Japanese Fried Chicken (Kara-age) Recipe

Easy! Juicy! Crispy!

Prep Time : 20 minutes　
Cook Time : 15 Minutes

Ingredients (2 servings)

Method / Directions

• Remove born fragments if you find them.
  
  
• then cut chicken thigh into large bite-size pieces.
  

• Add Cooking Sake(30g), Soy sauce(20g),
  the 3g grated ginger, the 3g grated garlic,
  Salt (1 pinch), Pepper (2 pinches),
  To a plastic bag and mix them until combined.
  
• Add the chicken into the plastic bag.
  Rub it in to marinade and leave for about 10 minutes.
  

• Mix the Potato Starch(50g) and the Flour(50g) until combined.
  
• Mix the batter and the chicken
  until the chicken pieces are fully coated.
  
• Then dust off the excess powder.
  

• Heat some cooking oil in a pan to 170℃
  
  and put the chicken pieces in.
  
• 1 minutes later, turn them over and fry for another minute.
  
• Placed the half cooked chicken pieces on a wire rack or kitchen roll
  
• Leave them for about 3 minutes.
  

• Re-heat the cooking oil in a pan to 180℃.
  
• Fry the chicken pieces again for 1 minutes.
  
• Then turn them over and fry for another minute.(till golden brown)
  
• Placed the fried chicken pieces on a wire rack or kitchen roll.
  

• Serve hot or cold with some lemons / citruses wedges
  and squeeze of Japanese Mayonnaise.