Toriten Chicken Tempura
Toriten Chicken Tempura

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Toriten is chicken coated with tempura batter and deep-fried. Karaage is often marinated in soy sauce, ginger-based sauce first, and coated with just the flour (or mixture of potato starch) and deep-fried - no "batter". The fresh Toriten, chicken tempura is especially delicious since the outside is light and crispy, and the inside is so tender. This dish, along with Karaage are two of the local specialties in Oita Prefecture.

Toriten Chicken Tempura is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Toriten Chicken Tempura is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook toriten chicken tempura using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Toriten Chicken Tempura:
  1. Get 1 large Chicken breast meat
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ★ Grated ginger
  3. Make ready 1/4 tsp plus ★ Salt
  4. Prepare 1 bit less than 1/4 teaspoon ★ Sugar
  5. Take 1 dash of each ★ Umami seasoning (optional), black pepper
  6. Make ready 2 tbsp ★ Sake
  7. Prepare 2 tsp ★ Sesame oil
  8. Make ready Batter (or use tempura flour)
  9. Get 50 grams Flour
  10. Take 20 grams Katakuriko
  11. Take 1 ● Egg
  12. Get 60 ml ● Cold water
  13. Get 1 dash ● Salt
  14. Get 1 tsp ● Shochu or sake
  15. Make ready 2 tsp ● Vinegar

Tenderise chicken breast using the back of the knife, or pound with a meat tenderiser. Cut meat into strips and marinate with salt, black pepper, sake and Japanese soy sauce. Add grated garlic and ginger and mix well to season the chicken. A recipe for tempura that softens chicken.

Steps to make Toriten Chicken Tempura:
  1. Remove the skin and fat from the breast meat, and poke it several times with a fork. Cut into 8 strips along the grain.
  2. Put the ★ ingredients and the chicken in a plastic bag and rub in the ingredients. Close the bag and marinate for 20 minutes or more.
  3. Line a cutting board with plastic wrap and paper towels, and lay the marinated chicken pieces on top. Pat dry the chicken with the paper towels.
  4. Mix the flour and katakuriko together in a bowl.
  5. Mix the ● ingredients in a separate bowl. Add the combined flours from Step 4 to the ● bowl and mix with cooking chopsticks. Stop mixing while there are still lumps of flour.
  6. (If you over mix the batter, it'll become doughy and won't fry up crispy. It's fine if it looks like it hasn't been mixed enough.)
  7. Heat oil to 360F/180C in a pan. Coat the chicken pieces in the batter and deep fry for about a minute and a half.
  8. (Don't touch the chicken until the batter has become firm. Once it does, flip the chicken over.)
  9. Take out the chicken and drain them on paper towels for 3 to 4 minutes. Skim the batter crumbs out of the oil.
  10. Return the chicken to the 360°F/180°C oil and fry for an additional 30-40 seconds on both sides. Drain well again, and transfer to serving plates. Serve with mustard or kabosu citrus wedges to taste.
  11. If you fry all the chicken at once, the oil temperature will drop and the batter won't get crispy, so fry in two batches.
  12. Note: Dust the chicken lightly with flour before dipping in the batter to prevent it from sliding off.

Add grated garlic and ginger and mix well to season the chicken. A recipe for tempura that softens chicken. Toriten is a Japanese Tempura style fried chicken. It originated food in Ōita Prefecture, and is very popular there. Any part of the chicken can be used.

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