Crispy Japanese Fried Chicken Tori Karaage Air Fried Food

AIR FRYER KARAAGE (JAPANESE FRIED CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Cut chicken thighs roughly into cubes about 1.5 inches long
• In a bowl, mix soy sauce, sake, ginger, garlic, and sesame oil to form the marinade.
• Pour marinade over chicken, mixing well, and put in fridge to marinate at least 30 minutes, but preferably overnight.
• When ready to fry, preheat your air fryer to 390 degrees.
• Meanwhile, whisk flour, potato starch, and salt.
• Remove chicken from marinade and dredge in the dry ingredients.
• Place chicken evenly spaced in the preheated air fryer. Spray liberally with canola oil spray.
• Place in air fryer at 390 degrees F for 10-12 minutes, shaking and spraying again with oil about halfway through.

JAPANESE-STYLE DEEP FRIED CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix together eggs, salt, pepper, sugar, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce, and bouillon. Add chicken pieces, and stir to coat. Cover, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Remove bowl from refrigerator, add potato starch and rice flour to meat, and mix well.
• In a large skillet or deep fryer, heat oil to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C). Place chicken in hot oil, and fry until golden brown. Cook meat in batches to maintain oil temperature. Drain briefly on paper towels. Serve hot.

TORI NO KARA-AGE (DEEP FRIED CHICKEN NUGGETS)

Steps:

• In a medium sized bowl, mix together the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, salt and pepper.
• Place the chicken in the mixture and let sit for 30 minutes.
• Mix the corn flour with the plain flour.
• Take each piece of chicken from the marinade and roll in the flour mixture until it is coated completely.
• Heat the oil to 180 degrees C (350 degrees F) and deep-fry the chicken pieces for 4-5 minutes or until golden brown.
• Serve on a bed of salad garnished with a lemon.

KARAAGE (JAPANESE FRIED CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Mix garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sake, mirin, sesame oil, black pepper, cayenne, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Place chicken in the marinade and mix until thoroughly and evenly coated. Cover and refrigerate for 1 to 10 hours.
• Set up your dredging station: Place a wire rack over a foil-lined baking sheet. Add potato starch to a wide, shallow bowl.
• Remove chicken from the refrigerator. Stir to coat with marinade. Toss 2 or 3 pieces at a time in the potato starch until evenly coated. Shake off any excess starch and place chicken on the wire rack. Repeat to dredge remaining pieces.
• Tap the rack on the baking sheet to remove any loose chunks of starch, then transfer the baking sheet and rack of chicken to the refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes.
• Heat oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Without crowding, lower chicken carefully into the hot oil in batches. Fry, tossing occasionally, until cooked through and the outside is crunchy and browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. Repeat with remaining chicken.

JAPANESE FRIED CHICKEN (TORI KARAAGE)

Steps:

• Mix together soy, sake, garlic and ginger. Add chicken to soy mixture and marinate for at least an hour. Heat oil in medium size saucepan. Drain extra liquid from chicken and coat with potato flour. Cook chicken in oil in small batches until golden brown and floating on the surface of the oil. Allow to rest for five minutes and serve.

JAPANESE CRISPY FRIED CHICKEN - KARA-AGE

Steps:

• Cut chicken in bite size pieces. In a plastic container or large ziploc bag, combine grated ginger, garlic, soy sauce and Sake.
• Put the chicken in the marinade and mix chicken well. Put the chicken in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.
• In a deep frying pan or a wok, heat vegetable oil to 180 degree Celsius or 350°F
• Dust the chicken with potato starch and fry in the oil until golden. To make them really crispy, lift chicken from the oil with chopsticks or tongs from time to time so that the chicken will be aired out (so to speak).