Chicken with a coconut crust and papaya salad

Total: 1 hr 20 min. | Active: 40 min.
Low Carb

Ingredients

for 4 person

Chicken
2 tbsp butter, melted
2 tbsp lime juice
garlic cloves, pressed
1 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp cayenne pepper
1 ½ tsp salt
chicken thighs, halved
1 parcel coconut pieces (approx. 80 g), chopped
Salad
2 tbsp lime juice
3 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp ground cane sugar
red chilli pepper, deseeded, finely chopped
papaya, quartered lengthwise, cut crosswise into slices approx. 1 cm thick
200 g Chinese cabbage, cut into strips
1 ½ tbsp coriander, finely chopped

How it's done

Chicken

Combine the butter with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt. Use to coat the chicken, pressing one side of each piece into the shredded coconut. Place the chicken on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Cook for approx. 40 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180°C.

Salad

To make the dressing, mix the lime juice in a bowl with all the other ingredients up to and including the chilli pepper. Add the papaya and leave to steep for approx. 15 mins. Carefully stir in the Chinese leaves and coriander. Serve the coconut-crusted chicken with the papaya salad.

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