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At the beginning of this year I did a post where people could recommend me recipes and one of the bloggers who recommended me a recipe was Melanie and she recommended a sriracha chicken recipe. So I gave it a try and tweaked the recipe to my tastes and liked it. So today I am going to share the recipe with you. It’s a nice mixture of flavours. It’s sweet, a bit salty and has a bit of a bite due to the sambal, but not too spicy (I can’t stand spicy food). I didn’t use sriracha sauce, but chili sauce instead and it has no chicken but veggies instead, so I named it veggies in chili sauce instead. It’s quite simple and doesn’t take long to prepare. I usually serve it with rice.
This recipe is losely based on Creme de la Crumb her honey sriracha chicken recipe.
Ingredients
- Red Bell Pepper – 2
- Onion – 1
- Vega Meat or Chicken (optional)
- Water – 1 1/2 cup
- Chili Sauce – 2-3 tablespoons
- Soy Sauce – 5 tablespoons
- Sambal – 1 teaspoon
- Cornstarch – 3-4 teaspoons
This recipe feed about 2-3 people. I usually serve it with rice.
Method
- Cut the onion and red bell pepper in small pieces. In a wok bake the onion until translucent.
- Add the red bell pepper and bake for about 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl combine the ingredients for the sauce, chili sauce, soy sauce and sambal and combine well. Add the 1 1/2 cup water and the sauce mixture to the wok and keep baking.
- If serving with rice start cooking the rice now for 10 minutes.
- In the meantime add the vega meat to the wok and continue baking.
- Mix the cornstarch with a bit of water and add it to the wok. Cook for a few minutes on high until the sauce is the desired consistency.
- Drain the rice and serve the veggies with chili sauce with rice. Enjoy!
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Variation Tips
- Honey Sriracha Sauce. Like in creme de la crumb her recipe you can use sriracha sauce instead of chili sauce and add 1/4 cup sugar and 2-3 tablespoons honey to the sauce as well.
- Vary with veggies. You can serve this dish with almost any veggies you want or skip the veggies all together and eat only chicken, that’s possible too. I think most other veggies would work well with this sauce, just make sure to cook some of the veggies beforehand if they have to cook longer than 15-20 minutes.
Yum! I don’t know if my grocery store has Quorn. I know they have morning star but it’s primarily burgers and chick’n sandwhiches. Hopefully they have this product because I’d love to make this. Do you think I could use extra firm tofu instead if I can’t find it?
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Here they sell Quorn in most supermarkets and I like it, so I usually use it in dishes like this. I think a similar product or extra firm tofu would work great as well.
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oh man does that look so delicious!!! I am bookmarking this recipe right NOW!!! Gotta try it out.
Thanks! I hope you’ll give it a try! It’s really good 🙂
This looks really good 🙂 I’m always looking for new sauces to try with veggie stirfry, so will have to give this a go!
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Me too, so I was happy to find this sauce. Let me know if you give it a try!
Oh very nice. Looks like a dish I might like.
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Let me know if you liked it if you give it a try!
That’s great you tried a new recipe (tweaking it for your own enjoyment) and found it yummy. It looks really good, and relatively easy to make. haha I really need to try and cook more!
-lauren
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I tweak most recipes a bit, although some take a few tries before they turn out good, this one was a success on the first try. It’s relatively easy to make too. I hope you’ll give it a try 🙂
It’s a good thing I just ate dinner or I’d be running to the store for a big snack. Yum!
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I always go grocery shopping after I’ve eaten for that reason, else I come back with way more food then I need. I am making this recipe again this week, it’s a good one!