Honey Chicken

Honey chicken is a popular Chinese dish served in restaurants or take-out stands.  The sauce combines honey, brown sugar, and soy sauce. The Chicken is coated with the sweet honey sauce and cooked until it thickens.  This dish adds more calories to the restaurant because the Chicken is deep-fried and then added to the sauce.  I like to make this dish at home to control the sweetness and oil, making it healthier to consume.  Even though people think honey chicken is a typical Chinese dish, it is more like an adaptation of Thai and Vietnamese.  You can add some vegetables, such as broccoli or bell pepper, to enhance the flavor of this dish.

Ingredients:

4 chicken thighs, bone removed

Marinade ingredients:

1 tsp minced garlic clove

1 tsp minced ginger

2 green onions (separate the white and the green parts and slice)

1 tbsp cornstarch

1 tbsp oil

Sauce ingredients:

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp chicken powder

1 tsp Chinese cooking wine

1/4 tsp black pepper and chili flakes

1/2 cup water

Directions:

Use a knife to slash the chicken a few times to allow the marinade to absorb easily.  Rub the garlic, ginger, and white part of the five onion into the chicken. Then add cornstarch and oil and mix well. The Chicken can marinate for 30 minutes.

Combine the sauce's ingredients in a mixing bowl, then mix well.

Add 2 tbsp oil to a wok under medium-high heat.  Add the Chicken skin side down, cook until brown.  Flip to the meat side, and cook for a few minutes.

Add the sauce to the wok and cook until the sauce is thickened. Add the green part of the onions to the Chicken and turn the heat off.

Serve with steamed rice.