My air fryer candy and bitter rooster bowls characteristic tremendous crispy rooster, vibrant veggies, and a do-it-yourself candy and bitter sauce! I really like making this recipe on busy weeknights once I need one thing that tastes like takeout 🥰🥰. The candy and bitter sauce is so so yummy and solely requires just a few substances. Bonus, my kiddos love this recipe, too!
- Complete meal in a single bowl: Sauté peppers and onions whereas your rooster is air frying, and serve it throughout a mattress of rice.
- Tremendous crispy rooster: I’ve been creating air fryer recipes for years, and this one is one in all my favorites! I really like each alternative to make additional crispy rooster (with out a deep fryer!), and this one significantly slays. Toss the rooster in my wonderful candy and bitter sauce, and ENJOY.
- Tastes like takeout: I loveeee candy and bitter rooster, however don’t all the time love the ingredient checklist once I order it for takeout. My candy and bitter sauce for this recipe is of course sweetened with honey and orange marmalade, and spiced up only a bit with chili garlic sauce (sriracha additionally works!).
Featured Components
- Rooster: I like utilizing boneless skinless rooster breasts for this recipe, however boneless skinless thighs may also work.
- Panko bread crumbs: Panko helps provides the breading for the rooster its additional CRUNCH when air fryed.
- Orange marmalade: My secret sauce ingredient! It provides this candy and bitter rooster wonderful candy taste and thickens the sauce a bit, too.
- Cornstarch slurry: The slurry is essential to thickening up the sauce! Don’t wish to use cornstarch? Simply omit it, however know your sauce will probably be a bit thinner.
- Chili garlic sauce: Distinction the candy marmalade and honey with just a little chili garlic sauce (sriracha may also work!). I wish to go just a little lighter on the spice once I’m serving this to my kiddos, after which add just a little additional to mine earlier than serving 😋.
- Rice vinegar: Provides the proper of “bitter” taste to steadiness out the sweetness within the sauce.
Discover the checklist of full substances within the recipe card under.
How one can Make Air Fryer Candy and Bitter Rooster
- Put together the sauce: Add all of the substances for the sauce right into a small saucepan and simmer. Make the cornstarch slurry in a separate bowl after which add it to the simmering sauce to thicken it up
- Sauté the veggies: Add your chopped veggies to a skillet with sesame oil, and prepare dinner for 5-7 minutes.
- Put together the rooster: Dredge the rooster via flour, then egg wash, after which panko. This order of operations will assist the breading stick additional effectively to the rooster (which yields a brilliant crispy rooster after its air fried!).
- Air fry the rooster: Be certain the rooster chunks aren’t touching and air fry to crispy perfection.
- Toss the rooster within the candy and bitter sauce.
- Assemble into bowls, and ENJOY!
Discover the complete recipe directions within the recipe card under.
Serving Ideas
My on the spot pot white rice recipe is a go-to! It makes good rice each single time. Merely make a batch of rice within the on the spot pot when you’re making ready the remainder of these bowls. Simple peasy.
Storage Directions
Retailer this air fryer candy and bitter rooster in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. I wish to heat my rooster and veggies again up within the air fryer as a result of it crisps up leftovers so effectively 🙌🏻. The microwave additionally works!
Extra Simple Air-Fryer Recipes
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Start by making ready the candy and bitter sauce. Add the honey, ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce, orange marmalade, and chili garlic sauce to a saucepan. Whisk to mix. Carry the combination to a mild boil over medium/excessive warmth. Flip the warmth to low and simmer.
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In a separate bowl make the cornstarch slurry, whisk collectively the cornstarch and heat water. When the cornstarch dissolves, pour the combination into the saucepan. Whisk the slurry into the candy and bitter sauce. It ought to start to thicken fairly rapidly. Take away from warmth and put aside.
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Put together the veggies by heating the sesame oil in a big skillet over medium/excessive warmth. Add the onion and peppers to the oil and season with salt. Saute for 5-7 minutes or till they attain the specified texture. Cowl and take away from warmth.
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Subsequent, put together the rooster. In three separate bowls, add the flour to at least one, whisked eggs to the second, and panko bread crumbs and salt to the third bowl.
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Dredge a bit of rooster via the flour, then egg, after which the panko. Make certain it’s totally coated. Put aside and repeat till all of the rooster has been coated.
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Switch the rooster to the air fryer and spray with avocado oil. Make certain the rooster items aren’t overcrowded. Cook dinner at 400º for 5-8 minutes (relies on what sort of air fryer you’re utilizing) or till the rooster is golden brown and crispy. You might must prepare dinner the rooster in batches. We’re in search of an inside temperature of 165ºF.
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Switch the cooked rooster to a big bowl and toss with the sauce till coated. Serve the rooster and peppers over rice or on their very own.
- We used orange marmalade, however you possibly can substitute that with any sort of jam. Notice that should you use a unique fruit, it’ll change the flavour of the sauce.
- Possibility to interchange the orange marmalade with orange juice. Notice that you could be want so as to add a bit extra cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
Energy: 449 kcal, Carbohydrates: 63 g, Protein: 32 g, Fats: 8 g, Fiber: 2 g, Sugar: 35 g
Vitamin info is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.
Images: photographs taken on this publish are by Erin from The Picket Skillet.
