Perfect Chinese Honey Chicken Recipes

Chinese Honey Chicken. Crisp fried chicken strips in a sweet sauce. Despite the name there is no honey in this recipe. I have not yet tried it, it is for an ISO request on the recipe board.

If you love Chinese food, you will love this simple and delicious dish. The crispy chicken is deep-fried on stove top and glazed in a sweet and savory honey sauce. Chinese Honey Chicken is the kid sister to the ever popular and expensive restaurant favorite of Honey Walnut Shrimp and the perfect recipe to serve alongside. You can cook Chinese Honey Chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chinese Honey Chicken

1. Prepare of Marinade.
2. It's of Soy sauce.
3. You need of Rice wine or cooking wine.
4. Prepare of Egg white.
5. It's of Flour.
6. Prepare of Sauce.
7. You need of Chicken stock.
8. You need 2 tbsp of Honey.
9. You need 2 tbsp of White vinegar.
10. You need 1 tbsp of Soy Sauce.
11. You need 3 tbsp of Brown sugar.
12. You need of Garlic (minced and chopped).
13. You need of Corn starch.
14. Prepare of Main ingredient.
15. You need of Chicken breasts (fillet or with bones).
16. You need of Sesame seeds.

This is a Honey Chicken that's built to last! This recipe brings together a plethora of Asian cooking secrets for a Honey Chicken that stays crispy for hours, even after tossing in the honey sauce. The Chinese Fry batter yields a crispy, puffy coating that's light and not greasy, and requires no special ingredients or equipment! The chicken is first battered, deep fried and then coated with a thick sauce.

Chinese Honey Chicken instructions

1. Marinate chicken with all the marinade ingredients except the flour. Set aside..
2. Mix all the sauce ingredients except for the garlic and corn starch. Stir to mix well..
3. Coat the marinated chicken with flour..
4. Heat oil in a pan then deep fry the coated chicken until it turns brown. Set aside..
5. Saute garlic until it turns light brown..
6. Pour the prepared sauce into the pan and let it simmer until there are bubbles..
7. Add water with corn starch until sauce thickens..
8. Add the cooked chicken into the sauce..
9. Serve it with sesame seeds sprinkled on top..

You can use a wok but I really recommend deep frying the chicken bits when using a batter like this. The sauce is a delicious mixture of honey, garlic, and ginger and rice vinegar. 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. It features best of both worlds of sesame chicken.