Home Cooking: Japanese Fried Chicken Nuggets

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Fried chicken may well be an international favourite as it’s hard to find a country that does not boast some version of the dish. Japan is by no means an exception, and fried chicken is a common Nippon snack food.

As you might expect, the creative nation has put its own spin on the poultry, turning the simple bar snack into an exotic refreshment. Delicious, nutritious, crispy on the surface and tender on the inside, Japanese fried chicken nuggets are the perfect finger food to have in your cooking arsenal.

Ingredients:

1 chicken leg

200ml sake

10ml light soy sauce

3g salt

2g shichimi togarashi (Japanese spice powder)

7g mashed ginger

7g mashed garlic

Sesame oil

Chicken powder

Hon Dashi (traditional spice made from smoked and dried fish)

Preparation:

1. Remove bones from the chicken leg and cut the meat into pieces.

2. Add sake, salt, mashed ginger, mashed garlic, chicken powder, light soy sauce, sesame oil, shichimi togarashi and Hon Dashi.

3. Mix all together, cover with food wrap and put aside for three to four hours.

4. When ready, bread the chicken meat with flour or tempura powder.

5. Fry for four minutes in oil at 170 degrees Celsius.

6. Drain the oil and dry the fried chicken nuggets.

This recipe is courtesy of Chief Chef Guangwen Zhou from Komachi.
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