Grammy's Kitchen · Sesame Chicken · Easy Sesame Chicken
One of 46 sesame chicken recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
483 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.5★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 46.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| egg | 11% | 0% |
| liquid | 7% | 2% |
| aromatics | 67% | 1% |
| sweetener | 9% | 8% |
| fat | 6% | 1% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 64 g | 1/4 cup soy sauce ($0.20) |
| 30 g | 2 Tbsp water ($0.00) |
| 14 g | 1 Tbsp toasted sesame oil ($0.32) |
| 40 g | 3 Tbsp brown sugar** ($0.30) |
| 15 g | 1 Tbsp rice vinegar ($0.14) |
| 2 g | 1 tsp grated fresh ginger*** ($0.10) |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic, minced ($0.08) |
| 4 g | 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch ($0.03) |
| 14 g | 1 Tbsp sesame seeds ($0.10) |
| 27 g | 2 Tbsp cooking oil ($0.08) |
| 454 g | 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs* ($3.48) |
| 50 g | 1 large egg ($0.67) |
| 16 g | 2 Tbsp cornstarch ($0.06) |
| 1 pinch each salt and pepper ($0.05) | |
| 740 g | 4 cups cooked jasmine rice ($0.97) |
| 300 g | 2 whole green onions ($0.20) |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I’ve made this recipe twice and I can’t get the egg mixture to stay on the chicken…I honestly could have just skipped this step and the end result would have been the same. I followed the instructions to the letter and made sure my pan and oil were very hot an” — a cook, 3.0★
“I've tried twice to make this. It's tolerable, but either I'm doing something wrong, or this really isn't worth the hype it's given. 1. I don't consider the effort it takes to cook the chicken without the egg coming off easy. I've never had this issue with oth” — a cook, 2.0★