Marinated chicken strips with cucumber relish

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A refreshingly zingy cucumber relish is the perfect foil to the sweet, sticky and fiery marinade Galton Blackiston uses to coat his chicken breast strips in this tasty Summer recipe.

First published in 2015

Ingredients

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Chicken

Marinade

Cucumber relish

Method

1
Combine all the ingredients for the marinade in a bowl. Mix well and set aside
2
Slice the chicken breasts diagonally into 1cm strips. Place in the marinade and gently mix. Leave to marinate for at least 1 hour
3
Meanwhile, prepare the cucumber relish. Peel the cucumber and slice in half lengthways, then finely slice into thin strips
4
Peel and chop the tomatoes, and finely slice the onion. Remove the leaves from the coriander and roughly chop
5
Mix all the relish ingredients together in a bowl. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper and set aside
6
Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6
7
Once the chicken has marinated, heat a wok or ridged frying pan over a medium heat until hot. Quickly sear the chicken in oil until nicely coloured
  • 1 tbsp of olive oil
8
Transfer the chicken strips to a baking tray or roasting tin and cook in the oven for a further 5 minutes
9
Remove from the oven and season with salt and ground black pepper. Sprinkle over the spring onions and toasted sesame seeds
10
Spoon the relish onto plates along with the chicken strips. Serve immediately
First published in 2015

There can't be many Michelin-starred chefs who started out selling homemade cakes, biscuits and preserves on a market stall in Rye in 1979. Yet, the quietly spoken, endearingly eccentric Galton Blackiston isn't like other chefs.

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