Chicken With Honey Recipe

How To Cook Chicken  With Honey Recipe

Chicken  With Honey Recipe INGREDIENTS:

• 1.5 kg chicken legs and thighs
• 6 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
• Half a head of garlic, minced
• 1 240ml can pineapple juice
• 5 teaspoons cornstarch, dissolved in 1 cup water
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 3 tablespoons white cane vinegar (apple cider vinegar works too)
• A dash of cinnamon
• 2 pieces star anise
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• ½ cup honey (or more, to taste)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Heat 3 tablespoons vegetable oil in a nonstick pan over medium heat. Searthe chicken on both sides, until it begins to brown, around 5 – 10 minutes on each side. You might need to do this in batches.
2. Make the sauce: Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a large sauce pan (large enough to hold the chicken pieces as well) over medium heat. Add theminced garlic and allow to fry until fragrant but not burnt. Add the pineapple juice and the cornstarch mixture. Mix well.
3. Add the rest of the sauce ingredients and stir everything together over medium heat until the sauce thickens. Adjust the seasoning to your preference.
4. Lower the heat and add in the chicken and cook, covered, for 30 – 45 minutes or until chicken is cooked tender.
5. In the last 5 minutes of cooking, increase the heat to high and cook until the sauce has reduced, thickened and is slightly sticky. Frequently stir everything together to stop it from burning. When done remove from heat and serve warm. Enjoy!

Preparation:

This is time consuming and makes a lot, if you don't need so much halve the recipe.!!
If you can plan ahead, I recommend chopping up the chicken and preparing the batter early to reduce the amount of time needed. I also make my fried rice a day before, not only for better flavour, but it can be hectic making fried rice and the honey chicken If you don't allocate enough prep time.

1) Cut the chicken breast into small chunks, not too large as the batter will burn before the chicken is cooked through.

2) Add the water (275 grams) and egg to the jug and mix 10 sec speed 5 to combine. Add the SR flour (150 grams) salt and pepper to the jug. Mix 30 sec speed 5 to combine to a smooth batter. Pour batter into a large bowl. Set aside.
Add oil to a large pan, deep enough to shallow fry the chicken, or alternatively if you have a deep fryer, heat that up to 180'C.

While oil is heating:

3) Coat chicken in the corn flour. Once all the chicken is coated in the cornflour, then dip into the batter and immediately place into the hot oil. Place a few pieces in at a time.
Dont over crowd the pan as this will reduce the temperature of the oil too much, esp if you are shallow frying in a pan.
Turn chicken until the batter is golden and evenly cooked. Test a piece of chicken to ensure it is cooked thoroughly. Remove and place onto paper towel to drain excess oil. Continue frying chicken.
(You can place the chicken on a tray on LOW in the oven to keep warm whilst cooking the remaining chicken)

4) Once you have fried all the chicken, have it ready next to you to place into the honey sauce as you need to work quickly not to burn the honey.
Place the oil and honey in a large pan on a medium heat to gently simmer, stir gently, once the honey starts to bubble, throw all the chicken in the fry pan and gently toss to coat in the honey sauce. Be careful not to be too rough so the batter doesn't fall off.

5) Once the chicken is evenly coated, sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve immediately. Enjoy.!!

Source : The Hungry Giant
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