Recipe: Honey Soy Basil Chicken
Delicious chicken stir-fry fragrant with basil and drench in a tasty sticky salty and sweet ginger-soy-honey sauce.
One of those easy comforting recipes to keep coming back to. Fresh ingredients, a short cooking time, and of course healthy. Serve with rice or noodles.
Honey Soy Basil Chicken
A delicious and easy stir-fry with perfectly balanced flavours of soy, honey and basil.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 200 gm chicken breast or thigh cut into thin slices
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 1 green pepper sliced into thin strips
- 2 spring onions cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 spring onion sliced very fine (to be used as garnish)
- 3 basil leaves chopped
- 1 red chilli
- Rice
Honey-Soy Sauce:
- 1 red chilli chopped fine
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 1 large knob ginger minced fine or grated
- 2 tbsp honey
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp boiling water
- 1/2 tsp cornflour
Instructions
- Prepare noodles or rice to packet instructions. Set aside.
- Combine honey-soy sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
- Coat chicken pieces in cornflour, shake off excess. Heat a good amount of vegetable oil in a frying pan or wok and cook chicken until just done (be careful not to brown). Remove, leaving oil in the pan and set chicken aside.
- Add vegetables to the oil, tossing around to keep the cooking motion even so vegetables don’t brown. After a few minutes add a splash of water to create steam, keep tossing vegetables until steam has evaporated, about a minute or so.
- Return chicken to the pan, pour the sauce into the centre and toss quickly to cover meat and vegetables evenly.
- Remove from heat and stir through basil. Transfer to bowls along with rice. Garnish with extra thinly sliced spring onion.
