Honey Lemon Chicken Wings

Name: Honey Lemon Chicken Wings
Yield: Serves 4 as a Snack
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz) chicken stock (bouillon) powder; 2 tablespoons salt; 2 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; 10 g (¼ oz) Chinese five-spice; zest of 2 lemons; 20 chicken wings, wing tips cut off, separated into wings and drumettes; vegetable oil, for deep-frying; 2 tablespoons potato starch, mixed with a little water to make a slurry; 150 ml (5 fl oz) freshly squeezed lemon juice; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) honey; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) Shaoxing wine; sesame seeds, to garnish; 1½ tablespoons sesame oil

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a Snack

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Mr Hong

By Dan Hong

Published 2014

About

Two iconic Australian suburban Chinese dishes have to be honey chicken and lemon chicken. In this recipe, I combine both and use chicken wings... because I love them. It’s a terribly simple dish and super popular at Mr Wong.

Ingredients

Chicken Wings

100 ml (3½ fl oz) Shaoxing wine
1½ tablespoons sesame oil

Asia
Starter
Main course

Method

Chicken Wings

To make a marinade, put all the ingredients except the chicken wings in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Add the wings and massage the marinade into them with your hands. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Honey Lemon Sauce

Put the honey and lemon juice in a saucepan over a