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🍗High Protein Crispy Hot Honey Chicken Mac & Cheese
by Kevin Forbes (@kevin_forbes)
Easy high protein meal prep with crispy air fried chicken tossed in hot honey sauce and served with creamy mac and cheese. 63g protein per serving.
19 ingredients9 steps4 servings813.4 cal/serving
SpicyHigh Protein
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Crispy Chicken
Crispy Chicken
- 700 gchicken breast(diced, boneless & skinless, raw weight)
- 0.5 tsponion powder
- 1 tspsalt
- 0.5 tspgarlic powder
- 0.5 tspcayenne pepper
- 1 tspsmoked paprika
- 1egg
- 120 gcornflour/cornstarch(not all is used, approximately 30 to 45g sticks to the chicken)
- 1 tbspoil
Hot Honey Sauce
Hot Honey Sauce
- 10 glight butter(Nuttelex Light)
- 100 mlhot sauce(Franks RedHot Buffalo Sauce)
- 50 ghoney
- 1 dashcayenne pepper
Mac & Cheese
Mac & Cheese
- 300 mlfat free evaporated milk(Carnation Light & Creamy)
- 1 tspsmoked paprika
- 1 tspchicken stock powder
- 80 glight cream cheese
- 100 glight grated cheddar cheese(Dairyworks Natural Cheddar Cheese)
- 320 gmacaroni pasta(uncooked weight)
Instructions
Crispy Chicken
- 1Season the diced chicken, add the egg and mix until evenly coated. Toss through the cornflour until every piece is well coated.
- 21tbsp oil in pan.
- 3Arrange the chicken on a lined tray, spray with light cooking oil and pan fry until crispy, flipping and spraying again halfway through.
Hot Honey Sauce
- 1While the chicken cooks, melt the butter in a pan, then add the hot sauce, honey and cayenne pepper. Stir until combined.
- 2Toss the cooked chicken through the hot honey sauce until evenly coated.
Mac & Cheese
- 1In a separate pan, combine the evaporated milk, smoked paprika, chicken stock powder, light cream cheese and grated cheddar. Stir over low heat until smooth and creamy.
- 2Cook the macaroni according to the packet instructions, then drain well.
- 3Add the cooked pasta to the cheese sauce and mix until fully coated.
- 4Divide the hot honey chicken and mac & cheese evenly into 4 meal prep servings.
Nutrition Facts
Valeur nutritive
Per 1 serving
pour 1 serving
% Daily Value*
% valeur quotidienne*
Calories 813.4
Fat / Lipides 18.5 g25 %
Saturated / saturés 7 g36 %
+ Trans 0.1 g
Cholesterol / Cholestérol 201.7 mg67 %
Sodium 1889.4 mg82 %
Carbohydrate / Glucides 90.8 g33 %
Fibre / Fibres 3.1 g11 %
Sugars / Sucres 23.9 g24 %
Protein / Protéines 67.2 g
Potassium 1206.5 mg35 %
Calcium 496.2 mg38 %
Vitamin D / Vitamine D
Iron / Fer 4 mg22 %
*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot
*5% ou moins c'est peu, 15% ou plus c'est beaucoup
Some ingredients do not say how much, so an amount was assumed for them before any of this was counted:
"10 g light butter (Nuttelex Light)" assumed as "10 g of light margarine spread" See 3 moreShow fewer
- "1 tsp chicken stock powder" assumed as "2.96 g of chicken stock powder"
- "100 g light grated cheddar cheese (Dairyworks Natural Cheddar Cheese)" assumed as "100 g of light cheddar cheese"
- Light Margarine Spread, Chicken Stock Powder, Light Cheddar Cheese, Macaroni Pasta, Fat Free Evaporated Milk are not in our ingredient list, so they are counted as typical ingredients.
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