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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
Just like Chinese takeaway but better, brilliant and easy.
Hi Frank thanks for trying my honey sesame chicken. :)
It takes just like Chinese chicken even before the sauce I have made it twice now and love it
Hi Lydia, thanks for trying my honey sesame chicken recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
This recipe was amazing, thank you. I have a big family and made the recipe x5 and there was leftovers. I paired it with rice and baked potatoes for a comfort meal :) and will definitely add this as a family dish. So easy to make.
Hi Holly, thanks for your sweet comment. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Doubled the recipe and my family loved it a lot – and so do I. Thanks for the recipe!
Dear Bee,
I recently discovered this great site with superb Asian recipes. I already made the delicious General Tso’s chicken and I will surely prepare many more of your mouth-watering recipes.
I have a simple question. I noticed that you sometimes use 1/2 cup ice cold water in your famous frying batter (like in this recipe) and sometimes 1/3 cup ice cold water (e.g. in the orange chicken and sesame chicken recipes). Is there a recipe specific reason for this or did you adjust the amount of ice cold water over the years based on your experience? And if you adjusted the amount of water, is it nowadays the 1/3 cup you prefer in your batter?
Hope you can help me out.
Best regards from The Netherlands,
Fred
Hi Fred, I change my recipes all the time, for the batter, you can use 1/3 if you want a slightly thicker coating or 1/2 if you want a thinner coating. It’s all up to you.
Thanks, Bee.
This is the best sesame chicken recipe that I have found! I have tried several others and this one will my go-to from now on. Thank you for posting this recipe. This was amazing and I will definitely be adding this recipe to the rotation. This is better than take out. The chicken is so crispy and the sauce is perfect! This is excellent!
Hi Mat, yes, please try more recipes from my site, they are all good: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
One of my favorite dish, Amazing look & taste .thanks for sharing with us.
Loved this recipe. Made it two days in a row. Halved the ingredients on the first time. Second time I halved batter ingredients but kept sauce ingredients complete for extra sauce. Either way was great.
With the garlic I just roughly chopped it so people can pick it out if needed. Flavour was still there.
Try and get the chicken as crispy as possible in the oil so that it stays crispy under the coating. So good thank you.
I found making the sauce and batter first was easier.
Serviced with white boiled rice and Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce. Super easy.
Hi there, so happy you tried my recipe. Please do try more recipes on my site, they are all super delicious: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Great recipe my family loved it
will do it again my kids and my mum all said they can’t wait for me to do it I cooked a double batch this time and all my kids had extra and had no left overs
Hi David, awesome, thanks for trying. Do try out more of my recipes, they are all good: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Can I air fry this instead?
You can try!
I made this last night and it didn’t disappoint. Easy to prepare and make. I deep fried the chicken to ensure it was golden brown. Tasted amazing. Brilliant recipe and will be going into my favourites. Thanks.
Hi Brian, awesome, please try more recipes on my site, they are all delicious and very easy: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/