Sweet and Spicy Chinese Chicken

Very tasty, juicy, fast, appetizing, for dinner! Chinese sweet chicken tastes like Teriyaki. This is a spicy, aromatic, rich, satisfying dish that is suitable for serving for lunch or dinner. It’s very easy to prepare and quite quick!
cook time: 40 min
Logan Winslow
Sweet and Spicy Chinese Chicken

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

121
Calories
6g
Fat
17g
Carbs
12g
Protein

Ingredients (3 portions)

Basic:

Garlic 1 clove
Salt to taste
Honey 1 tsp
Carrot 1 pc
Bulb onions 1 pc
Starch 1 tsp
Apple vinegar 1 tsp
Soy sauce 150 ml
Chicken thighs 400 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make Chinese sweet chicken? Prepare all the necessary products. You can use any chicken parts, with or without bones. Both thighs and breasts are perfect. If necessary, defrost the chicken in advance. Ideally, rice vinegar, but you can use apple or wine vinegar. Use naturally fermented soy sauce. Now there are a lot of cheap fakes of soy sauce, I advise you to take a more expensive, but natural one.

Step 2

Step 2
Wash the chicken well, cut into medium-sized pieces. You can remove the skin and bones, or you can leave them in.

Step 3

Step 3
Transfer chicken to a separate bowl. Pour soy sauce over the chicken and leave for 10-15 minutes until it is well soaked.

Step 4

Step 4
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. It can be absolutely anything: from ordinary sunflower to elite olive. The only condition: if you are going to fry in this oil, then it must be refined. Otherwise it will burn. Add the chicken to the pan and quickly fry it over fairly high heat.

Step 5

Step 5
Peel the onion and cut into thin feathers. Wash the carrots, peel and cut into thin strips. You can cut the carrots by hand, or you can use a special grater or processor for cutting into strips.

Step 6

Step 6
First add carrots to the chicken in the pan, fry them over low heat for about 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly.

Step 7

Step 7
Add chopped onion to carrots and stir. Grind the garlic: you can grate it or put it through a press, but I just chopped it with a knife. Add garlic to the pan as well. Reduce heat and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

Step 8

Step 8
Pour vinegar into the meat and vegetables, add honey. Stir.

Step 9

Step 9
Dissolve starch in 50 ml of cold water. It can be anything: potato or corn. Since starch is used here to thicken the dish, it can be replaced with flour.

Step 10

Step 10
Pour starch and water into the pan.

Step 11

Step 11
Simmer the dish on the stove for about 5-7 minutes until the sauce thickens. Add salt at the very end. Keep in mind that soy sauce is quite salty, so donʼt overdo it!

Step 12

Step 12
Serve Chinese sweet chicken on its own or with a side dish (rice is ideal!). Bon appetit!

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