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My Most Popular Chinese Recipes ❤️
Tips, tricks, and recipes for perfect Chinese dishes
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My Most Popular Chinese Recipes ❤️
Tips, tricks, and recipes for Chinese dishes
What Is Honey Sesame Chicken?
Honey chicken is one of the most popular Chinese recipes on Rasa Malaysia.
I created that recipe two years ago and many readers have requested variations of that recipe.
Today, I am creating a new recipe called honey sesame chicken, which is quite popular on Pinterest (remember to follow me). It features best of both worlds of sesame chicken and honey chicken.
The Best Way to Prepare This Meal
To make this chicken, all you need are a few everyday ingredients that you can get at any food store or supermarket. This recipe is super simple, and you can make it anytime you want.
While most people don’t like to do deep-frying at home, I strongly urge you to do so with this honey sesame chicken recipe and other Chinese recipes on Rasa Malaysia.
The reason why we all love Chinese takeouts and dishes so much is because of the deep-fried chicken coated with rich and savory sauce.
Eat them with some warm steamed rice and you have your guilty pleasure.
So I say forget about baked chicken, let’s fry the chicken and give your stomach and palate a treat.
We all deserve to indulge once in a while.
How to Fry the Chicken
The sweetest thing about this recipe is that you don’t even really need to deep fry the chicken, as a shallow fry works very well at home.
You don’t need a deep fryer, or 6 inches of oil to deep fry a batch of chicken for dinner.
You just need a small saute pan (non-stick preferably for ease of cleaning and frying), about 2 inches of oil, a pair of long chopsticks, and you are good.
There is no wastage of oil, no splattering oil, but gloriously fried chicken pieces ready to be cooked with the sweet, tangy, and savory honey sesame sauce.
Easy, breezy, and no fuss!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 416 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Honey Sesame Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 lb. (500g) boneless chicken breast, cut into 1-inch (2.5cm) cubes or long strips
- oil for deep-frying
- 2 garlic (minced)
- toasted sesame seeds to garnish
Frying Batter:
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (sifted)
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup water (ice cold)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 pinch salt
Honey Sesame Sauce:
- 1/3 cup pure honey
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 tablespoon ketchup
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Whisk all the "Frying Batter" ingredients together until smooth. Set aside. Drop in the chicken cubes, mix well until they are well coated. Set aside.
- Mix all the ingredients of the "Honey Sesame Sauce" together and set aside.
- Heat up a saute pan and add about 2-inch of oil on medium to high heat. When the oil is fully heated, gently drop in the battered chicken cubes, one by one, making sure it is spread out to prevent sticking together. Continue to fry until the color changes to golden brown. Dish out and drain on paper towels.
- Transfer 2 tablespoons of the frying oil in a wok or skillet, stir-fry the garlic until aromatic. Add in the Honey Sesame Sauce, and bring to a light simmer or until the sauce thickens.
- Drop in the chicken, stir-fry a few times to combine the sauce and chicken, add the sesame seeds, dish out and serve immediately with steamed white rice, or Chinese fried rice.
Notes
Nutrition
Absolutely wonderful. Tasted better than takeout. Can’t wait to make this again.
I made this for dinner and it was delicious and I will definitely be making this dish again. I love this so much.
Awesome!
Hi!
I made this twice. Absolutely yummy!! Thank you. I wondered if instead of frying in oil, could I put the chicken in the air fryer if ever you tried that?
You can try!
Mine turned out to be pretty bad although I followed the recipe exactly :( The butter didn’t stay on the chicken, and the honey sauce was too sweet. My expectation was high so I was very disappointed. But everyone is giving this recipe a high rating, so maybe I will try again sometime. Your other recipes look great though!
Sorry to hear that, feel free to try other recipes on my site!
This recipe works great for me. If the sauce is too sweet for you you could try adding some soy sauce in, I’ve seen other recipes do that.
For the batter to stay on the chicken it’s all about frying technique. I find I can’t just drop the chicken in the fryer, I hold it in the oil with tongs for a few seconds so it gets a crispy layer, and only then drop it in. Otherwise the batter will fry onto the saucepan
what are you talking about with butter there’s no butter in this recipe and make sure your oil is hot enough i don’t know what you did wrong but i use this great recipe for my go too sweet n sour chik sesame chic all of the other recipes and as far as the sauce goes? if it’s too sweet use less honey or add some hot sauce but the sauce if done right it works just fine try again and make sure you sift your flour too…
I absolutely love this recipe and I make it all the time but I have the worst problem with the chicken sticking to the bottom of my cast iron skillet that I used to fry it in. I use a chicken fryer so it’s deep enough but they stick really badly. Any tips?
Heat up your cast iron to HOT. It sticks because your skillet is not heated enough. Grease it first before using.
I absolutely love honey chicken but I was sick of ordering out! This recipe is so easy and absolutely delicious!! Definitely recommending to family and friends ?
Nice to know!
I replaced the flour with 1/4 C almond meal and 1/4 C gluten free flour and it turned out wonderful. It was so good and the first time I was able to have sesame chicken since going gluten free.
Hi, is this suitable for freezing or refrigeration after cooking? Thanks. Was delicious!
You can try to freeze.