Honey Chili Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 broiler chicken
    1/2 cup flour
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    3 cups vegetable oil
    1/3 cup water
    1/3 cup lemon juice
    2 teaspoons cornstarch
    4 teaspoons Chinese chili sauce
    2 teaspoons soy sauce
    1 1/2 teaspoons gingerroot, grated
    3 tablespoons honey
    6 green onions, thinly sliced
Preparation
    Remove giblets from chicken and discard.
    Rinse chicken and cut into small serving-size pieces.
    Combine flour and salt.
    Coat chicken pieces with flour mixture.
    Heat oil in wok to 375\u00b0F.
    Add chicken pieces, one at a time, to hot oil (cook only 1/3 of the pieces at a time).
    Cook until golden, about 5 minutes.
    Drain on paper towels.
    Repeat with remaining chicken.
    Pour all but 1 tablespoon of the oil out of wok.
    Combine water, lemon juice, cornstarch, chili sauce and soy sauce.
    Add ginger to oil in wok.
    Stir-fry 1 minute.
    Add honey to ginger.
    Cook and stir 1 minute.
    Add cornstarch-chili mixture to honey and ginger.
    Cook and stir until mixture boils, about 1 minute.
    Stir chicken pieces into chili mixture.
    Cook and stir until chicken is hot throughout, about 3 minutes.
    Stir in onions.
    Cook and stir 1 minute.

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