This spicy sweet chicken recipe is bursting with flavor from tangy hot sauce, honey and umami coconut aminos for a gluten free air fryer recipe with zero oil.
1 ½lbsboneless skinless chicken breast, cut into 1-2 inch pieces
¼cupgluten-free flour
½cuphot sauce
2tablespoonhoney
2tablespooncoconut aminos
¼teaspoonred pepper flakes
2tablespoonchopped green onion
For Serving
1cupdry white rice
3cupssteamed edamame
¼teaspoonflaky sea salt
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Instructions
Cook rice according to package directions.
Heat hot sauce, honey, coconut aminos and red pepper flakes over medium-low heat until steaming. Pour into a small bowl.
Blot chicken pieces dry with paper towel and place in a medium mixing bowl. Add gluten-free flour and toss to coat chicken pieces. Spread chicken evenly in basket of air fryer. Close and air fry at 390ºF for 8 minutes. Shake basket and fry for 8 minutes longer. Spoon ½ of sauce mixture over chicken and shake to evenly coat. Fry for 5 minutes longer.
Divide the remaining sauce between 4 small sauce cups. Add firecracker chicken to large compartments of 4 white MPOF containers and sprinkle with green onion. Divide rice between one of the smaller (1 cup) compartments of each container and edamame in the other. Sprinkle edamame with sea salt. Drizzle remaining sauce on chicken before enjoying.