Triple Black Korean Fried Chicken and Waffles
On the back of Eugene Yang's (Of the Try Guys) failure to make fried chicken and waffles, I, as a fellow Korean, thought I would help a bit. by:
For reference how Eugene failed are in these categories:
He failed to realize that Silkie Chicken is more lean, thus he needs to marinade it and cook it for a shorter cooking time.
He used the wrong dipping method. Dry dip, then wet, then that's it.
He could have used rice to make it crispier
He could have made it more evil by making it completely black
He should have made the dipping sauce sweet and spicy.
To be clear he did a pretty good job. He used honey, and used Soy sauce in the place of salt. But I'd have considered a bulgogi marinade at that point for it.
1 tbsp ground white pepper
4 tbsp Black sesame seeds
1/3 cup ground Black rice, made into a black flour
1 lb Silkie Chicken thighs and wings
1 quart of canola oil for frying
Mix the marinade. Put the chicken into a bowl. pour marinade over the chicken.
If you want an extra umami kick, then use guk kanjang, but keep in mind it's super umami and also super salty, so you might want to cut down the amount by a tbsp and add a little water.
Normally I would put in sesame seeds and green onions, but both will burn.
The food science reasoning on this is: A marinade makes the chicken more tender. And the oil should slow down and even out how the Black Chicken is cooked. Black chicken also cooks faster, being leaner meat, so this may help even out the cooking process.
1 tbsp ground white pepper
4 tbsp Black sesame seeds
1/3 cup ground Black rice, made into a black flour
1/2 thumb of ginger, peeled and ground.
1 tbsp black sesame seeds
Combine the wet ingredients separately from the dry ingredients
You're going to take the mairnated chicken and dredge it in the buttermilk mixture first, and then dredge it in the dry ingredients second.
Use an air fryer/fryer to cook the chicken until crispy. Again, be careful to not overcook the chicken. Silkie is leaner and takes less time.
As a side, black ink noodles in a sesame dipping sauce.
Try to undercook the noodle a tiny bit since the noodles will absorb the sauce.
1/4 cup rice vinegar (If you're being "more Eugene" you can use balsamic [black] or pomegranate vinegar [deep red] for the color effect for the same amount)
1 tbsp black sesame seeds
Cook the noodles, and then mix together the dipping sauce. Put the dipping sauce to the side, serve it like soba.
The idea is to up the whole "red waffle" is evil idea by making red fish with black spots that bleed red in the middle. Cue evil Eugene laugh.
1 sweet potato, medium, baked prior, and mashed into a paste. (Red fleshed would be better)
1/2 cup rice flour (Not sweet rice flour. Don't mix them up).
1/4 cup Black Sesame seeds
Black sesame seeds (optional and to taste)
Sweet Adzuki paste (You can buy online or make it yourself fairly easily).
Combine well until there are no lumps the buttermilk and the beet root powder first. Beet root powder has a tendency to clump so make sure it dissolves.
Combine the dry ingredients first: The rice flour, the cinnamon, the baking powder, the AP flour, the rice flour, the sesame seeds, the salt, the nutmeg.
Then combine the wet ingredients, the buttermilk with the beet root powder, the eggs, and the buttermilk. Add the sweet potato in last.
Heat up your waffle maker. (Better if a fish waffle maker)
Slowly combine 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Combine together slowly. Then combine another 1/3 and then the last 1/3rd. When just combined, spray your waffle maker, and do a test waffle. Often the first one is a dud. Let that be.
Add half the amount of the waffle, let cook halfway, add adzuki paste, cook the other half of the waffle, let cook together.
Serve the waffles hot and crispy.
The theory is that when you serve this recipe, it should be crispy, but still have contrasting flavors, yet have colors that aren't neceearily recognizable. Does it break the majority of the Korean rules? Yes. I suppose if you want to make it more colorful you can add a mango salsa, but look... it looks like a dish Eugene would serve.