Honey Soy Chicken

This honey soy chicken recipe creates beautifully tender bites of chicken in a rich and sticky sauce served simply with tender steamed broccoli and rice. This is the perfect weeknight dinner when you’re craving takeaway. It’s easy, healthy, dairy free and with a gluten free option.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 25

Total Time 40

Servings servings

Calories 648kcal

Author Sally

Ingredients

Sauce

⅓ cup honey
¼ cup soy sauce or tamari
1 teaspoon crushed ginger
2 cloves garlic crushed

Chicken

500 grams chicken thigh
¼ cup cornflour
2 eggs
1 tablespoon peanut oil for cooking

To serve

1 cup white rice
2 cups broccoli
sesame seeds optional
green onions (shallots) optional

Instructions

Get your rice started. Add rice and water to a rice cooker according to directions, or prep rice your usual way.
In a small bowl, mix all sauce ingredients together and set aside.
Chop up chicken thighs into 1.5inch sized pieces. Place in a large zip lock bag with the cornflour. Seal and shake until all chicken pieces are evenly coated.
In a frying pan, heat about a tablespoon of peanut oil.
While oil is heating, crack eggs into a shallow bowl and whisk. In batches, dip each piece of chicken into the egg, coating it completely before allowing any excess egg to drip off and placing the chicken piece into the hot pan being sure not to overcrowd it. Cook chicken on each side until golden. It’s ok if the chicken is not cooked through at this stage. Repeat until all chicken has been used, adding more oil if needed between batches.
Once all chicken is golden, use a paper towel to wipe out any excess oil from the pan before adding back in all the chicken pieces. Add in sauce and turn down heat to medium/low.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the chicken to make sure each piece is covered in the sauce. Allow to simmer on medium/low heat for about 10 minutes or until the sauce has become thick and sticky and the chicken is cooked all the way through. Take off the heat and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
While the chicken is cooking, lightly steam or boil your broccoli until just tender.
Serve chicken with cooked rice, broccoli and a sprinkle of sesame seeds and green onions.

Notes

Gluten Free Option: Make sure to use Tamari or a gluten free soy sauce.

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