Easiest Way to Make Perfect Special Chicken Karaage

Special Chicken Karaage. Special Chicken Karaage is something which I have loved my whole life. To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. Here is how you can achieve it.

Serve as an appetizer or with rice and veggies to make a yummy meal. It even tastes good cold; my mom used to make this to take with us on picnics. By Brenda Sawyer Adamson In a shallow baking dish large enough to hold the chicken, combine ginger, garlic, sake, soy sauce and sugar. You can cook Special Chicken Karaage using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Special Chicken Karaage

1. You need of Flour Mixture.
2. It's 150 gr of Flour.
3. It's 20 ml of Water.
4. You need of Black pepper.
5. Prepare of Salt.
6. You need of Paprika powder (optional).
7. It's of Marination.
8. Prepare 5 tablespoons of Selaé apple butter(other brand not recommended).
9. It's 3/4 of Onion (grated).
10. You need 2 cloves of Garlic (grated).
11. You need 2 teaspoons of Soy sauce.
12. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of blackpepper.
13. It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
14. You need of Meat.
15. It's 500 grams of Chicken thighs.

Toss chicken pieces in marinade to coat. Chicken Karaage, a.k.a Japanese Fried Chicken, is crispy on the outside and super moist within. Delicious as an appetizer or serve with rice to turn it into meal. I have taken a deep dive into how to prepare the perfect Karaage including an air-fried version!

Special Chicken Karaage instructions

1. Mix the flour with water, make little crumbles for textures. Add a pinch of blackpepper and a pinch of paprika powder.
2. Make the marination: mix Selaé apple butter, grated onion, grated garlic, salt, blackpepper, and soy sauce.
3. Cut chicken thighs into medium pieces (2-4 bites).
4. Mix the chicken thighs with the marination. Cover with plastic wrap let it sit in the fridge for 1 hour.
5. After 1 hour, Heat up the pan, fill it with vegetable oil (4-5 cm), and use medium heat. Coat the marinated chicken thighs with the flour mixture.
6. We will fried it twice so the first time is to cook the chicken with medium heat and the second time to make it crispy.
7. Check the oil temperature by dipping some wet flour into the oil. If it's bubbling, then it's ready.
8. Fry the chicken until the color is yellowish and strain the excess oil. Repeat until all chicken thighs are cooked (4-6 minutes).
9. Second fry, use high heat. Fry the chicken again until golden brown.
10. Strain the excess oil. Voila you're done (sauce: check my kimchi mayo dips recipe).

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