Salt & Pepper Chicken with a Thai dipping Sauce

[quirkycooking]

Ooooh, Swiss Diamond!  Good thing I hadn't heard of that one!!  I'll have to be happy with my Scanpan for now 

[johnro]

Jo,  undoubtedly you will be a more careful user with your scanpan than I - be sure not to use on high heat.

[maddy]

I used to be a scanpan fan until I discovered swiss diamond cookware - now that is what I consider the rolls royce of cookware CC. 

It certainly is......sighs......shame it's soooo expensive though!
I had lashed out and bought the SD wok.
Best to keep an eye out for Kitchen Direct deals.....they usually put together a good package from time to time.

Jo,  undoubtedly you will be a more careful user with your scanpan than I - be sure not to use on high heat.

Also any form of cooking sprays will kill the pan too.

[johnro]

Yes Maddy Kitchen Direct have some great deals - I purchased my 3 SD pieces from them plus 2 of our DDs received some for Christmas.  I did everything that was a no no with the scanpan including cooking spray - live and learn is a motto I completely understand,  Cheers - Robyn 

[quirkycooking]

Well, I haven't had kitchen sprays in the house for years, so that's no problem... and I'll be very careful with high heats and children wielding metal spatulas!!!! 

[cookie1]

I dare not replace my stainless steel bits with anything like scanpan. My DH is notorious with non stick surfaces. I watch him and he still manages to kill them. My only non stick is a small frying pan that isn't expensive to replace when he kills it. My stainless steel (with a copper base) is  33 years old and still as good as new so I can't complain. I love it actually.

[foodiepep]

I agree, swiss diamond is much better than Scanpan's non stick.

With Swiss Diamond you can use metal utensils and even a scourer, not that I've ever needed to use a scourer but it said you could on the warranty card.

[Zan]

Had these tonight - yum!!! Maddy so much for posting this.

The kids really loved the Thai dipping sauce which I put in individual pinch bowls, and all drank what was left in their bowls.
(and I ended up eating far more pieces of chicken than I started with :-)

Next time dh wants salt and chili chicken.

He also cooked them in his deep fat fryer so easy to cook and not greasy at all.

[maddy]

LOL Zan...with your kids drinking the sauce! 

Your meal looks lovely!
 Chilli would be nice too  ......even a lemon pepper version 

[Zan]

mmmm lemon pepper.
I can see dh getting to use his fryer more often now!! Think in the 2 years he's had it it's only been used 4 times. But do like the results, so much less fatty than shallow frying, not that I do that either, lol.
But, lol, yes I can imagine making up a big batch of the sauce for the kids to drink. dd3 (3) did suck the limes after I'd squeezed them, so knew she'd like it.

[tarasis]

Oh Maddy you have me salivating! And I have a deep fat fryer handy ... Not sure I can get the Rice [...] oil someone mentioned, don't think I've seen it before.

@Zan: I've only been allowed to get my deep fat fryer out again this year after over 6 years of inactivity. Not quite sure why but I not complaining

[cookie1]

We had these the other night and really loved them. I served them with a salad. I only shallow fried mine and they were still lovely and crunchy. I did them in 2 lots with about 2 tablespoons of oil each time.

[Zan]

tarasis - if you can't get rice bran oil then sunflower or vegetable is fine - any oil that can be heated to a high heat without burning, not olive oil.
(btw for anyone in Oz interested rice bran oil (the tins) is on special in Woolworths this week)

[Merlin]

Tarasis, any cooking oil with a high smoking point would be good,such as canola oil or vegetable oil. Rice bran oil just seems to be popular around here at the moment and is flavorless, so I  use it heaps for cooking or baking, but not in salads etc.

[Halex]

On the menu for dinner tomorrow.
Shoud I reduce the pepper, i think it might be too much for crown prince charming.

H