Honey Chili Chicken

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 broiler chicken
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup water
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 4 teaspoons chinese chili sauce
• 2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1 1/2 teaspoons gingerroot, grated
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 6 green onions, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 remove giblets from chicken and discard.
• 2 rinse chicken and cut into small serving-size pieces.
• 3 combine flour and salt.
• 4 coat chicken pieces with flour mixture.
• 5 heat oil in wok to 375ºf.
• 6 add chicken pieces, one at a time, to hot oil (cook only 1/3 of the pieces at a time).
• 7 cook until golden, about 5 minutes.
• 8 drain on paper towels.
• 9 repeat with remaining chicken.
• 10 pour all but 1 tablespoon of the oil out of wok.
• 11 combine water, lemon juice, cornstarch, chili sauce and soy sauce.
• 12 add ginger to oil in wok.
• 13 stir-fry 1 minute.
• 14 add honey to ginger.
• 15 cook and stir 1 minute.
• 16 add cornstarch-chili mixture to honey and ginger.
• 17 cook and stir until mixture boils, about 1 minute.
• 18 stir chicken pieces into chili mixture.
• 19 cook and stir until chicken is hot throughout, about 3 minutes.
• 20 stir in onions.
• 21 cook and stir 1 minute.