Salt and Pepper Fried Chicken. Salt'n'Pepper Chicken (pronounced Yán Sū Jī in Mandarin) is one of Taiwanese people's favorite night market munchies, normally eaten out of a basket or paper bag. The authentic Taiwanese-style salt and pepper chicken uses fried crispy basil leaves to add another flavor dimension to the dish. This quick and easy salt and pepper chicken recipe is a classic that's wonderful as a party nibble or a main course served with steamed rice and vegetables.
Called 盐酥鸡 in Chinese, salt and pepper chicken are basically fried chicken marinated with five-spice powder and served with fried basil leaves.
Wings are fried to a crunchy golden brown and then tossed in a garlic, red chili, white and black pepper mixture, that makes them flavorful and addictive.
In this article, I want to share with you how to produce the glass shattering crispiness exterior with the correct frying It is translated mainly as Taiwanese salt and pepper chicken or Taiwanese popcorn chicken in English, although I do not know how is it related to.
You can cook Salt and Pepper Fried Chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Salt and Pepper Fried Chicken
- It's 300 gr of boneless chicken thigh, diced.
- Prepare 500 ml of vegetable oil for deep frying the chicken.
- Prepare of Batter ingredients:.
- You need 4 Tbsp of all purpose flour and 6 Tbsp ice water, mix well.
- It's of Coating ingredients:.
- You need 6 Tbsp of all purpose flour.
- Prepare 1,5 Tbsp of rice flour.
- It's 1,5 Tbsp of corn starch.
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste.
- You need 1/4 tsp of white pepper powder or to taste.
- Prepare of For the sauce:.
- Prepare 1 Tbsp of salted butter.
- You need 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
- You need 2 of red chili peppers, diagonally thinly sliced.
- You need 2 of bird eye chili peppers, thinly sliced (optional).
- You need 4 of green onions, thinly sliced.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/4 tsp of white pepper powder.
Crispy Air Fryer Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings. These are simplest wings I've ever made, and definitely one of my favorites. When you love simplicity and amazingly crispy chicken skin, then the Salt and Pepper Chicken Wing is the recipe you wan to make in your air fryer. Move over, popcorn chicken, there's a new addictive fried chicken bite in town (if the town is Taiwan).
Salt and Pepper Fried Chicken step by step
- Wash the chicken and pat them with some paper towels to remove the excessive water. Set aside..
- Dip the chicken into batter ingredients..
- Mix all the coating ingredients in a bowl. Coat the chicken evenly with flour mixture. Shake the excess flour off. Deep fry the chicken until crispy and golden brown. Remove from the pan..
- For the sauce: Heat butter in a pan over medium high heat. Sauté garlic and red chili peppers until fragrant..
- Add bird eye chili peppers (optional), salt, white pepper powder, and green onions. Mix well..
- Add deep fried chicken. Stir well with the sauce..
- Serve warm over steamed white rice! Yum! 😋.
Salt and pepper chicken is one of the country's most popular street foods, and unlike chargrilled blood sausage skewers, pork buns. Salt and Pepper Chicken is a Chinese dish. We can find the ingredients of this recipe in any supermarkets. The way of preparing and cooking them is. Salt and Pepper chicken is one of the nicest fried chicken dishes ever - and a close second in my opinion is Fried Chicken with KFC Style Gravy - although both dishes are so different.