Weight Watchers Sesame Chicken Recipe
Weight Watchers Sesame Chicken Recipe with sesame seeds, maple syrup, soy sauce, dry sherry, five-spice, ginger root, flour, and peanut oil.
A quick 31 minute Chinese dinner.
Low Calorie 216 calories
MyWW Points: 3 Blue Plan and 4 Green Plan
3 WW Freestyle Points and 4 Smart Points.
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Weight Watchers Sesame Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp raw sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp soy sauce – low-sodium
- 1 tbsp dry sherry
- 1 tbsp water
- ½ tsp five-spice powder
- 1 tsp fresh ginger root minced
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 2-inch strips
- 2 tsp peanut oil
Instructions
- Heat skillet over medium/high heat. Cook raw sesame seeds stirring continuously approx 2 – 3 minutes until lightly toasted. Place toasted seeds in a shallow dish to save for later
- In a small mixing bowl, combine maple syrup, soy sauce, sherry, water, five-spice, and ginger. Whisk until well mixed. Set aside.
- Heat peanut oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium/high heat.
- In a shallow dish, add flour, salt and pepper. Mix well. Place chicken in flour mixture, turn to coat well. Pick up chicken and shake to remove the excess flour.
- Place chicken in heated skillet and saute approx 5 minutes. until all sides are browned.
- Add the prepared sauce mixture to the chicken. Cook approx 2 – 3 minutes until sauce thickens and is almost evaporated.
- Place chicken pieces in prepared sesame seeds to lightly coat. Move to a serving dish. Top with left-over sauce mixture.
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Hi there, I think you’ve double up on instruction 3? Cause you ask for the same thing to happen on instruction 5 lol or I’m reading it completely wrong, which is very possible 😆
You’re not wrong, I am! Thanks so much for pointing that out, I fixed it!