INGREDIENTS:

3 chicken breast - cut to bite size pieces
1 tablespoon light soy sauce (Kikkoman)
1 tablespoon cooking wine, Dry Sherry or Port
1/2 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon sugar
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Kosher or Sea salt - to taste
Fresh ground black peppercorns (Tellicherry) - to taste

SAUCE:

6 tablespoons sweet chili sauce (Frank's Red Hot Sweet Chili Sauce)
4 tablespoons  tomato ketchup
3 - 4 tablespoons honey - to taste
2 tablespoon oyster sauce
4 tablespoons light soy sauce - Kikkoman Less Sodium Soy Sauce
1/2 cup water
Toasted sesame seed

Marinate chicken with soy sauce, wine, sugar, sesame oil, salt and pepper and refrigerate for at least three hours.  Mix flour and cornstarch together in a plastic zip lock type bag and place chicken pieces in bag and shake around to evenly coat the chicken pieces.  In a heavy-bottomed pot or deep-fryer,  heat enough oil to come halfway up the sides of the pot, to 350 degrees F.  Fry chicken until golden brown; remove and drain on paper towels.  Mix all the sauce ingredients together in a large bowl and place in a large skillet over medium heat and bring to a boil and allow sauce to thicken.  Add the chicken pieces to the skillet and gently toss until the chicken is evenly coated with the sauce.  Sprinkle sesame seeds over the chicken and serve with your favorite rice and and/or side dishes.  Below honey sesame chicken served with yellow rice, carrots and broccoli n cheese casserole.

YIELD:  4 servings

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This is a very easy generic recipe to do with minimal ingredients, yet is a quality Chinese restaurant dish.   I left out at least one sequence pix of the chicken in the honey sauce, my bad!  I could have cubed the chicken into smaller pieces which deep fries much quicker too!

My bride went back for seconds on the honey sesame chicken today and it was a winner!  I got away from the traditional broccoli and substituted my broccoli cheese casserole of which was outstanding to say the least.  I used Frank's Red Hot Sweet Chili Sauce which was not that hot but it does have the right amount of kick to it but any quality Sweet Chili Sauce will do fine.  I tasted the sauce to tweak the amount of honey and about 4 tablespoons of local harvested fresh honey was used.

Use this optional traditional sweet and sour sauce recipe if desired.  Open hyperlink for the recipe.

Web posted by Bill aka Mickey Porter 07-22-12.

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