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Easy Sesame Chicken
This Easy Sesame Chicken recipe is faster and tastier than takeout. Tender chicken coated in a homemade sweet, savory, and tangy sauce. The post Easy Sesame Chicken appeared first on Budget Bytes.
This Easy Sesame Chicken recipe is so easy that you’ll be tempted to toss those take-out menus (seriously, I can’t remember the last time I ordered sesame chicken since I first posted this recipe nearly 12 years ago!!) The deliciously sweet and savory sauce takes only a few ingredients, all of which you can keep on hand indefinitely (I always keep my ginger in the freezer). You know, just in case you need some of this chicken, like, now. Oh, and this take-out fake-out recipe is one of my favorites in my weekly meal prep, too.
“Um, wow. Just fantastic. My husband made it in his cast iron skillet and we doubled the batch – we’re sad we didn’t triple it! So easy and tasty!” Mary Farrow
Easy Sesame Chicken Recipe
If you’re unfamiliar with this Chinese-American fast food classic, sesame chicken is small pieces of tender chicken that have been coated in an egg and cornstarch, deep-fried until crispy, and then coated in a deliciously sweet, salty, and tangy sauce. The sauce also has a light but toasty flavor, thanks to sesame seeds.
However, I specifically wrote this recipe for those of you out there who hate deep frying as much as I do. My recipe uses a very small amount of oil to cook the chicken, and because of that, you don’t get super crispy edges as you would with a deep fry…but the trade-off is WELL worth it, in my opinion. No leftover oil to deal with, no cooking oil smell filling your house, and no splattering oil trying to kill you. So worth sacrificing crispy edges (and it’s just as delicious!)
