Crackling Sesame Honey chicken

My weekends are not on Saturdays and Sundays like all normal people. It’s on Wednesday & Thursdays. Not fun right. You bet!! The entire days I sit at home, read books, watch random stuff in YouTube, snoop about people in Facebook and watch random stuff again. Yeah so that’s what I do the entire two days mostly. On my weekends, I am a lazy person and if I am not dying then I prefer not going out at all. After literally fighting and sweating my way through Mumbai traffic to work, I don’t really miss the chaos on my weekends.

This last week, the entire five days at work, my friend Preci and myself have been going through different food recipes and decided to cook something together. Yes I have passed  the bug to browse food blogs on to my friends as well. We spend our times lusting over, yes lusting over the different recipes in random food blogs … we decided to make a version of honey sesame chicken that we found easy enough to make.. It needs an oven but since in my humble abode in Mumbai there is no oven or a microwave, we decide my trusted frying pan it is. Yes I do stay without a microwave. But unfortunately we could not face the 37 degrees outside and canned our plan and decided to treat ourselves to cupcakes instead in the evening.

I dreamt of this sweet and sticky chicken for an entire week. How could I let go of relishing this with my fingers sitting on the bed and afterwards licking my fingers for kingdom come.  So I decided, that enough of being lazy and appointed Prince, R’s boyfriend as my sous chef. He loves his food and was more enthusiastic than I was. From chopping onions for me to marinating the chicken, he did it all. He kept on saying that the chicken should be marinated properly Di.  We should do it properly. So here's to doing it properly.

So this post is dedicated to you Prince, for making my dream of licking my fingers come true.

Honey sesame chicken  

INGREDIENTS

1 Kg chicken

Half cup honey

3 spoonful of Siracha sauce (hot sauce)

2 teaspoon of ginger garlic paste

3 tablespoon of dark soya sauce

2 thinly sliced onions

250 grams mushrooms

1 tablespoon of Dijon or English mustard

Salt to taste (remember you are adding soya sauce, and that salty)

2 teaspoon of roasted sesame seeds

METHOD

Wash and clean the chicken

Marinade the chicken with soya sauce, honey, siracha sauce, salt, chopped onions, ginger garlic paste and mustard.

Keep aside for at least an hour.

In a frying pan add a tablespoon of oil and once hot place the chicken and fry both the sides till light brown.

Add a little of the marinade ,cover and cook till chicken is tender and cooked.

In the meantime chop the mushrooms and add to the marinade.

Once all the chicken pieces are cooked add the mushrooms with all the marinade and cook till mushrooms are soft and the marinade mixture has reduced.                                                                

It becomes a light sweet mushroom sauce for the chicken.

Add the roasted sesame seeds on top of the chicken.

Devour with a loaf of bread and a big bowl of salad of your choice.

P.S : I ate mine with white fluffy rice . I was craving for bhaat . In order to reduce my weight and get fit I am trying to avoid rice you see but at times (almost every time) I bow down to my temptations.