Japanese Fried Chicken
A delicious Japanese take on fried chicken
Ingredients
Scale
- 500g chicken breast meat, skin on
- 3 tsp freshly grated ginger
- 1 clove garlic, chopped finely
- 1 spring onion chopped finely
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp Japanese soy sauce
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 1 tsp wasabi paste
- 1 small dried chilli, chopped
- pinch of black pepper
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 2/3 cup cornflour
- vegetable oil for deep frying
- Mayonnaise, wasabi to serve
Instructions
- Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces.
- Make a marinade of the ginger, garlic, spring onion, sesame oil, soy sauce, mirin, pepper and chilli.
- Marinate the chicken for at least 1 1/2 hours.
- Mix eggwhite and cornflour well.
- Add the chicken and marinate.
- Heat the oil.
- Deep-fry spoonfuls of the chicken mixture until golden brown.
- Drain onto crushed kitchen paper and keep hot whilst the rest of the mixture is cooked.
- To serve, spread on platter with dobs of mayo and wasabi