Chicken breast in honey sauce

Ingredients for 3 servings:

• 600 g chicken breast
• 1 tsp five-spice powder
• salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1 chili pepper(s), hot
• 1 piece(s) ginger
• 1 garlic clove(s)
• 200 ml chicken broth
• 2 tbsp, heaped honey
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp rice wine (Shaoxing rice wine), alternatively dry sherry
• 1 tbsp soy sauce, light
• 1 tsp, heaped cornstarch
• Vegetable oil for frying

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 25 minutes

sweet, spicy and seasoned with five-spice powder

Dissolve the honey and sugar in the hot chicken broth. Then add the soy sauce, rice wine, and rice vinegar. Finely chop the chili, ginger, and garlic. Cut the chicken breast into approximately 3 cm cubes and season with pepper, salt, and five-spice powder. Sift the flour over the chicken breast cubes and mix everything well. Heat a little vegetable oil in a wok or large pan, sear the floured chicken breast cubes on all sides, and then remove them. Briefly sear the chili, ginger, and garlic in a little vegetable oil, then add the prepared honey sauce and simmer for a few minutes. Stir in the cornstarch dissolved in a little water and bring to a boil briefly. Add the seared chicken breast cubes to the honey sauce and heat through again. Serve the chicken breast in the honey sauce with rice.