This is a quick and easy recipe for Chicken Karaage or Japanese fried chicken. The is most often found in ramen joint as a side dish, providing a nice crunchy accompaniment to hot soup. The taste I usually find missing in commercial versions is the strong ginger taste I enjoy that’s why we make it at home.
Ingredients
- 8 boneless chicken thighs
- oil, for deep frying
- 90g cornflour
Marinade
- 50g fresh ginger
- 60ml sake
- 60ml soy sauce
- Cut the chicken thighs into 4 and set aside
- Grate ginger and squeeze to extract the juice
- In a mixing bowl Add sake and soy sauce and ginger juice
- add the chicken thighs and rub well with the marinade
- Heat oil to 165-170 degrees.
- Pat the chicken pieces dry on a paper towel.
- Coat the chicken with potato flour and lower it into the hot oil
- Deep fry chicken pieces for 4-5 minutes until crisp and golden brown
- Check the doneness by slicing in half one chicken piece.
Enjoy with a bowl of steaming hot rice or even serve it cold as a pairing for alcoholic beverages.
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it’s not karaage without potato starch, using corn starch is just debauchery
thanks for the tip, we’ll be sure to use potato starch next time around.