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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Course: all
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

Sweet and Sour Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) 5 servings
  • 300 g chicken thigh (1 boneless skin-on chicken thigh)
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 ts Sake
  • 1 ts grated ginger
  • 1 tbs all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbs potato starch (or corn starch)
  • oil for frying
〈sweet and sour sauce〉
  • 1 tbs soy sauce
  • 1 tbs honey
  • 1 ts rice vinegar (any vinegar)
  • 1 tbs sugar
Beef Tsukudani
  • 300 g Thinly sliced Beef rib (any soft part of sliced beef)
  • 1 tbs sugar
  • 20 g ginger
  • 1 tbs Sake
  • 1 tbs soy sauce
  • 1 tbs rice syrup (or corn syrup)

Equipment

  • frying pan
  • airtight container

Method
 

Sweet and Sour Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) 5 servings
  1. Cut chicken into bite size pieces.
    Add in a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of Sake and grated ginger.
    Mix well until well seasoned.
  2. Toss in potato starch and all-purpose flour.
    Dust the outside of the chicken well.
  3. Deep fry the chicken at 170℃ for 4~5 mins until the outside is crispy and cooked through.
    Take out onto a wire lack and drip off any excess oil.
  4. Put all the ingredients of sweet and sour sauce into a frying pan.
    Cook on medium heat until reduce and make a thick syrup.
  5. Turn the heat off and put in Karaage. Toss to coat evenly.
Beef Tsukudani
  1. Shred fresh ginger. Cut beef into 2 inches lengthwise.
  2. Heat your frying pan on medium, Put in the beef. Loosen up the meat with chopsticks.
  3. Add in sugar, ginger and sake, continue cooking until the meat separate.
    ※Sugar makes your beef soft, sake add Umami.
  4. Add in soy sauce and rice syrup, cook until almost all of the liquid is gone.