Using a slotted spoon, lift chicken from marinade and add to dry coating. Dry Coat (Bread) Chicken : In a plastic bag or large bowl, add all of the dry coating ingredients. Whisk until sugar is fully dissolved and corn starch is lump free. Prepare Ingredients for Sauce : In a small bowl, mix all Sesame Chicken sauce ingredients with half of grated ginger remaining from the marinade. You can marinate chicken a night before cooking. Marinate for at least 30 minutes, up to overnight. Marinate Chicken : In a medium bowl, add diced chicken, soy sauce, vinegar, egg white, and half of ginger. Heat until sees are slightly toasted about 1 min. Place sesame seeds in a small dry skillet. Prepare Ingredients for Sesame Chicken : Dice chicken into bite size pieces. Make some Broccoli Jasmine Rice and this homemade crispy Seasme Chicken. Broccoli Rice (I served Sesame Chicken with Broccoli Rice today.)įriends, now you can make Chinese restaurant's favorite Sesame Chicken at home.Serve one of the following tasty sides with Sesame Chicken. It sticks to the flavorfully crispy breading chicken, making Seasme Chicken lip-smacking delicious. Sesame Chicken Sauce is easy to assemble, is sweet and sticky.Sesame Chicken is extra crispy with help of flour and baking powder.Marinating the chicken before breading seasons and tenderizes chicken breast from with-in.This Sesame Chicken recipe is extra flavorful because: Cut a little big bite size piece of chicken. Tip: Use same recipe to make Seasme Chicken Bites. I would use 1-2 tbsp more than quantity listed for sugar. If you like even more sticky sauce? Simply replace sugar in the sauce ingredients with the honey. This Sesame Chicken Sauce recipe is already sweet, thick, and sticky. Garnish with scallions and toasted Sesame Seeds. Follows the complete list of ingredients to make the sauce.Ĭook the sauce until it bubbles, add fried chicken and coat in the fragrant sesame sauce. Seasme Chicken Sauce is mix of easy to find pantry ingredients. Once chicken is ready, next make Seasme Chicken Sauce. As a result, fried Seasme Chicken has extra crispy breading. I use two additional ingredients to make crispy Seasme Chicken i.e., Baking Powder and All-Purpose Flour.Įgg White, Corn Starch with baking powder crisp the flour as chicken is fried in hot oil. The traditional Asian bread chicken use only corn starch. To make breaded chicken, dry coat (dredge) the marinated chicken in breading mix of corn flour, all-purpose flour and baking powder. This helps infuse chicken with lots of flavor. To make Seasme Chicken, start with marinating chicken in soy, ginger and sesame marinade. For these pictures, I made Broccoli Jasmine Rice. I also recommend trying Coconut Rice. Specially the Jasmine Rice such as plain steamed rice. This recipe also works great to serve finger-food appetizer such as Seasme Chicken Bites/Nuggets.įor takeout -style dinner, I love to serve Sesame Chicken with rice. There is double dose of sesame: 1) seasme oil in the sauce, 2) and toasted sesame seeds on top. The main difference is Seasme Chicken is sweeter and has more pronounced seasme flavor. Seasme Chicken is very similar to Orange Chicken or General Tao's Chicken. In Sesame Chicken, chicken is breaded and fried until crispy and then is coated in Sesame Sauce made with sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar or honey and vinegar. Oh, if you love Asian take-out, I'm sure you will enjoy these recipes on the blog: Thai Basil Chicken, Orange Chicken, Teriyaki Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pineapple Chicken. This is my tired and tested method to make perfect crispy breading any time, for any recipe.

I'm sharing a simple, always-in-pantry ingredient that will make chicken breading extra crispy. This recipe makes crispy breaded Seasme Chicken. I relied on my trusted recipe and made a lot of this Sesame Chicken during lockdown time. It always transports me to my favorite local Chinese take-out restaurant. Really, kitchen is filled with the aroma of Asian flavors of seasme, soy, ginger as Seasme Chicken cooks with the sauce. Sharing today an easy Sesame Chicken recipe that makes crispy, sweet, sticky, and finger-licking good Sesame Chicken! Crispy fried chicken coated in sweet and sticky Sesame Sauce with sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds and you have a delicious take-out classic chicken dinner, homemade from the scratch (including the step photos).

Dong tao chicken dish