Honey Glazed Chicken

This Chinese main course is a blend of sweet and spicy....play with the quantity to suite your taste!!!! Reduce the quantity of stock and have it as starter....if you are a veggie add your favourite veggies!!!

Ingredients:

250 gms Chicken boneless, bite size pieces

1 spring onion greens, roughly chopped

2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

1/2 chicken stock cube, mixed in 1 cup of water

2 tsp red chilli flakes

2 tsp honey

1/2 tsp white pepper powder

2 tsp cornstarch

1 tsp soya sauce

1 tbsp oil

1 tsp roasted sesame seeds

salt to taste

oil for deep frying

Method:

• Wash and clean the chicken. Pat dry the chicken.
• Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the chicken pieces till done. Drain on an absorbent paper.
• In the chicken stock mix soya sauce, white pepper powder, cornstarch and salt.
• Heat a kadai on high heat and add oil. Add garlic and saute. Add the red chilli flakes and saute well. Add the chicken stock blended with other spices. Cook till the sauce thickens.
• Add the fried chicken and mix well.
• Add honey and cook for sometime.
• Turn the flame off and garnish with toasted sesame seeds and spring onion green and serve hot with rice or noodles.

Tips:

• You can also used chicken stock, but somehow i feel stock cubes way convenient.
• In case you are using Indian stock cube you may need to increase the quantity to double. Any imported brand the amount given above will suffice.
• Do not overdo the honey or else it will make the sauce too sweet. Try with 1 tsp and gradually increase to suite your taste.
• you can have this as a dry item too. Decrease the quantity of stock.
• you can increase the amount of chilli flakes for added spice!