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Equipment
- frying pan
- airtight container
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)
Instructions
Sweet and Sour Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) 5 servings
- Cut chicken into bite size pieces. Add in a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of Sake and grated ginger.Mix well until well seasoned.
- Toss in potato starch and all-purpose flour. Dust the outside of the chicken well.
- 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.
- Put all the ingredients of sweet and sour sauce into a frying pan.Cook on medium heat until reduce and make a thick syrup.
- Turn the heat off and put in Karaage. Toss to coat evenly.
Beef Tsukudani
- Shred fresh ginger. Cut beef into 2 inches lengthwise.
- Heat your frying pan on medium, Put in the beef. Loosen up the meat with chopsticks.
- Add in sugar, ginger and sake, continue cooking until the meat separate. ※Sugar makes your beef soft, sake add Umami.
- Add in soy sauce and rice syrup, cook until almost all of the liquid is gone.