Crispy Honey Chilli Chicken - Khin's Kitchen (2024)

The best Honey Chilli Chicken recipe, made with fried chicken strips tossed with delicious spicy-sweet, honey chilli sauce. You can create Chinese takeaway-style crispy honey chilli chicken at home with simple ingredients!

Honey chilli chicken is very popular in the UK, US, Chinese restaurants and takeaways. In this recipe, I'll be sharing our version of crispy fried chicken with honey chilli sauce from scratch.

Creating takeout dishes from scratch can be quite challenging when you recreate them at home. But this recipe does not need any special ingredients, equipment, or cooking skills. It is so much tastier and easier than you have imagined. Every home cook can make it happen without much hassle!

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What do we need

• Chicken - We usually use chicken breast for this recipe. Cut the chicken into same size thin strips. You can swap with chicken thigh, beef, pork, or prawns.
• Chicken Marinade - Simply season the chicken pieces with soy sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, sugar and garlic paste.
• Coating - Break one egg white in the chicken to create a layer to keep the chicken moist and tender. Coat the chicken strips with corn starch or potato starch for extra crunch.
• Garnish - Simply garish with fresh chilli slices, chopped spring onions or coriander. If you like sesame flavour, sprinkle some toasted sesame seeds.

• Chilli sauce - I add Sriracha chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, lime juice, honey and dried chilli flakes. As this chilli sauce mixture is very versatile, you can reduce the chilli sauce and chilli flakes amount according to your taste.
• Sriracha - Thai hot chilli sauce Sriracha is ideal for this recipe. If you cannot get it easily, you can use any of your favourite hot chilli sauce or Thai sweet chilli sauce as an substitute.
• Tomato ketchup - Add tomato ketchup for the sweet and tangy flavour.
• Honey - To blance the hot chilli flavour add honey or brown sugar.

How to make honey chilli chicken from scratch

• First, combine all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set it aside. Slice the chicken breast into same size thin strips. Marinade with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic paste, sugar and white pepper for at least 10 to 15 minutes.

• Next, add one egg white into the chicken and mix it well. Then add the corn starch and coat each chicken pieces until separate. Add more corn starch if needed.
• Heat the oil into high heat about 350 F, fry the coated chicken strips for 1-2 minutes until light brown. Then remove from oil and set it aside on the cooling rack for 4-5 minutes.
• Then double fry it again until crispy golden.

• Heat the large wok/pan into medium-low heat, drizzle oil and saute the chopped garlic for few seconds.
• Pour the chilli sauce mixture in and stir for few seconds to heat up the sauce.
• Place the fried chicken strips in the wok and toss well to combine everything evenly with the sauce.
• Turn off the heat and sprinkle chilli slices and chopped spring onions.

Cooking tips

• It's important to fry with high-heat to prevent the chicken strips from getting greasy and soggy. You can check the oil temperature with food thermometer. If you don't have it in hand, use wooden spatula or chopstick to test. Dip the wooden chopstick/spatula in the hot oil, when the oil steadily bubbling it's ready to fry.
• Do not overcooked the chicken strips. Overcooked chicken strips can be tough and chewy.
• Use vegetable oil or neutral flavour oils for deep frying because they do not overpower the dish flavour.
• To prep-ahead, fry the chicken strips 2-3 minutes, then you can store in fridge or freeze with air tight bags. Make the sauce and keep it in and air-tight jar once it cool down. Deep fry the chicken strips 2nd time just right before serving and heat the sauce until hot, then toss well to combine together.

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