Sesame Chicken Strips with a spicy lime dipping sauce

Tender chicken breast, coated in sesame seeds and fried to golden brown perfection. Served with a spicy lime dipping sauce, sesame chicken strips are the ultimate party snack

Sesame Chicken Strips with spicy lime dipping sauce

Sesame coated chicken strips are my favourite party snack. Tender strips of chicken, coated in beaten egg and sesame seeds and fried until they are golden brown. Crunch through the outer coating of crispy sesame to the succulent juicy chicken on the inside. Snacks don’t come much better than this.

The spicy lime dipping sauce is the perfect accompaniment. It’s fruity, salty and spicy all at once. And the taste goes really well with the chicken.

There are actually lots of names for this recipe. Make them for the family and you could call them chicken tenders, chicken fingers, and even chicken nuggets. If you want to impress dinner guests with your fabulous starter, you would, of course, call them chicken goujons 🙂 .

In addition to my spicy lime dipping sauce, I sometimes serve them with a sweet chilli dipping sauce, but they go equally well with lemon sauce, or even a garlic butter sauce.

Hand them round as a starter

I first made these years ago when I was looking for a way to impress my mother-in-law. We’d invited the family around for a barbeque and I wanted to show off my cooking skills, by making these as a starter.

The chicken strips were a great success, but my plan to impress back-fired badly. Ever since then, whenever we were invited around to the in-laws, it was ‘Oh Veronica – I know you love making these chicken strips so I got the ingredients for you‘ and I ended up in the kitchen, frying chicken strips for the starter, while everyone else was outside chatting around the barbeque.

Ingredients for Sesame Chicken Strips

• Chicken fillets – cut into long thin strips.
• Cornflour or cornstarch, Egg and Sesame Seeds – used to coat the chicken.
• Salt – this is optional, but I always like to sprinkle the chicken with a little salt before coating as I think it enhances the flavour. You can omit this if you don’t include salt in your diet.

How to make sesame chicken strips

You can get the complete list of ingredients and full instructions on how to make sesame chicken strips on the printable recipe card at the end of this post.

Prepare the chicken

• Cut the chicken breast into thin strips and season lightly with a sprinkling of salt. You should aim to cut the chicken into thin strips along the length of the breast. They should be about 1cm (or even less) in thickness. Don’t make them too thick or they will not cook through in the time that the coating has turned brown.

Prepare the coating ingredients

• This recipe uses the dry – wet – dry coating method, which is to first coat in a dry ingredient, followed by a wet ingredient with a final coating of a dry ingredient.
• So … get 3 bowls. Put 3 heaped tablespoons of cornflour into one bowl (dry), beat a couple of eggs into the second bowl (wet) and finally pour some untoasted sesame seeds into the third bowl (dry).

Coat the chicken

• Dip each chicken strip in cornflour – shake off the excess. Then dip in beaten egg. Finally dip into the sesame seeds.
• Use the two-handed method to coat the chicken so that you don’t end up with sesame and cornflour clumping on the end of your fingers. Using one hand coat the chicken with cornflour and dip it in the beaten egg. Now with the other hand remove the egg-coated chicken and dip into the sesame seeds.
• Layer the coated chicken on a plate (image 3 above).
• If you find the coating ingredients are running out, just top up the bowl with extra. (I find I normally need more sesame seeds, but it’s better to add more if needed rather than having to throw the leftover ones away).

Fry the chicken

Fry the chicken, a few pieces at a time, in hot oil until golden. The chicken strips are quite thin, so the chicken should be cooked through by the time the strips have turned golden.
To check, break a piece in half – the chicken should be white. There should be no pinkness showing.

Drain and serve

Place the cooked chicken strips on a piece of kitchen paper towel to absorb any excess oil
Serve with a bowl of spicy lime dipping sauce.
These can be eaten hot or cold.

Spicy lime dipping sauce

This sauce only takes 4 ingredients, and it is whisked together in seconds.

You will neeed:

• 1/2 cup (or 170g or 8 Tablespoons) lime marmalade
• 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons white vinegar
• 2 teaspoons sriracha sauce (more or less, depending on how spicy you like it)

You can halve the ingredients if you only want a small bowl. The above amounts make about 3/4 cup.

Just put all the ingredients into a bowl and either whisk, or mash together with a fork until everything is well combined.

You can make this in advance and keep in a closed jar in the refrigerator until you need it. It has a shelf-life equal to that of the marmalade.

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Sesame Chicken Strips

Tender chicken strips coated in sesame seeds. Serve with your favourite dipping sauce for a delicious party snack.

Prep Time30 mins

Cook Time30 mins

Total Time1 hr

Course: Easy, Party

Cuisine: Any

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 82kcal

Author: VJ

Equipment

• Sharp Knife
• 3 shallow bowls
• Wok or frying pan

Ingredients

Chicken strips

• 500 g Chicken breast fillets
• 4 Tablespoons Cornflour (heaped)
• 2 large Eggs (lightly beaten)
• 150 g Sesame Seeds
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Lime dipping sauce

• 1/2 cup lime maralade
• 2 Tablespoons dark soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons sriracha or to your own taste
• 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar

Instructions

Chicken strips

• Slice the chicken into thin strips
• Sprinkle with salt and black pepper to taste
• Coat each piece of chicken with cornflour, then with beaten egg, and finally with sesame seeds
• Fry the chicken in batches in hot oil until golden brown
• Drain on paper towels
• Serve with your favourite dipping sauce

Lime dipping sauce

• Place all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk or mash with a fork until well combined.
• Store in a covered jar in the refrigerator

Notes

To coat the chicken

• first dip a piece of chicken in cornflour and shake off the excess
• then dip in beaten egg and allow the excess egg to drip off
• finally press each piece into the bowl of sesame seeds to coat evenly

If the coating ingredients run out before you have finished coating the chicken, just add more to the bowls.

Don’t overfry or the chicken will be dry.  The chicken only takes minutes to cook as it is thinly sliced.  It is done when the outside is golden and the inside is no longer pink.

The calorie count is per piece of chicken, based on the assumption that you will get 25 strips of chicken from 500g, and is per strip.

I am not a nutritionist. The nutrition information has been calculated using an on-line calculator, and is intended for information and guidance purposes only.  If the nutrition information is important to you, you should consider calculating it yourself, using your preferred tool.

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