These delicious chicken strips use Chinese flavours such as sweet chili sauce, soy sauce, and rice wine vinegar, giving both sweet and spicy flavours. They make a tasty appetiser or go very well with rice for dinner.
Serves 2
Ingredients:
Sauce-
- ¼ cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Chicken Strips-
- vegetable oil (for frying)
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast (sliced into strips)
- 1/3 cup butter milk
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- chopped green onions
- sesame seeds
Cooking instructions:
To prepare the sauce—
- In a medium saucepan combine the chicken broth, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sweet chili sauce, oil, sugar, and cornstarch. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until the sauce is slightly thickened. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- Heat oil in a deep fryer to 375 degrees. Pour buttermilk into a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, salt and pepper. Dip each chicken strip first into the buttermilk and then roll in the flour mixture until evenly coated.
- Place chicken strips into the hot oil, a few at a time and deep fry the chicken strips in batches until golden brown and the chicken is fully cooked (the internal temperature has reached 165 degrees). Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Immediately toss the chicken strips with the sauce. Garnish chicken strips with green onions and sesame seeds.
Recipe by kind permission of Blog Chef