When I was a kid we used to get Chinese food very rarely. It was always a super awesome treat for birthdays or Mother's Day. When I moved to the middle of nowhere a few years ago there was no local Chinese food shop to go to so I wasn't even able to have it on special occasions! There were times when I dreamt of honey chicken, no really, dreamt! Eventually I came to my senses and realised - it's chicken and honey.....how hard can it be?!
My Fried Rice & Honey Chicken
Rice
2 eggs
2 bacon rashers
1/2 cup peas
1/2 cup corn
1-2 tablespoons soy sauce
Chicken breast
1 cup flour
1 cup water
Vegetable oil to fry
1/2 cup honey
Cook the rice as you wish. Whisk the eggs and put them into a frying pan with a little piece of butter. Cook like scrambled eggs, once cooked through remove from the pan and rest on a plate. Dice the bacon and fry until cooked. Add to the egg and put the peas and corn on the plate with them. Add anything else you feel is necessary to make your fried rice awesome (like mushrooms, capsicum, shallots). Once the rice has cooked drain the water out and tip the egg, bacon, corn and peas into the rice. Add soy sauce to flavour and let the whole thing sit on low heat.
Cut the chicken into smaller pieces. Mix the batter by combining the flour and water (whisk if it becomes lumpy). Add the water gradually depending on the consistency - obviously you want the batter to stick to the chicken and not drip off everywhere!
Pour about 1cm of oil into a large frying pan and let the oil heat. Dip the pieces of chicken into the batter and place *carefully* into the oil. Let the chicken cook through and brown evenly. Turn carefully and keep an eye on the oil temperature to avoid spitting and burning yourself!
After the chicken is cooked put into a large bown and stir through honey. Serve the fried rice with the chicken on top and drizzle on more honey because it amazing!
*ugly photo :(
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