Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken 🍻. These Taiwanese popcorn chicken bites are addictively delicious. Taiwanese popcorn chicken is one of many must-try street foods for those visiting Taiwan. Seasoned bite-sized pieces of chicken are fried twice and topped with Thai basil leaves in this Taiwanese-inspired popcorn chicken recipe.

Find all the tricks to making this super satisfying snack! Taiwanese popcorn chicken, also referred to as Crispy Chicken or Salt and Pepper Chicken, is a popular snack often found at tapioca/boba tea cafes. Don't be intimidated by the list of ingredients because it's pretty easy to make. You can have Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken 🍻 using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken 🍻

Prepare 700 gr of Boneless chicken breasts.
Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Cooking wine.
You need 1/2 tbsp of Soy souce.
You need 1 tsp of 5 Spices powder.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Garlic powder.
It's 1/2 tsp of Minced ginger.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Chilli powder.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of Pepper powder.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
You need 1 pack of Tapioca starch.

This popcorn chicken this coated in sweet potato flour (not wheat flour) which gives it a different texture and taste after deep frying. You can also use boneless breast meat but it is comparatively not as juicy as thigh meat. Salt and Pepper Popcorn Chicken, also known as 椒盐鸡块 (jiao yan ji kuai), 咸酥鸡 (xian su ji), or 盐酥鸡 (yan su ji) in Chinese is a popular street snack in Taiwan. Small pieces of chicken, usually chicken thigh, are marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, garlic and ginger and a spice called five spice powder (五香粉).

Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken 🍻 instructions

Cut chicken breasts into small chunks. Place in the large bowl..
Add all ingredients into the bowl except tapioca powder, and mix it up..
Marinate the chicken chunks about 10 mnt..
Place half tapioca starch in the large bowl, then deep the chicken in one by one with tapioca starch. Place it on the plate..
Once powdered process done, cover the plate with plastic film. Put the chicken chunks into the fridge. Leave it around 30 mnt. So the marination would be great and tastier..
Once ready to deep frying process, remove the chicken from the fridge..
Mix chicken chunks with half of tapioca flour. So it would b 2x powdered process..
And now ready to deep frying. Deep fry with 350 F, until half brown. Remove it. Repeat deep frying once more, until golden brown. It is 2x deep frying process, just for crunchies purpose..
We can find 5 spices powder and cooking wine at the Asian store so easy..
Serve it on the plate, springkle with chilly powder and lil bit pepper powder as desire. Its really good..!! 😚😚😚 love it !!.

Taiwanese fried chicken (Chinese: 鹹酥雞; pinyin: xiánsūjī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiâm-so͘-ke; also 鹽酥雞; yánsūjī; 'salty fried chicken'), westernized as popcorn chicken is a dish in Taiwanese cuisine commonly found as street snack and is indispensable to the night markets in Taiwan. It consists of bite-sized pieces of chicken, coated and fried with flour and seasoning mixture. Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken When I first moved to California, I stumbled upon Taiwanese popcorn chicken and it changed my life! The city had several Taiwanese restaurants, and I did not grow up with this kind of food in Wisconsin. I never knew fried chicken could taste so good and differently compared to Western fried chicken.… Taiwanese popcorn chicken is a super crunchy, deeply savory, absolutely addictive snack that is probably one of the best things to ever come out of Taiwan.