Sesame Chicken Pancakes with Plum Sauce

Sesame Chicken Pancakes with Plum Sauce

Cook your roast chicken with honey and five-spice glaze then serve with a Chinese-style plum sauce and pakes.

Ready in: 2 hours 30 minutes

Serves: 6

Complexity: very-easy

kcal: 433

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Ingredients

CHICKEN:--
1.8kg whole chicken
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 tbsp five spice powder
2 tbsp clear honey
2 tbsp sesame seed
TO SERVE:--
soft Chinese pancakes or wraps, warmed
½ cucumber, finely shredded
6 spring onions, finely shredded
1 cup SIDS TRADITIONAL PLUM SAUCE

Directions

Heat oven to 180°C. Sit the chicken in a roasting tin, drizzle with oil and rub all over with the five-spice and plenty of seasoning. Roast in the centre of the oven for 30 minutes. Turn the oven down to 160°C and cook for a further 1 hr 50 minutes.
Remove the chicken from the oven and increase the heat back to 200°C. Drizzle over the honey and sprinkle with sesame seeds, then return to the oven for 20 minutes, with the plums on the shelf underneath. When the chicken is cooked, remove from the oven and cover with foil. Leave to rest for 20 minutes before serving. Heat SIDS TRADITIONAL PLUM SAUCE to quite warm then stir in ¼ tsp of 5 spice powder.
To serve, shred the chicken with forks and pile into warm Chinese pancakes or wraps with the warm plum sauce and some shredded cucumber and spring onions.