Spiced Ginger Lime Chicken Tenders with Coconut Rice –

These easy and scrumptious ginger lime rooster tenders are exploding with taste! Paired with the coconut rice and you’ve got an ideal meal.

You possibly can think about this submit a two-for-one deal! Two recipes, one superb meal.

The coconut rice soaks up all of the outrageous flavors of the straightforward rooster tenders. It’s a wonderful mixture.

Why Hen Tenders?

Whereas you need to use any minimize of rooster on this recipe (rooster thighs or rooster breasts), I like rooster tenders.

They prepare dinner ultra-fast. And identical to their identify implies, they’re tender and so juicy.

Not like sturdier rooster thighs that may marinade for longer durations of time, the rooster tenders solely want just a few hours of marinading time.

In the event that they sit within the marinade too lengthy, they’ll develop a form of mushy texture.

Prepare dinner the Hen Tenders

I want grilling the rooster, however you may additionally use an air fryer or the broil setting within the oven.

They prepare dinner shortly! Just some minutes on both sides and so they’ll be executed.

As soon as they’re completed cooking, I pile them in a baking dish or a tray, tent with foil, and allow them to hang around for a couple of minutes. The juices and marinade will accumulate within the backside of the dish, and it makes an incredible makeshift sauce to drizzle over the rooster and rice when serving.

{See the word within the recipe about making further marinade if you’d like issues further saucy.}

Make Coconut Rice

This straightforward coconut rice is a dream. If you happen to’ve by no means had coconut rice, you’re in for a deal with. Coconut rice is solely rice that’s cooked in water PLUS canned coconut milk.

It’s buttery, salty, and simply very calmly candy, and it pairs completely with Asian- or Indian-style dishes.

The Key to Good Coconut Rice

Coconut rice can simply end up gummy and gloopy – however one easy step helps forestall that:

Rinsing the rice.

I by no means rinse rice after I make it the “day by day means” (although consultants on-line say I ought to 😬 ). However I at all times rinse if I’m making coconut rice; it makes an enormous distinction.

Rinsing white rice removes the starch which permits the rice to separate into items whereas cooking vs clumping collectively.

I don’t spend a variety of time on this step. I rinse shortly in a colander, agitating the rice with my fingers and form of tossing it round. I don’t look forward to the water to essentially run clear, I simply rinse for an excellent stable minute and name it a day. Drain it properly, and it’s able to prepare dinner.

Stand Alone Recipes

Each the spiced ginger lime rooster tenders recipe and the coconut rice recipe can stand alone.

They don’t have to be made collectively for a similar meal. Every is scrumptious to face on it’s personal (and the coconut rice is a good looking back-pocket recipe to make use of for quite a lot of meals).

However collectively, the flavorful rooster and coconut rice make a stellar combo. Throw in vivid 5-minute skillet broccoli, and also you principally have the meal of my goals.

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Spiced Ginger Lime Hen Tenders with Coconut Rice

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 3 hrs 30 minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 20 minutes

Whole Time: 3 hrs 50 minutes

Marinade + Hen:

• ⅓ cup low-sodium soy sauce (see word)
• ¼ cup packed mild or darkish brown sugar
• ¼ cup recent lime juice
• 2 tablespoons olive oil or toasted sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon grated recent ginger or ginger paste (see word)
• 4 cloves garlic, finely minced (see word)
• ½ teaspoon spices, like curry powder, garam masala, cumin, coriander (see word)
• Pinch purple pepper flakes or cayenne pepper (elective)
• 2-3 kilos rooster tenders

Coconut Rice:

• 2 cups jasmine rice
• 1 can (13.5 ounces) coconut milk
• ¾ cup water
• 2 teaspoons coarse, kosher salt (use about half for desk salt)

For the rooster:

• Whisk collectively all of the marinade elements till clean (see word beneath for further marinade/sauce). Place the rooster tenders in a shallow dish or ziploc bag and add the marinade so the rooster is generally lined, tossing a few times to cowl the rooster evenly.

• Cowl the dish/seal the bag and refrigerate for at the least 2 hours and as much as 8 hours.

• Preheat a grill to medium-high. (It’s also possible to use an air fryer or oven set to broil.) Take away the rooster tenders from the marinade and prepare dinner 2-4 minutes on both sides till cooked by (an immediate learn thermometer ought to register 165 levels F on the thickest a part of the rooster tender). Take away the rooster to a plate, cowl, and let relaxation for 5-10 minutes.

• Serve the rooster with the coconut rice (recipe beneath). Pour any gathered juices over the rooster earlier than serving.

For the coconut rice:

• Place the jasmine rice in a colander and rinse beneath cool water for 1-2 minutes, agitating and lifting the rice together with your fingers, till the water runs principally clear (don’t fret an excessive amount of about this, simply be certain that it will get an excellent rinse). Drain properly.

• Place the rinsed rice in a pot and add the coconut milk, 3/4 cup water, and salt. Convey the rice to an intensive simmer (needs to be simmering throughout your entire floor, not simply the perimeters).

• Give a fast stir to verify rice is not sticking to the underside. Cut back the warmth to low and prepare dinner for 18 minutes. DON’T REMOVE THE LID!

• Take away the pot from the warmth and let sit, lined, for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork or spoon and serve with the rooster tenders.

Soy Sauce: I solely preserve low-sodium soy sauce round so I haven’t tried this recipe with common sodium soy sauce. I’m guessing it would work wonderful – clearly it’ll have a bit extra salty kick to it.
Ginger: Recent ginger or ginger paste work greatest on this recipe (relatively than ginger powder). The frozen cubes of ginger (I’ve seen them at Dealer Joe’s) will in all probability work as properly, if thawed. Working with recent ginger: I purchase massive knobs of recent ginger, minimize them into 1/2- or 1-inch items and preserve them in a ziploc bag within the freezer. They are often grated into recipes, like this one, straight from the freezer (no have to peel).
Spices: this recipe could be very adaptable to spices you may need available. You want 1/2 teaspoon TOTAL spices (not 1/2 teaspoon of all of the spice choices). It’s scrumptious with curry powder, garam masala, cumin, coriander, or a mixture. Clearly the flavour will change relying on what spices are used; ensure you like the flavour profile of the spices/blends you’re utilizing.
Further Sauce: if you’d like further sauce to drizzle over the rooster and rice, 1 1/2 or double the marinade elements and reserve a few of the marinade earlier than pouring the remaining over the rooster. Simmer the reserved marinade in a small pan on the stovetop for a number of minutes earlier than serving (if you’d like the sauce thicker, stir 1 tablespoon cornstarch to the marinade earlier than simmering). 
Coconut Milk: I’ve made the rice with each full fats coconut milk and lightweight coconut milk. Each work wonderful, for my part. The total fats coconut milk offers the rice a richer, barely sweeter style. 
Sugar in Rice: I don’t add sugar to my coconut rice, as a result of I don’t prefer it very candy, however if you happen to want a sweeter rice, add 1-3 teaspoons sugar earlier than cooking.

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