Cooking Mama World recipe
Crunchy Pickled Ume Plum Fried chiken with Shiso Flavor (Serves 4)
- Ingredients
- Chicken breast meat
- 600g
- Pickled ume plum
- 30g
- Shiso leaves
- 10 leaves
- Garlic
- 1 clove
- Ginger
- 1 clove
- Soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons
- Mirin
- 1 tablespoon
- Sake
- 1 tablespoon
- Salt
- 0.5 teaspoon
- Potato starch
- to taste
About Units
g
[g] denotes weight, 100g is roughly 3.5 oz.
About Ingredients
Mirin
Mirin is a weakly sweet seasoning similar to sake, made from Japanese distilled spirits and rice malt. It used to adding sweetness, shine, and luster to food.
Sake
Sake is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting and straining rice, rice malt, and water, and is often used in cooking. When sake is used for cooking, cheap sake with weak aroma and sweetness is better.
Shiso leaves
Shiso is a typical Japanese herb, a leaf similar to but different from Perilla(often used Korean food), with a unique flavor. Shiso has both red and green leaves, When shiso without specified no color means green shiso in Japan.
Pickled ume plum
Pickled ume plums is made by pickling ume plums in salt and red perilla leaves and then drying them in the sun.
How to cook
1.Make the marinade
Stir soy sauce,mirin,sake,garlic,ginger,and salt to make the marinade for the chicken meat.
2.Cut meat
Cut the chicken meat into bite-size pieces.
3.Marinate the meat
Put the chicken meat in the marinade and marinate for about an hour.
4.Cut vegetable
Cut the shiso leaves into small pieces to put on the fried chicken for finishing a dish.
5.Cut vegetable
Cut the crunchy pickled ume plum around seed into small pieces.
**When removing the seed,be careful not to cut your hands with the knife.
6.Cut vegetable
Cut the pickled ume plum into small pieces so that they can be easily attached to the chicken meat.
7.Pick out
Pick out the chicken meat from the marinade for about an hour and put it in a strainer.
8.Put
Pick out the chicken meat from the strainer and put it in a plastic bag.
9.Put
Put the finely chopped crunchy pickled ume plums into the plastic bag containing the chicken meat.
10.Put
Put an appropriate amount of potato starch into the plastic bag containing the chicken meat and plums.
11.Rub
Close the plastic bag with your hand and mix the taste into chicken meats well.
12.Rub
Finish as shown in the photo.
13.Deep fry
Heat vegitable oil and fry when it reaches about 160 degrees celsius. After frying,pick out and sprinkle with shiso leaves.
Tips
After frying the chicken,cut it and make sure it is cooked all the way through.
