| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 8 hr 36 min |
| Prep: | 30 min |
| Inactive: | 8 hr |
| Cook: | 6 min |
| Yield: | 5 servings |
| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 8 hr 36 min |
| Prep: | 30 min |
| Inactive: | 8 hr |
| Cook: | 6 min |
| Yield: | 5 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 small minced onion
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- One 1/4-inch piece peeled fresh ginger
- 6 ounces lemon juice
- 6 ounces olive oil
- 3 ounces soy sauce
- 3 ounces dark rum
- 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 5 chicken breasts
- 1 cup toasted sesame seeds
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Sesame Noodles, recipe follows
- Soy-Ginger Vinaigrette, recipe follows
- Mesclun Greens
- Spicy Apricot Sauce, recipe follows
- 1 pound fresh angel hair pasta
- 1/2 bunch cilantro, leaves chopped
- 1 bunch chopped scallions
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 ounce boiling water
- 2 cups apricot glaze
- 1 cup balsamic vinaigrette
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- 1/2 cup mirin
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine the onion, garlic, and ginger and pulse to mince. Place in a bowl and combine with the lemon juice, olive oil, soy sauce, rum, crushed red pepper, sugar, and salt. Shake, or stir well, before use. Cut the chicken breast into 2-inch strips. Put in plastic bag or tub with marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Combine sesame seeds with the flour. Dredge marinated chicken strips in the flour-sesame mixture. In a skillet, heat enough canola oil to lightly coat the bottom of the skillet until hot, but not smoking. Cook chicken strips, on both sides until golden brown. Transfer to a shallow roasting pan and finish in the oven.
- To assemble:
- Toss the Sesame Noodles with some Soy-Ginger Vinaigrette and some fresh mesclun greens. Place the noodle salad on a plate and top with the cooked sesame chicken. Drizzle some Spicy Apricot Sauce over the chicken. Garnish with pickled ginger and a side of the apricot dipping sauce.
- Cook angel hair pasta in boiling, salted water for 2 minutes or until al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking. Add the cilantro, scallions, olive, and sesame oils. Combine well.
- Combine all ingredients, except for the water, in a blender. Blend for 30 seconds. Then add the water and blend for another 10 seconds.
- Put all ingredients in a saucepan, and heat until the glaze melts. Whisk until smooth, and serve at room temperature. Add water if it gets too thick.
Reviews
Pretty time consuming, but the result is worth the effort.
This recipe is really good and easily modified (in case you know, you misread the recipe and don’t marinate it or forget the lemon juice!)
It was DELICIOUS!
Licking a salt stick would taste better.
This recipe took much longer than the 30 minutes listed as prep time, and certainly takes more than 6 minutes of cooking time.
The marinade left the chicken so salty that we chose to throw it away – not even fit for the dog.
The sesame noodles were passable, but other ercipes are superior. The apricot sauce was OK, but since the chicken was inedible we found no use for it.
I can’t give it 5 stars, since I changed a LOT about the recipe. I used the basic framework for flavors, but tinkered a lot with quantities (5 chicken breasts is a LOT in our house–I think I used 2, and we got several servings!). Made a rather different dipping sauce using plum sauce as the base, and tossed the fried chicken strips in this sauce. Used linguine and a variation of the vinaigrette, resulting in really yummy noodles!
not worth the time and hassle it took to make. A ton of steps, a ton of dirty pots. Very yummy…but I think it would be even more enjoyable in the restaurant in Vermont…where someone else has to make it!!
2 star
Yeah it is time consuming but OH so good! I have made it a couple of times now. YUM!!
This was a perfect appetizer. rich with sauce and flavor. We had these when the Clark’s came for a holiday Dinner 2004.
I made this Spicy sesame chicken dish and although it was time consuming, my man loved it! It was a great beginning to a very romantic evening. This is definitely a recipe I’ll keep in my box!
This was a expensive, and time consuming recipe for chx strips. I never make it again. Tiffany from Shorewood, Il.