Honey Glazed Chicken

Ingredients list for Honey Glazed Chicken

• 400 grams Boneless chicken cut into 1 inch pieces
• 4-5 Garlic cloves chopped
• to taste Salt
• 2 teaspoons Red chilli flakes
• 1 teaspoon Crushed black peppercorns
• 1½ tablesp teaspoons Cornflour/ corn starch
• 1 1/2 cups Chicken stock
• 2 tablespo for deep-frying Oil
• 3 tablespoons Honey
• 2 teaspoons Soy sauce
• 2 stalks Spring onion greens
• 1 tablespoon White sesame seeds toasted

Method

1. Put chicken, half the garlic, salt, half the red chilli flakes, half the crushed black peppercorns, one and half tablespoons cornflour and one tablespoon chicken stock in a bowl and mix well.
2. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai and deep-fry chicken till golden.
3. Heat oil in a non-stick wok, add remaining garlic and remaining red chilli flakes and sautétill the garlic turns golden brown. Add remaining chicken stock, honey, salt, remaining crushed black peppercorns and soy sauce and mix well.
4. Make slurry of remaining cornflour with two tablespoons water and add it to the pan to thicken the sauce.
5. Drain chicken and add to the sauce in the wok directly. Mix well till all the chicken pieces are well coatedwith the sauce.
6. Add spring onion greens reserving some for garnishing and mix.
7. Transfer into a serving bowl, garnish with reserved spring onion greens and sesame seeds and serve hot.