Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sweet sour chicken (japanese style). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) is something that I have loved my entire life.
A copycat recipe of "Tori Kurozu-An" from Ootoya 大戸屋, this Japanese-style Sweet and Sour Chicken uses black rice vinegar in the sauce to create a deep, malty savory flavor. Sweet and sour dishes from Chinese restaurants are really popular and my children love them whether it's made with chicken or pork. Remove chicken, and drain on paper towels. Brown chicken and remove to plate.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sweet sour chicken (japanese style) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style):
- Make ready 2 chicken thighs
- Make ready 3 midium potato
- Prepare 2 midium size lotus root (rencon)
- Prepare 1/2 carrot
- Get 1/2 onion
- Prepare 1/2 bell pepper (green/ red/ yellow) or mix
- Prepare 1/2 cup potato/ corn starch
- Take Oil
- Prepare For Marinade
- Make ready 2 tbs soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbs cooking sake
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare For Sauce
- Take 4 Tbsp granulated sugar
- Get 3 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- Take 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 Tbsp mirin
- Prepare 1 Tbsp water
- Take 1 Tbsp sake
- Take 2 tsp potato/corn starch
Chinese sweet and sour is a cooking style that is easy, delicious and everyone's favorite. The dish comes complete with crispy fried chicken cubes with mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce. It goes well with steamed rice, fried rice or chow mein. Sweet and Sour Sauce The dish consists of deep fried pork or chicken with corn flour batter into bite-sized pieces and subsequently coated with the sweet and sour sauce that consists of ketchup, chili sauce, plum sauce, sugar, lemon juice and salt.
Instructions to make Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style):
- Combine all ingredients for marinade in a large bowl.
- Clean and cut chicken in bite size pieces and add them to the marinade. Keep aside in refrigerator for 10-15 min.
- Combine all ingredients for sauce making sure no lumps are formed.
- Dice Onion, potato, carrot and bell pepper. Slice lotus root in rings. As potato and carrot takes time to cook, boil them for 10 min or until they are tender. Shallow fry all vegetables until they are tender. Do not crowd lotus roots as they become sticky before getting cooked.
- Take marinated chicken, coat in starch and deep fry until it becomes golden brown. Drain excess oil with paper towel.
- Combine vegetables and fried chicken in a pan, heat them evenly and pour sauce over. Keep tossing, this will thicken sauce n create even coat on chicken and vegetables.
- If you like garnish with coriander and serve.
It goes well with steamed rice, fried rice or chow mein. Sweet and Sour Sauce The dish consists of deep fried pork or chicken with corn flour batter into bite-sized pieces and subsequently coated with the sweet and sour sauce that consists of ketchup, chili sauce, plum sauce, sugar, lemon juice and salt. Some versions of Ku lo sauce contain vinegar instead of plum sauce. This Sweet and Sour Chicken however is a little bit different from the typical one you've tried for one simple reasons, this sweet and sour chicken recipe is the Japanese version of the most known chinese one. In Japan, sweet and sour sauce is called Amazu-An (甘酢あん), literary meaning sweet vinegar gravy.
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