Sweet Chilli Chicken with McCain Sweet Potato Fries Recipe

I was very excited when Family favourites McCain asked my family to take part in their “Back to Normal” project. With Christmas and half term over it is definitely time to start eating healthier and getting back to our normal routine.

I must say I have got a little boring with our family meals and I was excited to try out a new recipe created with Holly Bell from “Recipes from a Normal Mum”.

sweet chilli chicken With McCain sweet potato fries - Ingrediants

From the recipes, I chose to recreate Garlic, lemon & sweet chilli chicken with McCain sweet potato fries as we are huge chicken and sweet potato fans here, so the combination of the two was sure to be perfect, well depending on my cooking abilities that is!

To help us prepare this meal, we were sent a selection of really cool goodies from McCain to help us prepare this meal.

sweet chilli chicken With McCain sweet potato fries - Cooking items

Garlic, lemon & sweet chilli chicken with McCain sweet potato fries.

Ingredients:

4 skinless chicken breasts (defrosted if frozen)
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 lemon
100mls sweet chilli sauce
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
500g
McCain Sweet Potato Fries
625g freshly frozen mini corn cobs

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan 210°C/gas mark 7.
Lay the chicken breasts on a large piece of greaseproof paper, fold it over to cover them and then bash with a rolling pin until about 1cm thin. Discard
Discard the paper and place the chicken breasts into a freezer bag then wash your hands
Add the crushed garlic, zest and juice of the lemon, sweet chilli sauce, oil and black pepper. Close the bag, give it a bit of a jig and a squish’ to distribute the marinade evenly and place in the fridge for 10 minutes whilst the oven Preheats.
Spread the McCain Sweet Potato Fries evenly in a single layer onto a baking tray and pop onto the top shelf of the oven. Bake for 17 – 20 minutes, turning twice until crisp and light golden.
Place a fresh piece of baking paper onto a baking tray; place the marinated breasts onto the tray with a little space between each one. Discard any leftover dressing left in the bag.
Once the fries have been baking for about 5 minutes place the tray of chicken on the middle shelf of the oven. Bake for 10 – 15 minutes until cooked through.
In the meantime cook the corn by either microwaving for 5 minutes (800W) on full power in a large dish covered with clingfilm and pierced several times or boiling for 12 minutes on the hob. Whichever method you prefer, drain before serving.
Assemble the chicken, fries and corn onto plates and tuck in!

I found this recipe much easier to master than I ever expected, in fact preparing the Garlic, lemon & sweet chilli chicken was so simple and was very contained to the one bag which saved on the washing up.

Once the Chicken was cooking in the oven all that was left to do was cook the frozen McCain Sweet potato Fries and pop the frozen sweetcorn in the microwave, simple!

Here are the final results, a meal that not only looked fantastic but smelled delicious too. This was a huge hit at the dinner table, especially with my eldest son who is training to be a personal trainer as was very impressed with the protein-packed meal.

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