In today’s edition of making cooking easy for you, we share a super simple recipe for sticky sesame chicken. This dish makes for a light snack as you won’t need to fry the chicken.
Apart from our three meals, we crave for something delicious in between. But when it comes to snacks, most of the time the options are either fried food or chips. Not anymore. Today, we share with you a delicious and healthy recipe for baked chicken. Read on to know how we make sticky sesame chicken at home.
Check out the ingredients you’ll need for the sticky sesame chicken
| Chicken breast | 500 gms |
| Garlic (chopped) | 2 tsp |
| Ginger (chopped) | 1/2 tsp |
| Lemon juice | 2 tsp |
| Black pepper | As per taste |
| Salt | As per taste |
| Ajwain or Trachyspermum ammi | 1 tsp |
| Cornflour | 1/2 cup |
| Curd | 1 tbsp |
| Oil | 1 tsp |
| Brown sugar | 1 tsp |
| Vinegar | 1/2 cup |
| Schezwan sauce | As per taste |
| Tomato ketchup | 1 tsp |
| Toasted sesame seeds | 1 tsp |
Follow this method to make the sticky sesame chicken
Start with marinating the chicken. In a clean bowl, put the chicken and add chopped ginger and garlic followed by lemon juice, ajwain, cornflour, salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients together and then, add curd and mix again. Let the chicken marinate for one hour minimum.
Line a baking tray with foil and put the chicken on it after dusting the breasts with cornflour. Bake the chicken in a preheated over for 20-25 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
While the chicken gets ready, prepare the sauce. In a pan, heat some oil and put in chopped garlic. Then, add white vinegar, brown sugar and schezwan sauce and let it come to boil. Now, add tomato ketchup, salt and sesame seeds. Let the sauce boil.
Once the chicken is cooked, put it in the pan and coat it with the sauce. And, your simple evening snack is ready.
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