Dak gangjung (닭강정) Sweet and spicy chicken

 Aloha~

Today, I'd like to share a fried chicken recipe.

Korean people really likes fried chicken as much as American does.

However, we have so many different types of fried chicken.

KFC??? Please go home. No offense but there are so many other yummy things to try in Korea.

Spicy fried chicken, soy sauce fried chicken, baked chicken with Chinese medicine sauce, pop corn chicken...a lot!!

One of the most famous kind is Dak gangjung.

Dak gangjung

Dak(chicken) gangjung(boiling down with some sweet sauce) is light fried boneless chicken with yummy sauce.You can topping with crushed peanut or sesame seed.

I added rice cake for fun.

<<Ingredients>>

chicken breast-2 pieces (chicken thigh is even better)

(marinate sauce : sake-2Tb, soy sauce-1Tb, ginger powder -1/2Tb, pepper)

chicken batter-1/2cup or more starch powder

rice cake-10 (if you have)

<<For the sauce>>

gochujang(Korean pepper paste), ketchup, any jam(NOT citrus kind), Tabasco, soy sauce, Mirin, honey,minced garlic - each 1Tb (It's spicy. you may change Tabasco to just  ketchup)

sesame oil-1/2Tb

<<For the topping>>

any kind of crushed nut or fried sesame seed 

  I used this coastal range organic chicken breast from Costco.

Please note that chicken thigh tastes a lot better.

Cut the chicken for one bite size and marinate over 30min.

Mix all the ingredients for the sauce.

After 30 min of marinate, mix with starch.

 Deep fry the chicken.

Once....

And put them all back into the pan.

Fry twice. then you are all ready.

Deep frying  rice cake is very dangerous. 

It pops like popcorn.

Try not to over fry to prevent stone hard outside.

Get rid of extra oil with the kitchen towel.

Boil the sauce in non stick pan and stir the chicken and rice cake.

You are coating those with the sauce.

When the sauce covers every ingredients,,,

 

Voila!!!

Yummy yummy chicken.

I'm warning you. It's SPICY!!!!

Yub!!! You need a bottle of nice beer.

Dak gangjung and whole wheat tomato pizza + beer!!!

If anybody ask if you like fried chicken, now you can say 

"Yes, I like dak gangjung"

Have a nice day.