Honey Chili Potatoes – Restaurant Style

Honey Chili Potatoes is a delicious restaurant style Chinese starter. This is vegetarian appetizer which is crispy and tasty. Potatoes are fried and mixed in a sauce which is sweet and spicy.

I always want a plate of crispy honey chili potato near me in any Chinese restaurant when I visit it on certain days. I love to bite into these crispy potatoes coated with sweet and spicy sauce. This finger food with potato will leave you wanting more.

So if you are craving Chinese food in this lockdown, get back to cooking Chinese recipes at home. I am sure you will start making this Chinese snack often. The sweet and spicy potatoes in a finger-licking sauce with flavors of honey and sesame seeds can be served with fried rice or Chinese soup.

Kids also love this fried chili potato recipe. Make  this spicy recipe with fried potato for any party. Just remember to serve it hot, else this potato recipe will get soggy.

First boil potatoes, coat with batter and deep fry for few seconds. Mix them in a sauce made with tomato sauce, soya sauce, garlic, ginger, honey and sesame seeds. You have to be quick in serving this recipe, else the potatoes will get soggy.

You might like paneer manchurian or gobi manchurian which is also an Indo-Chinese recipe.

I know that your mouth is watering, and you want to make this Chinese recipe at home now. Let us see the honey chili potato ingredients:

1. Potatoes – Use medium sized fresh in this crispy potato based starter recipe.
2. Flour – I have used all purpose flour and corn flour – the main ingredients for batter.
3. Spices – Add red chili flakes and black pepper powder while making the batter and also while making sauce for honey chili potatoes.
4. Sauces – Mix together dark soy sauce, tomato sauce and honey. These are the main sauces which brings out the flavor in this Chinese snack.
5. Sesame seeds – Add few sesame seeds while making the sauce.
6. Garlic and ginger – In any Chinese dish, garlic and ginger are the main ingredients.
7. Onion – Use a small onion in this recipe.
8. Capsicum – Saute capsicum or bell pepper till crispy and add while making this crispy potato recipe.

You are wondering how to make honey chili potato, right? Let us look into the steps to make this delicious potato recipe.

Boil potatoes:

Potato fingers should be slightly boiled. Do not boil the potatoes completely. Just let them be slightly soft. Drain water and keep aside.

Prepare batter:

Take a small mixing bowl and mix cornflour, all purpose flour, half chopped garlic, ¼ teaspoon salt and black pepper. Add 2 tablespoon water and prepare batter. Keep batter aside for 5 minutes.

Coat semi-boiled potato fingers with batter:

Pour this batter on boiled potato fingers ensuring that each potato finger is coated with batter.

Deep fry the batter coated potato fingers:

Heat a kadai/wok and heat oil for deep frying. After oil is hot enough, drop potato finger in it one by one in batches of 10 and deep fry till it is crispy. Ensure that the potato fingers don’t stick to each other while deep frying.

Drain extra oil from deep fried potatoes:

After deep frying, place all the deep fried potato fingers on a kitchen towel and drain extra oil.

Saute the vegetables:

Heat a wok and add 1 tablespoon oil. Add finely chopped garlic and ginger and fry till raw garlic smell goes away. Add chopped onion and fry till onion turns slightly brownish. Mix in chopped bell pepper(capsicum) and fry till it is crunchy. Add sesame seeds and mix well. Fry for 2 minutes on low flame.

Prepare the sauce:

Let us add the sauces – add soya sauce and tomato sauce and mix well. Add honey and mix well. Add a pinch of salt.

Coat crispy batter fried potatoes with sauce:

Drop boiled batter coated potato fingers in prepared sauce and mix well.

Garnish:

Garnish with sesame seeds and spring onion greens.

You might be interested in some more potato recipes: Baked potato wedges, Tangy baby potatoes , Potato Curry

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Honey Chili Potatoes

Find step by step images for making honey chili potato restaurant style Chinese starter. This is vegetarian appetizer which is crispy and tasty. Potatoes are fried and mixed in a sauce which is sweet and spicy.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Servings: 4 People

By: Raksha Kamat

Equipment

• Kadai / wok
• Saucepan
• Mixing bowl

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Ingredients

• ▢ 4 medium sized potato peel and cut into fingers
• ▢ 2 tablespoon all purpose flour / maida
• ▢ 2 tablespoon corn flour
• ▢ 1 tablespoon black pepper powder
• ▢ 2 tablespoon red chili flakes
• ▢ 10 garlic pods finely chopped
• ▢ ¼ inch ginger peeled and chopped finely
• ▢ 2 cups refined oil
• ▢ 1 small onion cut into cubes
• ▢ ½ bell pepper cut into cubes
• ▢ 2 tablespoon sesame seeds
• ▢ 1 tablespoon soya sauce
• ▢ 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
• ▢ 2 tablespoon honey
• ▢ Spring onion greens for garnish
• ▢ To taste salt

Instructions

Boil potatoes:

• Boil potato fingers till it is slightly boiled. Do not boil the potatoes completely. Just let them be slightly soft. Drain water and keep aside.

Prepare batter:

• Take a small mixing bowl and mix cornflour, all purpose flour, half chopped garlic, ¼ teaspoon salt and black pepper. Add 2 tablespoon water and prepare batter. Keep batter aside for 5 minutes.

Coat semi-boiled potato fingers with batter:

• Pour this batter on boiled potato fingers. Ensure that each potato finger is coated with batter.

Deep fry the batter coated potato fingers:

• Heat a kadai/wok and heat oil for deep frying. After oil is hot enough, drop potato finger in it one by one in batches of 10 and deep fry till it is crispy. Ensure that the potato fingers don’t stick to each other while deep frying.

Drain extra oil from deep fried potatoes:

• After deep frying, place all the deep fried potato fingers on a kitchen towel. Let the extra oil get drained.

Saute the vegetables:

• Heat a wok and add 1 tablespoon oil. Add finely chopped garlic and ginger and fry till raw garlic smell goes away.
• Add chopped onion and fry till onion turns slightly brownish.
• Mix in chopped bell pepper(capsicum) and fry till it is crunchy.
• Add sesame seeds and mix well. Fry for 2 minutes on low flame.

Prepare the sauce:

• Let us add the sauces – add soya sauce and tomato sauce and mix well.
• Add honey and mix well. Add a pinch of salt.

Coat crispy batter fried potatoes with sauce:

• Drop boiled batter coated potato fingers in prepared sauce and mix well.
• Garnish with sesame seeds and spring onion greens.

Notes

• While frying potato fingers, fry in small batches so that they don't stick to one another.
• To make extra crispy, you might want to fry the potatoes 1 more time.
• Serve hot, else the potato recipe will get soggy.

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