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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
This recipe is awesome! So easy and it’s not nearly as messy to make as some other Chinese take out recipes I’ve tried. I will be using that batter recipe for a bunch of other recipes where the batter was not good or too messy.
how can I change the serving size for the recipe? I need about 6 servings.
Really awesome flavor! I found it helpful to use a splatter guard to protect from hot oil, and I tried to keep the oil at around 350 degrees fahrenheit. It took me just about six minutes to fry each batch. I ended up making 1.5 times the amount of sauce this recipe makes and it was perfect!
Bee
Fantastic mate , I love it and it turned out lol. Now one of my favs, thanks Bee easy to follow instructions and the taste better than shop any day
Take care
Awesome thanks!
Hi I would love to make this honey chicken but they don’t sell cornstarch where I’m from so I was wondering if you know of anything I can substitute it for. Thanks so much!
Just use more flour.
Use only flour
Amanda, be aware that cornstarch is called cornflour in British English.
Hi ! I do want to try as sok as possible. However, for a gluten-free version, what do you suggest, please ? Can I use cornstarch only but then, how many cups in total ? Thank you very much in advance, have a great weekend.
I’ve tried many times to cook perfect honey chicken, this dish is by far the best I’ve had, even better than others I’ve tried at many local Chinese
takeaway shops. Thanks for sharing this recipe, it’s one I’m keeping
Awesome thanks for trying my recipe. Please try more: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Can you make this chicken in an air fryer instead of frying in oil?
You can try air fryer but I am not sure how it works with the wet batter.
What an amazing recipe. Would love to try this with pork shoulder? Do you think that would work? Would I need to make any adjustments?
Yes, it should work.
the BEST honey chicken recipe I have come across. You NAILED it!!!
Hi Brandon, thanks. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
This recipe is pure gold ! Thank u sooo much , have tried it three times now and its fool proof :) cant wait to try out more Xx
Thanks so much. Yes, please try more recipes on my site.
Hello,
Would definitely like to make your Honey Sesame Chicken, my question is, what oil do you use, in the recipe it just says, ” oil for frying?”
Thank you,
Patrice
Vegetable oil.