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By recipetineats.com

Built-to-last CRISPY Honey Chicken

Prep:20minCook:30min

Recipe video above. This recipe brings together a plethora of Asian cooking secrets for a crispy chicken that stays crispy for 4+ hrs even after tossing with sauce:1. Double coating - dredge in cornflour/cornstarch followed by batter2. Cold batter made with soda water = crispier chicken that's puffy and light, not dense and greasy3. Cornflour/cornstarch + flour batter - cornflour for ultra crispiness, flour for golden colour + baking powder lift4. Double fry for extra long lasting, thicker crispiness AND less greasy (Asian secret!)5. No-Soggy Sauce - glucose or corn syrup to make it "candy like" to stick on chicken crust rather than soaking in, plus NO WATER in the sauce.See Notes for make ahead (99% like freshly made).

Updated at: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:50:59 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

69

Moderate

Glycemic Load

42

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories1327.1 kcal (66%)

Total Fat115.6 g (165%)

Carbs55.9 g (21%)

Sugars27.1 g (30%)

Protein18.2 g (36%)

Sodium595 mg (30%)

Fiber1 g (4%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

4 servings

300gchicken thighs

skinless boneless, cut into 2.5cm/1" pieces

1 Tbsplight soy sauce

or all purpose, not dark soy

2 tspchinese cooking wine

2 tspcornflour

½ cupcornflour

6 Tbspcornflour

4 Tbspflour

plain/all purpose

7 Tbspsoda water

cold, club soda, or seltzer water, not sparkling mineral water

¼ tspbaking powder

not baking soda

kosher, cooking, halve for table salt

2 cupsvegetable oil

⅓ cuphoney

or corn syrup, light

1 Tbsplight soy sauce

2 tspchinese cooking wine

or more soy sauce

25gvermicelli rice noodles

optional, a wad of it, not bean noodles, must be rice noodles

Instructions

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Notes

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1 disliked

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Delicious

Sweet

Special occasion

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Amanda· last year

Better than anything from a takeaway. Crunchy and sweet without being over powering. Absolute winner!

tintinhall tintinhall· 2 years ago

Special occasion

Love this! Hard to decide whether I prefer this over the general tsuos chicken, it's so crispy and sweet! Lots of crunchyness. We couldn't find glucose/corn syrup anywhere, so we substituted 1:1 with honey. Next time I will only substitute it as 1:0.25, since it may have been a tad too sweet and honey-like. Overall, such a delicious recipe! You can leave it to eat the next day but it looses crispiness, still tasty. It's quite messy and takes a while to make, but all worth it. I made it for 6 servings but my mum and I devoured it for dinner over two days.

Love this! Hard to decide whether I prefer this over the general tsuos chicken, it's so crispy and sweet! Lots of crunchyness.

We couldn't find glucose/corn syrup anywhere, so we substituted 1:1 with honey. Next time I will only substitute it as 1:0.25, since it may have been a tad too sweet and honey-like.

Overall, such a delicious recipe! You can leave it to eat the next day but it looses crispiness, still tasty. It's quite messy and takes a while to make, but all worth it. I made it for 6 servings but my mum and I devoured it for dinner over two days.

Fu(kilove Food· 3 years ago

I love this recipie. It takes some prep but it is always worth the pay-off. It's really easy even a drunk like me can do it. Usually I serve it it carrot, onion and broccoli but I'm yet to do food shopping, so I will update this review when I make it next. The only thing is I need more water in the batter (maybe because I use gf flour?) I also just use soy and honey in the sauce. It is effing delicious. You can always grill the chicken and enjoy it less if you're pretending to be healthy.

I love this recipie. It takes some prep but it is always worth the pay-off. It's really easy even a drunk like me can do it. Usually I serve it it carrot, onion and broccoli but I'm yet to do food shopping, so I will update this review when I make it next. The only thing is I need more water in the batter (maybe because I use gf flour?) I also just use soy and honey in the sauce. It is effing delicious. You can always grill the chicken and enjoy it less if you're pretending to be healthy.

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