Sesame Chicken

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This recipe is truly a favorite in our home. Dinner here is served to 16 people (minimum - mostly TEENAGERS - every night so it is always a plus to find a recipe with easy preparation and appeal to a wide variety of palates. Easily able to multiply for a bigger audience, this is a great dinner for a crowd.

My daughter and I have each made this dinner many times and find that substituting traditional Panko bread crumbs instead of flour gives the meal a more interesting appeal. We have found that bigger strips are better than the small chunks of chicken - more appealing, less breading and more 'meal-like'.

Jasmine steamed rice, Japanese green beans, and a mandarin orange ginger toss salad round it out!

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Great recipe however I also agree it was a tad bland. Next time I will use garlic & ginger as well to add more flavor. Instead of flour I used corn starch and baked the chicken in a glass dish. Served with plain white rice & packets of soy sauce. Also served with her Orange-Ginger Wontons which were outstanding!

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I normally love Melissa's recipes, but I found this one to be really bland. I marinated the chicken for 6 hours and it still had very little flavor. I was out of parchment paper so I used tinfoil, and I found that the melted butter was tending to burn on the bottom of the chicken by the end of the cooking time. I served the chicken with stir fried rice, which fortunately added some flavor to the meal, but I wouldn't recommend this one without some substantial recipe tweaks.

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Great recipe! My kids love this, so now I will be making it more often. The reason I left off a star is that I found in the flour/sesame coating many of the sesame seeds got wasted and thats a bummer because they are the most expensive ingredient. Next time I may just use a little less flour. Still a keeper and one to play around with.

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Made tonight and came out great thanks to all the reviews! I did double the sauce, but did not double the soy sauce as the sauce looked very dark which didn't seem right for a sesame sauce. I added garlic and a little ginger for more flavor. I also added a tablespoon of sesame oil which really gives that flavor of asian restaurant style entrees. I marinaded in 2/3 the sauce for 6 hrs. I drained the sauce & patted the chicken dry. I used Panko Crumbs instead. I sprayed the chicken with cooking spray before baking instead of butter. Lastly, I lightly tossed the chicken in some of the remaining sauce.

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I love Melissa, but this was just ok. I did make a second batch of the marinade and grated some ginger on the top, which helped. My family didn't say much about it, so I don't think I'll make it again. It was easy, but just not flavorful enough. Bummer.

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I have to agree with some of the other reviews. I found this pretty tasteless too and next time I will make a second batch of marinade to toss it in after it's cooked. I think I will also use Panko instead of flour because I really didn't like the taste of this breading. Will add garlic too next time because this recipe definitely needed more flavor.

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I expected much more from this receipt than the outcome. Not enough flavor, not tender,very easy though. Maybe next time will try again and make some changes.

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I love the recipe if my kids like it I like I like it

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Pretty tasteless. The chicken could definitely use garlic? more marmalade, something. I read the reviews and used panko instead of flour and the chicken did brown up and was crunchy. I also upped the temp in my oven and this helped. I really wanted to like this recipe but I will change it considerably if I use it again.