Name: Chicken Strips in Thickened Sauce
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 3 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp honey; 1 tsp sesame oil; 2 cloves garlic crushed; 1 tsp fresh ginger; 2 chicken breasts (about 1 lb); 1 tbsp canola oil; 1 tsp cornmeal; 2 tbsp water

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Soy-Honey Sauce

1
In a small bowl, mix the soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, garlic and ginger.
Bowl
💡Honey balances the saltiness of the soy and caramelizes over heat: on the grill it gives a browned crust, and in a pan a glossy sauce.

To assemble

2
Slice the chicken into strips 1 cm thick.
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3
Heat the oil in a pan over high heat. Fry the chicken strips in batches 3–4 minutes, until golden.
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💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
4
Add the sauce for the pan and bring to a boil.
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5
Mix the cornstarch and water, add to the sauce and cook 2 minutes more, until the sauce thickens and coats the chicken.
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💡Mix the starch with cold water before it goes into the hot sauce: dry starch clumps instantly.
6
Serve immediately and sprinkle.

239calories

30 gprotein

11 gcarbs

8 gfat

● protein 50%● carbs 19%● fat 31%

Per serving (166 g), of 4 servings

For the Soy-Honey Sauce · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

Soy sauce: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 18 g · 53 kcal per 100 g · More about Soy sauce →
Honey: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 21 g · 304 kcal per 100 g · More about Honey →
Sesame oil: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 4.5 g · 884 kcal per 100 g · More about Sesame oil →
Garlic: measured in pieces: one ≈ 5 g · 149 kcal per 100 g · More about Garlic →
Fresh ginger: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 5 g · 80 kcal per 100 g · More about Fresh ginger →
Chicken breast: measured in pieces: one ≈ 200 g · 120 kcal per 100 g · More about Chicken breast →
Canola oil: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 14 g · 884 kcal per 100 g · More about Canola oil →
Cornmeal: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 4.7 g · 361 kcal per 100 g · More about Cornmeal →
Water: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 15 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Water →

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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🧩 Parts

Soy-Honey Sauce: Soy-Honey Sauce

⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: Tofu pressed under a weight (minutes) (20) · Cutting into cubes at this step (into medium cubes) · Flour and egg coating · Egg in the coating · Salt and pepper in the coating · Turmeric in the coating · Deep-frying · Sweet chili sauce in the sauce · Hot chili sauce in the sauce · Mustard in the sauce · Lemon juice in the sauce · Tomato paste in the sauce · Ketchup in the sauce · Sugar in the sauce · salt · black pepper · Chicken marinated in the sauce (30 minutes) · Red pepper · Yellow pepper · Green pepper · onion · carrot · Mushrooms · Fried garlic · Fried ginger · Chili pepper · Cornstarch · Water for the starch · Cherry tomatoes at the end · Basil at the end · Cooked rice for serving · Toasted sesame on top · Green onion on top · Cilantro on top
What the sauce coats: the chicken
Vessel the sauce is added to: for the pan