How to Make Crispy Battered Chicken in Honey Sauce (or Honey and Chili Sauce)
By Iontach
Mmmm isn’t food from the local Chinese/Asian take away just amazing, I certainly think so! I’m a self confessed ‘Asian food aholic’, ordering more than one take away a week. It costs me a fortune that I don’t have.
So one day I decided that I’d try to re-create any Chinese meal I ate. I began by analysing all the tastes and possible ingredients in the food I was eating and through trial and error I re-created a few recipes of my favourite dishes.
Battered Chicken in a Honey Sauce (Shredded chicken) was one of my favourites I began cooking at home. (Also called crispy shredded chicken…) It is also quite an easy chicken recipe to follow.
One day I was in my favourite local Chinese with my best friend Sarah, while we were eating our favourite dish. That’s when we had the realisation that the vital ingredient in their amazing Honey sauce was, you may think...wait it’s honey, right?! NO! It was Golden Syrup.
I know right, Golden Syrup, why don’t they just call it Battered chicken in Golden syrup sauce? Well maybe it doesn’t sound that appetising I suppose.
I shall now write out a list of ingredients you’ll need to create this delicious dish. You may follow this chicken recipe or tweak it to your liking.
Step 1 – Make the Batter
I generally roughly estimate the quantities for the batter and it turns out fine. If you want to alter my batter recipe feel free, it’s the sauce that needs to be strict.
- Add Plain flour and Corn Flour into mixing bowl and mix in a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Next add 1 egg and mix thoroughly.
- Now add just enough warm water to the Batter mixture to produce a thick consistency. The batter should be able to run off the end of a spoon.
- It you want to add more colour and a bit of taste to the batter, you can also add a little soy sauce.
Step 2 – Chop and Batter Chicken
- Chop the chicken into thin strips or into cubes.
- Cover the chicken in a generous amount of batter and if you like sprinkle some plain flour on top to make more crispy when fried.
- Now you can either Shallow fry (in Wok) or Deep fry (in Deep fat fryer) the battered chicken. You can just use pure vegetable oil or sunflower oil for this, but if you want you could add a little peanut or sesame oil to the veg/sunflower oil to give a little extra flavour. If shallow frying, make sure to constantly move the battered chicken so it doesn’t stick to wok.
- When batter turns a light golden brown, remove chicken from oil and let drain on top of some tissue.
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Step 3 – Make the Honey Sauce (or Honey and Chili Sauce)
- Cut the Garlic clove up very finely as well as ginger (optional), lemon grass (optional) and Chili (optional – don’t use too much).
- Fry Garlic etc… in a little oil (peanut, veg. or sunflower) for a bit and then add the Cup of water.
- Now its time to add the Golden syrup and Honey. Add more Golden syrup to the mixture than Honey. Add as much as you want and constantly taste the sauce to make sure it’s to your liking. I generally like my sauce to be a runny so I don’t add too much of each, but it’s up to you!
- Let the Sauce boil a little until it starts to thicken slightly. Also if you think you made too much sauce or just want it stronger and thicker, keep boiling it so it reduces a bit.
- Now it’s time to add the previously cooked battered chicken to the sauce in the pan/wok. Mix everything thoroughly and let sauce soak into the batter for a minute.
- Your dish is ready! Arrange your chicken on top of some fried or plain rice, pour over your Honey sauce and sprinkle as much sesame seeds as you like on top.
Congratulations, you have now created your at home Chinese take away. Bon Appetite!
I do hope you liked this simple at home chicken recipe.
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Comments
Hay Emily! Yey my first comment on this hub :)
This recipe is very simple and you should try it! It's good comfort food if you just want a spoil yourself day. :P
I'll deffo be putting up more recipes on Hubpages, among other stuff hopefully, and you better be putting up some more of your poems!
Dave
this looks delicious i can't wait to give it a try
Hi Jenesmith01! I hope you do, It's really yummy :) Make sure to use chili if you like chili!
yummy,,so nice hub, looking very delicious ..
Beautifully executed hub and great photos! I especially loved the parchment for the recipe, good idea! A man who can actually cook AND write,mmmm...yummy:))
Awwwww Thanks Kamran and Parduc! What lovely comments :)
Thank you parduc for your compliment about the parchment, that took me while! I use paint do do all those parchments.
I think a lot of men can actually cook, but they just couldn't be bothered...:P
Great chicken recipes, and a beautifully laid-out hub! Thanks so much!
Cheers RedElf! I'm so fussy with my layout so thanks :)
Make sure to try this recipe it's pretty yummy :P
Nicely done...makes my mouth water!
Is this the dish many Chinese restaurants call General Tsoe's Chicken? Sweet and spicy hits the spot. :{)
CP
Hi Christopher!
Thanks for the compliment :) Ermmm...No I don't think its called General Tsoe's Chicken?! Does that dish have honey or golden syrup in it? Sweet and spicy is D'Best:P
Dave
There is excitement on the air in the Land of the Midnight Hubnuggets! Yummy yummy recipe....hmmmmm....now I'm getting hungry Iontach! LOL Will try this out!
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I have a very important question for you... where do you buy "Golden Syrup"?
I'm much too poor a cook to even attempt this, but my husband, thank God, can cook. This looks so good I tried to take a bite. Computer screens are not good for your canines. I don't know if you knew that, thought I'd be a champ and pass it on just in case.
Great hub!!
You have my vote!
Haha Ripplemaker! I hope you try this out! Tis pretty yummy alright :P
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Hi Sueroy333! Thank you so much for your comment and vote :)
I need as many as I can get, arrggg.
Did you actually bite your computer screen? lol you're mad alright. haha
Well I'm pretty sure you can get Golden syrup in most supermarkets? Maybe I'n the US it has a different name...If you type in 'lyle's golden syrup' in google you may recognise it or find out where to buy it...But I wouldn't know where to buy it in Indiana..lol
Cheers and Good luck!
Iontach
Looks so ono! (that means delicious in Hawaii) Thanks for sharing the recipe - I'll have to try it. I do love Chinese food. Congrats on the nomination also.
Thanks Elayne001! Ono, ok i'll remember that! lol
I hope you do try itm i'ts yum comfort food :) Please Vote for me if ya can :)
Cheers,
Iontach
The recipe looks easy and the pictures are mouth watering. Congrats on your nomination.
Awww cheers Pamela! I'm very happy with the nomination :) Hopefully I win!
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Iontach
I am definitely going to try this recipe. I love chicken, especially asian food. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think you have saved me from culinary insanity. My husband and I moved to rural Brazil over a year ago. Many a time, we have longed for a Chinese takeaway. So now, it's on with the pinny, recipe in hand.
I can't wait to try it.
Hay Blond Logic! Well i hope you think it tastes like a normal chinese! Rural Brazil? - Voce e loca da cabaeca?
I'd love to go to Brazil, i can even speak a tiny bit of portuguese.
Good luck!!!
Cheers,
Dave
I like Chinese food. Thanks for sharing this recipe. You made the instructions pretty easy to follow. I just need to look for that Golden Sauce and I'll try this out.
Congrats on your Hubnugget nomination.
I love mexico food and I don't know who don't love it but I do.
Emily40 16 months ago
I dont really eat all different types of meat but chicken! Anytime anyhow lol.
Great recipe, you know if i ever do get married i want a man who could cook like you!
Cause am really not the cooking type and dont really know those kool recipes but i love to full my belly with it. please post some more of those delicious recipes. Sounds yummy!