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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
I hate Rasa Malaysia! My wife made this recipe today and it made me sick because after tasting one nugget of this fabulous chicken, I took it away from her and ate the whole thing by myself. It was poetic food. Now she is in the kitchen making another bunch of these melt-in-your-mouth-morsels for herself. She is threatening to take them out of the house and to her sister’s home to share with her niece Christina and her sister. I am too full to move and cannot stop her.
we have tried many of Rasa’s recipes, and this is the greatest so far.
This recipe is a go to for me!! It’s delicious!!! Made this a few times for friends and they love it!
I’m stocking up some meals in the freezer for my husband as I’ll be away for a few weeks! Do you know if this would freeze well?
Thanks
Yes.
I’ve made this dish many times now. Everyone in my family absolutely loves it! I add the garlic together with the other sauce ingredients; the garlic doesn’t burn that way. Thank you so much Bee for this fantastic recipe!
This recipe is fantastic! I have already made it multiple times, delicious and so easy.
I just made this after another trip to Malaysia and now back in Australia so needed some Malaysian comfort food. Batter fantastic. Sauce good but am i wrong to say add a tablespoon of soya sauce i think this would add a bit more flavour than ketchup or with both?
Sure, if you like.
This recipe make me hungry, for sure i will try this when free
Awesome, it’s good!
Thank you very much.All of us always can get the new recipe to learn for cooking and baking.
Hi, which browser are you using😊 do you mean that after you clicked the top “Click here for Recipe” red bar it redirects you to the same page😊
I have no idea what Tim is talking about, I just made this and its out of this world, A+, the batter is spot on and the sauce is the best thing I have tasted in years. Rasa, I no longer buy out anymore, your recipe are great..
Thank You Rasa.
Bill
Hi William, thanks so much. Yes, the batter is great, I love it that it makes the chicken so light and airy and crispy!
Hi Tim, I am not sure what happened but many people tried with great success and loved it with five star ratings. If they go limp, it means you didn’t fry the chicken to a golden brown. I used only 1/2 tablespoon of ketchup and there is 1/3 cup honey, there is no way the honey taste could be masked by such little ketchup. The ketchup is supposed to give it some slight tartness in the sauce. Also, there is 1/2 cup water in the sauce with only 1 teaspoon of salt, there is no way it’s too salty. I just tested my sauce recipe in my kitchen just now, the sauce is very watery and you reduce it to a slightly thicker consistency before you add the chicken. I am not sure what happened but I suspect your measurements were way off when making this recipe.