Recipe Marmalade chilli chicken

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This is an easy dish to make and right now, I like easy. Spicy and bitter sweet, the chicken can be served hot or cold. Serve it hot with lemon butter rice (stir lemon zest and a generous knob of butter through cooked rice). This is a very low fat chicken dish so the butter in the rice is a sin free addition. One very large chicken breast will serve two people, but you could make this with two smaller chicken breasts.

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Ingredients
2 tbsp marmalade
1 tbsp Kashmiri chilli powder
2 tbsp orange juice
1 large boneless, skinless chicken breast
2 radishes, sliced thinly
2 fat cloves of garlic, sliced thinly
1 small thumb of ginger, sliced thinly
1 large mild red chilli, sliced into rounds
A splash of sherry (optional)
A few slices of thinly sliced orange
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves to garnish

Method
  1. Mix the marmalade, Kashmiri chilli powder and orange juice together. Marinate the chicken breast overnight in this mixture.
  2. Heat the oven to 180C.
  3. Place a large sheet of foil on a baking tray and place all the ingredients (plus marinade) on the foil. Sprinkle with salt, to taste.
  4. Tent a larger piece of foil over the top and carefully seal the edges.
  5. Place in the oven for 35 minutes. Remove the top layer of foil and lightly char the orange slices and vegetables with a culinary blowtorch (optional).
  6. Scatter a few chopped coriander leaves over.
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Beautiful! CMT'd
My DD doesn't like spicy/hot. So I may use small long red peppers and smoked paprika. Thank you.
My torch is a bit shotty so under the broiler.

You could use smoked paprika but it might dominate the flavour. Unsmoked might be better, but of course feel free to experiment. Kashmiri chilli is normally quite mild. Its about the same heat a Spanish paprika in my opinion, but obviously chilli heat varies.
 
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