Fried Rice With Spicy Honey Chicken

Fried Rice With Spicy Honey Chicken

from foodtalkdaily.com
70 min

What is better on a Friday night than some take out from your favorite Chinese restaurant? Not much else in my opinion but since we can’t do that right now, we’…

Ingredients

  • 2 chicken breasts cubed
  • ⅓ cup cornstarch
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 tbsp sriracha
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 5 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 3 tbsp honey
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch mixed with 2 tbsp water
  • 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
  • 2 cup rice
  • 1 carrot peeled and chopped
  • 1 cup peas
  • 2 green onion chopped
  • ½ white onion chopped
  • 1 cup kimchi
  • 4 tbsp canola oil
  • 4 tbsp sesame oil
  • ¼ cup soy sauce
  • 5 tbsp butter
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste

Directions

  1. 1

    Cube chicken and place in zip lock bag

  2. 2

    Add ⅓ cup corn starch to chicken and mix well

  3. 3

    In sauce pan add water, sriracha, honey, soy, sugar, and garlic powder and whisk until sauce is to a boil

  4. 4

    Add the cornstarch/water mix to sauce to thicken

  5. 5

    In a new pan add oil (I used canola) and bring to high heat

  6. 6

    Add chicken to pan and bring down to medium heat

  7. 7

    Brown chicken. Once cooked, remove chicken from pan and place on paper towels or brown paper bag to crisp

  8. 8

    Add chicken to sauce and mix well. Top with crushed red pepper flakes

  9. 9

    Cook rice as directed on rice packaging

  10. 10

    Once rice is cooked, place on pan to cool

  11. 11

    After cooling for up to 5 minutes, put 2 tbsp canola oil and 2 tbsp sesame oil in wok or large skillet over medium head

  12. 12

    Add rice and let rice crisp up while adding salt and pepper

  13. 13

    After rice has browned and crispier remove rice from skillet and set to side

  14. 14

    In same wok or skillet add 2 tbsp canola oil 2 tbsp sesame oil and bring to up to temp over medium-high heat

  15. 15

    Add Carrots, Onions, Kimchi, 2 tbsp butter and peas into skillet and let cook while stirring for 4-5 minutes adding salt and pepper as needed

  16. 16

    Add in rice and continue to mix until sauce has been absorbed in rice.

  17. 17

    Add in soy sauce and continue to stir for 3-4 minutes