Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)
Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, karaage (japanese fried chicken). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Bite-size pieces of chicken are marinated in ginger, sake, and soy sauce before being deep-fried in this Japanese-style Chicken Karaage. The marinade is just a mixture of soy sauce, sake, mirin and freshly grated ginger. The ginger eliminates the chicken smell from the karaage and gives a great refreshing flavour.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have karaage (japanese fried chicken) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken):
  1. Take 1 lb Chicken Thigh
  2. Make ready Olive oil for frying
  3. Get Marinade
  4. Get 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  5. Prepare 1 tablespoon minced ginger
  6. Make ready 1 tablespoon sake / rice wine
  7. Prepare 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce
  8. Prepare 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  9. Prepare Batter
  10. Make ready 1 egg
  11. Get 1.5 tablespoon all purpose flour
  12. Take 1.5 tablespoon potato starch

Add the egg and potato starch to the chicken. Karaage is a Japanese friend chicken loved by many pepople across the world. Well marinated with simple ingredients ginger, garlic, mirin and double fried to achieve crispy result. Great as starter or savoury snack for parties and gatherings.

Steps to make Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken):
  1. Cut chicken into cubes (cut a little bit bigger than what you like in the end)
  2. In a ziplock, combine all the marinade ingredients and chicken and mix it well by your hands from outside of the bag, like massaging the meat and the marinade. Rest it in the fridge overnight. (Or you can store it in the freezer until the day you cook)
  3. 1 hour before start cooking, add the egg into the ziplock bag and mix it well. Rest for 30 mins.
  4. If you prefer the outside to be fluff like a beer-battered fried fish, combine the flour and starch into the same bag with the chicken and mix well inside of the bag. If you like it to be crispy, you can combine the dry ingredients in a bowl and coat the chicken before frying; work one piece at a time
  5. Deep fry the chicken; never crowd the pot! If you have a staub pot, you can fry the chicken with the lid closed on mid-high heat until the sounds from the pot gets quieter(5mins or so). Open the lid and cook 2 more mins on high heat

I love Japanese fried chicken, or karaage or tatsutaage. I always order it whenever I have lunch or dinner at Japanese restaurants or at izakaya (Japanese gastro pub). Japanese fried chicken is marinated with ginger juice, soy sauce, sake (Japanese rice wine) and mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine). Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) is easily one of the greatest fried chickens in the world. It's exceptionally flavorful, juicy and ultra crispy, and absolutely worth hanging out at the stove for!

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