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Georgina Hayden's quick and easy recipe for spiced sticky chicken with plums and pancakes

A quick, takeaway-style chicken dish full of spice and flavour, with a homemade plum sauce, to serve with pancakes or rice

Georgina Hayden's quick and easy recipe for spiced sticky chicken with plums and pancakes

TL;DR

  • The recipe is a homemade version of Chinese takeaway crispy duck pancakes.
  • It uses pan-fried chicken breasts marinated in salt, white pepper, and Chinese five-spice.
  • A sticky plum sauce is created by simmering plums with ginger, star anise, sugar, rice vinegar, and soy sauce.
  • Accompaniments include spring onions and cucumber.
  • The dish can also be served over jasmine rice.