Korean Fried Chicken - Honey butter and Yangnyum flavours
I was really craving fried chicken and I thought why not try making it at home.. for once. Usually I don’t bother and I end up finding it somewhere. I think my fav so far was the Korean fried chicken I had in Los Angeles’s Korea town in May - so good I went back twice in the same week! Then again, I love Korean food! Prob my fav, go to!
Right, let’s get cracking... here we go.
Note, I was lazy so went down to my local Sainsbury’s to buy chicken legs and two breast fillets as they don’t sell chicken wings - sad I know. But next time I would use chicken wings and pick them up from a big supermarket instead because the leg meat is so thick that it’s harder to fry! Breast is OK if you want a few boneless pieces, but i prefer the mini fillet breasts you can get from the supermarket. Unfortunately I made this on a day where my local supermarket had nothing that I wanted/needed in stock!
So i used 2 x breast for my yangnyum fried chicken, but the recipe below should cover your box of chicken wings!
Ingredients:
For Yangnyum flavour
1 x box chicken wings (most you get 20?)
2 x tbsp rice wine
a handful of fresh minced ginger
1 x tbsp salt
1/2 x tbsp pepper
corn starch
vegetable oil for frying
For the sauce:
3 x tbsp ketchup
4 x tbsp gochujang (Korean chilli paste which you can get from local oriental supermarket)
2 x tbsp honey
2 x tbsp soy sauce
4 x tbsp brown sugar
2 x tbsp minced garlic
Method:
Wash the chicken wings and cut the wing off from the little drumstick. Place these in a bowl with the rice wine, ginger, salt and black pepper and mix well.
Using a bowl, coat the chicken wings in corn flour.
Heat up the oil and once the oil is hot enough, add a few pieces of chicken to deep fry - do not overload the pot/pan! Turn the chicken to ensure both sides are cooked - should take around 5 mins for chicken wings (they will be fried again so don’t worry). Note, as we are only two here, I try not to waste so much oil and end up using a smaller pot to deep fry in.
Place the fried chicken on kitchen towel to remove the excess oil. Continue this process until all pieces of chicken are cooked. Once the first round of frying is done, remove any left over debris from the oil and fry them again, this time only for 2 or 3 mins). Remove these from the oil and place on kitchen towel again. Set aside.
In a separate medium pan, gather all the sauce ingredients and heat this up. Let this bubble and taste it. You may need to add some more of the ingredients so taste and see you preference.
Once you are happy with the flavour, add the fried chicken wings in a few at a time and coat the wings with the sauce. Place onto place and repeat until you have coated all chicken wings.
That’s pretty easy right? Now, honey butter is more or less the same thing but the ingredients are different.
For Honey butter
1 x box chicken wings
1 x teaspoon chicken powder
1 x tbsp rice wine
splash of sesame oil
corn flour
1 x beaten egg
pinch of salt and pepper
1 x tbsp garlic powder
vegetable oil for frying
For the sauce:
6 x tbsp butter
3 x finely chopped garlic
1 x tbsp honey
1 x tbsp soy sauce
Method:
Wash the chicken wings and cut the wing off from the little drumstick. Place these in a bowl and season lightly with chicken powder, salt, pepper, rice wine, garlic and sesame oil.
Using a bowl, coat the chicken wings egg and then coat in corn flour.
Heat up the oil and once the oil is hot enough, add a few pieces of chicken to deep fry - do not overload the pot/pan! Turn the chicken to ensure both sides are cooked. (they will be fried again so don’t worry).
Place the fried chicken on kitchen towel to remove the excess oil. Continue this process until all pieces of chicken are cooked. Once the first round of frying is done, remove any left over debris from the oil and fry them again, this time only for 2 or 3 mins). Remove these from the oil and place on kitchen towel again. Set aside.
In a separate medium pan, gather all the sauce ingredients and heat this up. Let this bubble and taste it. You may need to add some more of the ingredients so taste and see you preference.
Once you are happy with the flavour, add the fried chicken wings in a few at a time and coat the wings with the sauce. Place onto place and repeat until you have coated all chicken wings.
Let me know if you give this a go.. enjoy!
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