Make Karaage Chicken Appetizer

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HOW TO MAKE KARAAGE CHICKEN APPETIZER

Karaage chicken is a very popular Japanese style chicken. The word karaage (pronounced as KAH-rah-AH-ge in English), means deep frying small pieces of chicken, or any other meat or fish.

Ingredients

Karaage chicken is made with several ingredients: wheat flour, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, cooking sake, sesame oil, salt, pepper; 3/4 cup spring water, dark meat chicken, and canola oil for frying in the frypan or deep fryer.

Buy The Ingredients

A wheat flour called karaageko is used to coat the chicken pieces. You can buy at the Asian grocery store. If you cannot buy you can use unbleached wheat flour, which is at the bulk barn, or the wheat flour at local grocery stores.

You can also use potato starch - katakuriko(potato starch) - to coat the pieces, also at the Asian market. I tryed the potato starch coating, and i much prefer the wheat flour coating.

Minced garlic, grated ginger root or minced ginger, soy sauce, salt, pepper, spring water, chicken thighs, canola oil, all available at local grocery stores.

Cooking sake and sesame oil can buy at Asian grocer that has Japanese foods.

Buy The Karaage Chicken

You can buy pre made frozen karaage chicken at your local Asian market. You get about 3/4 pound bag for $4 or $5 dollars. It is easy to cook just add a half dozen pieces to a microwave dish, cover with wax paper, and microwave for 65 seconds on high heating mode.
If your adding additional pieces then increase microwave cook time.

Make The Karaage Chicken

You can make your own karaage chicken quite easily; you need three or four chicken thighs well trimmed of fat (can leave some fat on); then using your kitchen food cutting scissors cut the thigh meat into many smaller pieces. Discard the bones. Some stores have the de boned no skin thighs.

Make your chicken marinate sauce; add 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cooking sake, 1 teaspoon minced garlic, 1 teaspoon grated root ginger or the minced ginger, and 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil. Put all these ingredients in bowl and mix well.

On a dinner plate put 3/4 cup unbleached wheat flour or the Japanese wheat flour karaageko, 1 teaspoon pepper, and a sprinkle of salt; and mix all together well using a fork.

Place your cut chicken into the bowl of marinate sauce. Stir the chicken into the marinate sauce till all chicken is coated. Cover the bowl with foil or saran wrap. Put in fridge for at least 1 hour.

Remove chicken from fridge, and in a frypan put 6 tablespoons canola oil. Fry on medium high heat. Coat each chicken piece by first dipping in spring water bowl then into the wheat flour mixture, then fry in fry pan. Cook each side about 5 minutes till the flour browns.

You can also cook in the deep fryer; same process, just coat each piece, then place in the fry basket; and cook 375 fryer temperature till browned. Cook only a few pieces at a time, half dozen or so, so fryer oil keeps its temperature.

Garnish Your Karaage Appetizer Dish

You can add a slice of lemon and dipping sauces for your karaage chicken. Popular are soy sauce, Japanaese mayo, or sesame oil. Also good is Vege mayo like Hellman's brand and the Earth Island brand.
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