Keto Vietnamese Coconut Caramel Chicken

Keto Vietnamese Coconut Caramel Chicken is heaven! This is an easy Vietnamese keto chicken recipe. Slow cooked chicken with coconut milk and Vietnamese-style seasoning until meat is falling apart and the sauce reduces down to a caramel glaze.

You won't believe how good this keto Vietnamese chicken could be! If you tried and liked my recipe for keto Vietnamese pork belly, you will love this one too! 

I love this type of recipe. Unusual, rich flavor, delicious, sticky, and keto, of course! It was inspired by the recipe from Nagi, Recipetineats. Thank you, Nagi! 🙂

A wonderful combination of low-carb sweetener erythritol, fish sauce, rice vinegar, and coconut milk goes perfectly with tender chicken meat. I love serving it with cauliflower rice. Here you have an easy and delicious recipe for cauliflower rice. 

Ingredients for keto Vietnamese chicken recipe

For this recipe, you will need chicken thighs or chicken drumsticks with skin. It is possible to make it with skinless meat, but I don't recommend it because the sauce is sticky, and the meat can stick to the bottom of the pan. If you decide to make it with skinless meat anyway, cook it shorter. 

The Vietnamese-style flavor is easy to get with a small amount of rice vinegar and fish sauce, combined with coconut milk. Don't be afraid of fish sauce. I can imagine that it can be a very sharp smell and you want to avoid it if you are sensitive. But that is just temporary. When cooked you won't sense any bad smell, it will be so well combined and delicious!

Coconut milk is also important for this recipe. I always use and recommend full-fat coconut milk, some people call it coconut cream. It's canned, so look for full-fat coconut cans! 🙂

You will also need 2 or 3 garlic cloves, one little onion, and some pepper. You don't need any salt because fish sauce is salty! 

HOW TO MAKE KETO VIETNAMESE COCONUT CARAMEL CHICKEN

Place erythritol and water in a  pan or a skillet over medium heat. Stir, and when it bubbles and erythritol is melted and starts reducing add the rest of the ingredients except chicken. 

Stir to combine everything and add chicken with the skin down, cover it, and leave it to simmer on medium heat for 20 minutes.

Uncover it, turn the chicken on another side and cook for 2o minutes more. Last 20 minutes check it often because you want it to become dark brown and caramelized, but not burned. When the caramel separates from the fat it is done.

Serve chicken with cauliflower rice and scoop some extra sauce.

Garnish with cilantro and chili if you like it and enjoy! 🙂

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Keto Vietnamese Coconut Caramel Chicken

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Keto Vietnamese Coconut Caramel Chicken is heaven! This is an easy Vietnamese keto chicken recipe. Slow cooked chicken with coconut milk and Vietnamese-style seasoning until meat is falling apart and the sauce reduces down to a caramel glaze.

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Ingredients

• Chicken thighs and drumsticks 500 g/17.64 oz
• Erythritol ½ cup
• Water 1 TBS
• Canned full-fat coconut milk ½ can/200 ml
• Water ½ cup/110 ml
• Fish sauce 1.5 TBS
• Rice vinegar 2.5 TBS
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 1 small onion finely chopped 27 g/0.95 oz
• Pepper ¼ tsp
• GARNISH
• Cilantro leaves
• Chili flakes or fresh chili

Instructions

1. Place erythritol and water in a  pan or a skillet over medium heat.
2. Stir, and when it bubbles and erythritol is melted and starts reducing add the rest of the ingredients except chicken. 
3. Stir to combine everything and add chicken with the skin down.
4. Cover it, and leave it to simmer on medium heat for 20 minutes.
5. Uncover, turn the chicken on another side and cook for 2o minutes more.
6. Last 20 minutes check often because it has to be dark brown and caramelized, but not burned. When the caramel separates from the fat it is done.
7. Serve chicken with cauliflower rice and scoop some extra sauce.
8. Garnish with cilantro and chili if you like it and enjoy! 🙂

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 4 Serving Size: ¼th
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 353Total Fat: 27gNet Carbohydrates: 1.5gProtein: 34g

This is for your information only. Please calculate your own macros with the ingredients you use.