Taiwanese Chicken Popcorn

Taiwanese Chicken Popcorn

Meat: boneless chicken lags.

Cooking method: deep-fried.

Recipe:

Ingredients	Unite
Boneless chicken lags	4 pcs
Soy-sauce	200 ml
Mirin	100 ml
Garlic	2 clover
Basil	5 sprig
Salt and white pepper powder	To taste
Oil	2L (depend on the deep-fryer )
Corn starch	500g (depend on how much chicken used)
Whole egg	1 pc

Steps:

1.      Cut the boneless chicken lags into small dice.

2.      Chopped the garlic and wash the basil then get all the leaf.

3.      Heat up oil until 120 C.

4.      Chopped the garlic.

5.      Seasoning the boneless chicken dice with soy-sauce, mirin, garlic and one whole egg for 30 minutes.

6.      Wrap the corn starch with boneless chicken dice.

7.       Deep- fried the boneless chicken dice with 120 C oil until golden color.

8.      Put the basil leaf into the deep fryer for few seconds then remove from the oil.

9.      Add the salt and white pepper on top of the boneless chicken dice.

Reason:

Taiwanese chicken popcorn is one of the most popular foods in Taiwan.  It smells good and very tasty. Especially chicken is the most popular meat in the world.  Chicken lag is tenderer and texture than chicken breast or others. For chicken popcorn, it must be boneless because people are lazy to pick out the bones from the chicken. Using the deep-fried cooking method to cook this dish because we wrap the chicken popcorn with the corn starch and use deep-fried to cook can keep all the flavors inside of the chicken popcorn.