Sesame chicken is one of the most popular dishes on the menu at any Chinese takeout restaurant or buffet.Deep-fried boneless chicken coated in a savory sweet sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds? It’s a favorite here in America.  That said, there is a lot of subpar sesame chicken out there! Too sweet, too gloopy, too neon red, too bready, too soggy…it can be a surprisingly difficult dish to get right.Don’t worry, we have the recipe and formula you need to do it.

If you don’t mind a little deep-frying, sesame chicken is easy to make at home.The best part is that you get more chicken than most restaurant versions, which are heavy on the batter and light on chicken.Our recipe also has the perfectly balanced sauce—not too sweet, no artificial coloring, and a fresh taste without the car trip from the restaurant!  Not a fan of Frying? If you don’t like to deep-fry at home, try our baked version!  This recipe is almost exactly the same as the version in our New York Times Bestselling cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know & Love from a Chinese American Family.

I made a couple minor tweaks that are really more a matter of preference than anything else.The cookbook has so many more delicious recipes in it that we ourselves return to again and again.We hope you check it out!  So if you’re looking to make that platonic ideal plate of sesame chicken, read on and check out our YouTube video! But What Is Sesame

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