When I first thought about cooking, it was very scary, I thought how could I cook, cooking was going to be too hard for me, I would never cook. That was my observation of cooking.

Just after Christmas however in 2016 last year, I decided that since my parents were doing the Slimming World, I decided that I would start cooking the Slimming World way. The Slimming World way, actually to my surprise turned out to be quite easy to do and the ingredients are lovely to taste and also the recipes are really easy to create.

I created some amazing dishes when I started off, the beef and chicken curries that I created were enjoyable and easy and the taste, was like an angel singing on your mouth. There was a dry Cottage pie thrown in there too, next time with that, perhaps I should throw in an oxo vegetable stock cube for a bit of help.

Fast forward to today though, I spied this recipe, this day two weekends ago. Spicy Shredded Chicken! It was a take-away that could be turned into a fake-away. I was really looking forward to creating it as I love spicy dishes and going to the Chinese.

Well, it went great!

All you have to do is:

Cut up An onion, red / green pepper, 2 garlic cloves.

Mix the flour, egg (I used two), salt and pepper into a batter and coat the chicken in the batter and cook at 180 degrees for 30 – 40 minutes.

Stirfry the onion, peppers, garlic cloves with frylite while the chicken is coming to the end of cooking through. Once the chicken is ready, throw it in with the vegetables.

Add the soy sauce and sweet chilli, cook until the chicken becomes sticky and once complete, serve with some basmati rice.

So guys, if you were like me a couple of years ago, get into that kitchen with either your girlfriend, wife or even by yourself and don’t be afraid to get things wrong, because that is how you learn, by getting stuff wrong, and remember to have fun with your cooking.