
Crispy Shredded Chicken with Chilli & Honey Sauce
The chicken in this crispy shredded chicken recipe can be used as a base for many different dishes. One of the best known is Salt and Chilli Chicken which you will find the recipe for here.
The chilli and honey sauce coats the chicken rather than being a wet sauce that flows around your plate. Given the choice of Salt and Chilli Chicken, which is a dry dish made using the same crispy chicken, I would choose this every time.
The sauce really compliments the chicken to perfection. You can choose to serve it on the side or coat the chicken with it like I did. The best thing about homemade food is you can adapt it to suit your own tastes. Crispy chicken also goes great with my basic Chinese curry sauce, you will find the recipe here. You can also simply use sweet chilli sauce from a jar if you prefer.
This chicken also goes great with a wrap with peppers, lettuce, spring onion and a sweet chilli mayonnaise which is made by mixing one part sweet chilli to 3 parts mayonnaise.

Ingredients
Instructions
Drop the basket of your deep fat fryer then very carefully add each piece to the hot oil. Be careful of splashes! Cook for 5 – 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. There can be no pink at all, they must be white all the way though.
Cook in your preheated air fryer for 10-15 minutes until cooked through. There can be no pink bits, they must be white all the way through.
Place on a baking tray lined with grease proof paper and bake for 10 -20 minutes turning halfway through. There must be no pink bits, they must be white all the way through when cooked.
Great easy to follow instructions, top class Bia Maith
Is it baking soda or baking powder? You say both ?
It’s baking powder Laura
Oops I’ve gone with baking soda … Should I go again?
Perfect for take away night! Can’t wait to make it!
gorgeous dish just made it…..even if you didnt use the sauce the chicken on its own has fab flavour
Lovely dish, I made with smash and I’d say 80g-100g would do perfectly.
All I can say is OMG!! I will never get this from the Chinese take away again?. The instructions were so easy to follow and the flavours were amazing. I forgot to take a photo before it was demolished. I made the oven version and it was so tasty. Definitely will make this again soon. Thanks for sharing ??.
Made this today for my husband and four children. It was a massive hit. Everyone devoured them and asked for more. Beautiful. Thanks Liam.
Absolutely fantastic dish with an easy to follow recipe. I dont own a deep fat fryer so had to use my oven and it was still fab!! The whole family loved it. Cant wait to try more . Thanks Liam
Amazing dish full of flavours so easy to make and was devoured by the whole family
made this today and it is fab. easy and quick and all 4 of us loved it. Empty plates all round. I had some extra sauce left over so used for dipping homemade sausage rolls for tea – yum yum. Thanks again BiaMaith!
Cooking wise took me longer than 15 mins used air dryer chicken turned out lovely but very hard too clean air fryer after As chicken a little sticky.But was worth it. Sauce lovely and spicy. Did take a little effort but was lovely. Had the next day also for lunch and was prob nicer.
Omg did this dish tonight its fantastic better than any takeaway thanks Liam
Really loved this dish. Very tasty and full of flavours. Prep time took me a little longer but was worth the wait. Thank you!
So easy to follow and tastes gorgeous. Had it with the curry mentioned above on the side and having the leftovers today in a wrap ! Great recipes, keep em coming.
Lovely recipe but it I couldn’t see where the chillis and garlic from the list of chicken ingredients were mentioned in the recipe -I put them in with the egg whites and chicken . is that where they should go? Also I baked the chicken in the oven and after adding it to the wok with the sauce it wasn’t crispy as a lot of the coating stuck to the wok – possibly my wok? Any tips to keep.it crispy? Great site and both the Italian and Thai meatballs are absolutely delicious thanks. ?
That would be your wok Mairead. I’ve edited the recipe to say those ingredients should be used to garnish at the end or go into the wok when you add the chicken to the sauce. The way you did it is fine too.
Just made this for the first time. Unbelievably good and taught me a few new techniques, thanks Liam!