Sunday, March 19, 2006
Review: Sesame Chicken
Sesame Chicken
This turned out REALLY really yummy. In fact, it tasted pretty close to the sesame chicken we get at our favorite chinese restaurant.
I ended up practically doubling the teriyaki sauce, adding more honey and WAY more chinese five-spice powder and red pepper flakes. That made the sauce a little more "saucy" (initially, most of the sauce sort of cooked away, which is why I ended up adding more of everything) and it gave it a lot more flavor. This is a recipe that really lends itself to tweaking to your individual tastes.
Also, these kinds of recipes should just say, "... and cook the chicken the way you cook chicken." because as usual, the times were way off. I browned the chicken for a few minutes 5? 7? Removed it like the recipe said. Put in the onion and pepper... that took WAY more than 2 minutes to brown and cook. Then I put the chicken back in and put the cover on (leaving it on high, because the chicken was NOWHERE near cooked through yet) and let it go for another 5-6 minutes, added in the onions and peppers again and simmered it all for a little while. It turned out perfectly. So... my advice is: just cook the darn chicken however you are comfortable cooking it. It'll work.
I served it with basamati rice. Yum! Now I just need to find a good egg roll recipe. ;)
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This turned out REALLY really yummy. In fact, it tasted pretty close to the sesame chicken we get at our favorite chinese restaurant.
I ended up practically doubling the teriyaki sauce, adding more honey and WAY more chinese five-spice powder and red pepper flakes. That made the sauce a little more "saucy" (initially, most of the sauce sort of cooked away, which is why I ended up adding more of everything) and it gave it a lot more flavor. This is a recipe that really lends itself to tweaking to your individual tastes.
Also, these kinds of recipes should just say, "... and cook the chicken the way you cook chicken." because as usual, the times were way off. I browned the chicken for a few minutes 5? 7? Removed it like the recipe said. Put in the onion and pepper... that took WAY more than 2 minutes to brown and cook. Then I put the chicken back in and put the cover on (leaving it on high, because the chicken was NOWHERE near cooked through yet) and let it go for another 5-6 minutes, added in the onions and peppers again and simmered it all for a little while. It turned out perfectly. So... my advice is: just cook the darn chicken however you are comfortable cooking it. It'll work.
I served it with basamati rice. Yum! Now I just need to find a good egg roll recipe. ;)
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