Honey chicken is a popular Chinese chicken dish which goes well with fried rice or chow mein. The chicken dish is addictive and delicious. This dish is usually served with fried rice or chow mein.
Honey Chicken Recipe
This is quite a popular chicken recipe, i made it few days back. It is so easy to make and turns out very very delicious. Hubby went crazy over this chicken. It was that good. You have to try it for sure.
About Honey Chicken
Honey Chicken Recipe is a delicious tasty recipe from Chinese Cuisine. If you love Chinese food then definitely you will love this recipe.
It's very easy and simple to cook. Mostly served for Dinner and weekend parties with Noodles, Chow mein or Fried rice.
This is a simple version of making honey chicken and it was so tasty. You have to try it once to see how tasty it turns out. It will be your kids new favourite since it is not at all spicy. Honey chicken has only 373 calories per serving when made with 400 gms of chicken.
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I used chicken breast which I found out perfect, but you can use thighs too. In that case, the cooking time may vary. Meanwhile check my dragon prawns.
The sauce is just super simple. It is just a combination of sugar, ketchup, honey and water. These ingredients create the most iconic taste.
The combination of plain flour and cornstarch along with baking powder helps create crispy exterior in chicken. Make sure to fry the chicken until it turns golden brown. Thats when the chicken get super crispy.
The sauce and the fried chicken should be combined just before serving to keep the crispy texture. Make sure to sprinkle some sesame seeds on the honey chicken before serving.
Ingredients
- Chicken Breast : Chop chicken breast evenly into cubes, if you take large pieces it will extend your cooking time. you can also use chicken breast of thighs.
- All Purpose Flour : It gives softness to the batter and we have to use less amount of plain flour comparatively to cornstarch. The reason to add plain flour is to get golden colour and to activate baking powder it won't activate with only cornstarch.
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch helps create crispy texture in the chicken.
- Baking Powder : Baking powder acts with all purpose flour to the make batter puffy and crispiness to the chicken.
- For Sauce : a combination of ketchup, honey, sugar and water is used to make the sauce.
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Make the sauce for honey chicken
1)The sauce for honey chicken is super simple. Take tomato ketchup, sugar in a bowl.
2)Drizzle in honey over this. This dish has no spice added, the taste is tangy and sweet.
3)Pour enough water to dilute the sauce.
4)Mix well and set aside. You can taste and adjust the sugar and honey. The taste should be balanced with the sweetness of honey and tangyness of ketchup.
Cut Chicken Breast
5)Take boneless skinless chicken breast and cut into bite size cubes.
6)The size of the chicken should be bite size. Set this aside till needed.
Make Batter for chicken
7)Take plain flour, cornstarch in a mixing bowl.
8)Add in salt.
9)Add in baking powder. Mix this all together so the salt and baking powder is evenly combined.
10)Pour enough water to make a batter.
11)The batter shouldn't be too thick or too thin. So adjust the consistency accordingly.
Frying Chicken
12)Take chicken breast pieces and dip it into the batter.
13)The batter should coat the chicken really well.
14)Drop the chicken one by one into hot oil. Don't over crowd the pan.
15)Let the chicken fry until it gets golden brown and crispy. It will take around 6 to 7 minutes.
16)Strain the chicken onto some paper towel.
Mixing sauce and chicken
17)Pour the sauce on a frying pan and let it come to a boil.
18)Let the sauce boil like this. It will get glossy and shiny and slightly thick. Just one minute is enough.
19)Now take it off the heat and add in the fried chicken.
20)Toss to coat the chicken with the sauce.
21)Transfer to a serving plate, sprinkle with sesame seeds and enjoy.
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Honey Chicken Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 medium Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast cubed
- Sunflower Oil for deep frying
For Honey Chicken Sauce
- ½ cup Tomato Ketchup
- 2 tablespoon Granulated Sugar
- 3 tablespoon Honey
- 3 tablespoon Water
For Batter
- ½ cup All Purpose Flour (Plain Flour)
- ½ cup Corn Starch
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt to taste
- Water as needed
For garnishing
- 1 teaspoon Toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- Take all the sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix well until sugar is mixed. Set aside.
- Take all the batter ingredients in a bowl, add water slowly and make it into a semi thick batter.
- Dip each chicken in batter and fry till golden. It should be crispy. Strain onto some paper towel and set aside.
- Heat a saute pan. Pour the mixed sauce in the pan and cook till it is thick and glossy. It will take around 1 to 2 minute.
- Take it off the heat and add in fried chicken. Toss to coat. Serve with a sprinkle of sesame seeds.
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Anonymous
Doesn't need to add chilly sauce?
Sneha Borker
Hi dear could you plss post a recipe of chicken rawa fry wìth green masala....plss
Anonymous
Aarthi.. Doesn't need to add chilly sauce?
Anonymous
Hi aarthi, is it okay to heat honey? It makes it becoming toxic to human consumption
Priscilla
Hi this looks yummy.. But except me no one in my family would like a sweet dish.. any ideas of how to make this a little spicy
Aarthi
@AnonymousIf you want you can add chilli sauce or red chilli flakes. But this recipe dont need that
Aarthi
@PriscillaU can add some chilli flakes in this
Aarthi
@AnonymousI dont think so, since honey is used in many cooking and baking recipes
Josphine
Another yummy dish..tnx for the recipe.my daughter just loved it..
Anonymous
Thank you so much
Anonymous
Delicious! Everone wanted seconds. The ketchup was a surprising ingredient.
Thankyou
Barbara
Délicieux je me suis regallé! Thanks fromage France!
Anonymous
This recipe made my kids to eat chicken. Thanks for the recipe.
Anonymous
Fantastic cant wait to try it. It also reminds me of sweet and sour pork that the Chinese make. Probably will work with pork too. Thanks for the recipe.
Priya
Yummy honey chicken...���� followed ur receipe as such and Tried it.. came very well..Thanks you..
I.F.
It looks so delicious & it makes me mouth-watering! This dish would definitely be my son's favourite！Would you please give out in grams? I looked up ½ cup for conversion online.... but it comes with so many different results..... 😱
Anonymous
Best honey chicken ever everyone loved it thank you for such a great easy recipe
Crissy
This was delicious! I am usually unsure about recipes that call for an ingredient "as needed", but I just added water until the batter looked good. Almost a cup! The chicken was nice and crispy, and the sauce was thick and so easy to throw together. Great recipe!
Gina
More sauce please??? It seems to me that the honey part is what makes the chicken so addictive. 2 tbsps??? Really???? I quadrupled the sauce recipe to coat my chicken thoroughly. Came out delicious!
Nick Rutherford
added 2 tsp sriracha and juice from 1/2 a sqeezed oarange, turned out great.
lisa
I added soy sauce and a little sesame oil to the sauce and it was excellent.
Nicole
Hi there, can I make this without corn starch but everything else?
Aarthi
Cornstarch will make it crispy
Mary pace
Question
Could you bake thisinstead of frying? Or another way to lighten it up? Thanks!
Mary
Aarthi
Will share another recipe for baking. Not sure if you can bake in this recipe.
Susie
Do you know the nutrition facts like carbohydrates, fats, and protein amounts? Also what is the serving size? 1 cup? Thank you for your help.
Aarthi
will update the recipe
Dave
This was absolutely great!