like takeout: I loveeee candy and bitter hen, however don’t all the time love the ingredient checklist once I order it for takeout. My candy and bitter sauce for this recipe is of course sweetened with honey and orange marmalade, and spiced up only a bit with chili garlic sauce (sriracha additionally works!).
Featured Elements
- Hen: I like utilizing boneless skinless hen breasts for this recipe, however boneless skinless thighs may also work.
- Panko bread crumbs: Panko helps provides the breading for the hen its further CRUNCH when air fryed.
- Orange marmalade: My secret sauce ingredient! It provides this candy and bitter hen wonderful candy taste and thickens the sauce a bit, too.
- Cornstarch slurry: The slurry is essential to thickening up the sauce! Don’t need to use cornstarch? Simply omit it, however know your sauce will likely be a bit thinner.
- Chili garlic sauce: Distinction the candy marmalade and honey with a bit of chili garlic sauce (sriracha may also work!). I prefer to go a bit of lighter on the spice once I’m serving this to my kiddos, after which add a bit of further to mine earlier than serving 😋.
- Rice vinegar: Provides the proper of “bitter” taste to steadiness out the sweetness within the sauce.
Discover the checklist of full components within the recipe card under.
Find out how to Make Air Fryer Candy and Bitter Hen
- Put together the sauce: Add all of the components for the sauce right into a small saucepan and simmer. Make the cornstarch slurry in a separate bowl after which add it to the simmering sauce to thicken it up
- Sauté the veggies: Add your chopped veggies to a skillet with sesame oil, and prepare dinner for 5-7 minutes.
- Put together the hen: Dredge the hen via flour, then egg wash, after which panko. This order of operations will assist the breading stick further properly to the hen (which yields a brilliant crispy hen after its air fried!).
- Air fry the hen: Make sure that the hen chunks aren’t touching and air fry to crispy perfection.
- Toss the hen within the candy and bitter sauce.
- Assemble into bowls, and ENJOY!
Discover the complete recipe directions within the recipe card under.
Serving Options
My prompt pot white rice recipe is a go-to! It makes good rice each single time. Merely make a batch of rice within the prompt pot when you’re making ready the remainder of these bowls. Straightforward peasy.
Storage Directions
Retailer this air fryer candy and bitter hen in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. I prefer to heat my hen and veggies again up within the air fryer as a result of it crisps up leftovers so properly 🙌🏻. The microwave additionally works!
Extra Straightforward Air-Fryer Recipes
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Start by making ready the candy and bitter sauce. Add the honey, ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce, orange marmalade, and chili garlic sauce to a saucepan. Whisk to mix. Convey the combination to a delicate boil over medium/excessive warmth. Flip the warmth to low and simmer.
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In a separate bowl make the cornstarch slurry, whisk collectively the cornstarch and heat water. When the cornstarch dissolves, pour the combination into the saucepan. Whisk the slurry into the candy and bitter sauce. It ought to start to thicken fairly shortly. Take away from warmth and put aside.
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Put together the veggies by heating the sesame oil in a big skillet over medium/excessive warmth. Add the onion and peppers to the oil and season with salt. Saute for 5-7 minutes or till they attain the specified texture. Cowl and take away from warmth.
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Subsequent, put together the hen. In three separate bowls, add the flour to at least one, whisked eggs to the second, and panko bread crumbs and salt to the third bowl.
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Dredge a chunk of hen via the flour, then egg, after which the panko. Make sure it’s totally coated. Put aside and repeat till all of the hen has been coated.
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Switch the hen to the air fryer and spray with avocado oil. Make sure the hen items will not be overcrowded. Cook dinner at 400º for 5-8 minutes (is determined by what kind of air fryer you’re utilizing) or till the hen is golden brown and crispy. Chances are you’ll must prepare dinner the hen in batches. We’re searching for an inner temperature of 165ºF.
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Switch the cooked hen to a big bowl and toss with the sauce till coated. Serve the hen and peppers over rice or on their very own.
- We used orange marmalade, however you may exchange that with any kind of jam. Notice that when you use a distinct fruit, it would change the flavour of the sauce.
- Possibility to switch the orange marmalade with orange juice. Notice that you could be want so as to add a bit extra cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
Energy: 449 kcal, Carbohydrates: 63 g, Protein: 32 g, Fats: 8 g, Fiber: 2 g, Sugar: 35 g
Diet info is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.
Pictures: pictures taken on this publish are by Erin from The Wood Skillet.
