Hey Hive!
We're back with more of our home cooking! If you're unfamiliar with this series, it's where I showcase some of the recipes we've been trying at home since we've been cooking a lot nowadays! Also I'm running out of content so yeah gotta make the most of it!
So one recipe I've been meaning to try for a long time is Chicken Katsu! We bought this packet of Panko bread crumbs a long time ago and have yet to try and use it so when I found this pretty simple recipe of homemade chicken katsu from one of my favourite websites, Rasa Malaysia, I had to give it a try!
The recipe itself is pretty simple, and I had all the ingredients already except the chicken breast that we bought fresh from the supermarket for this meal. The recipe also outlines how to make katsu sauce from scratch, but I thought it'd be easier to just buy it. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any form of katsu sauce at the nearby grocery store, and they didn't even have Worcestershire sauce for this recipe either. It was pretty sad, but I guess we'd have to eat it without sauce for today.
Then again, it was also going to be my first time trying to deep fry so I was quite nervous about how it would turn out but I was excited to make chicken katsu so I tried my best!
These were the ingredients that I used:
- boneless chicken breast
- panko bread crumbs
- salt
- black pepper
- 2 eggs
- oil (for frying)
Sean bought some Korean BBQ sauce thinking we could use that instead since the ingredients were pretty similar to Katsu sauce but it was actually a marinade so there was no way we could use it.
Step 1: Wash and cut the chicken breast into strips.
Step 2: Season the strips with salt and black pepper.
The recipe then calls to let the chicken stand for 10 minutes for some reason.
Step 3: Beat 2 eggs in a bowl and pour breadcrumbs onto a plate.
Once that is done, you should have your kit ready to make the panko breaded chicken!
Step 4: Heat up a pot of cooking oil for deep-frying. Ideal temperature is about 350°F (180°C). Unfortunately my induction cooker doesn't have that exact temperature so I chose 160°C instead.
Step 5: Time to try breading the chicken! Dip the strips in the egg then immediately coat it in the panko bread crumbs.
Shake off the excess. Dip the chicken into the egg again, and then coat with the panko for the second time. Make sure that the chicken is evenly coated with a thick layer of panko.
Repeat for the other pieces of chicken.
Eventually, we get 3 chicken strips very well coated in panko, ready to be fried!
Step 6: Carefully place each piece of chicken into the pot of oil.
Deep fry until both sides are golden brown. I think it was actually better to start with a lower temperature since there's less oil splatter and also it ensures that the inside of the chicken is cooked.
Step 7: I turned up the heat at the last part once both sides were slightly browned to make it more crispy on the outside.
And finally, we get this!
The chicken turned out gorgeous! And deep frying wasn't so bad after all! I got little to no splatter and the chicken looked and smelled absolutely delicious! It didn't come out burned either!
Now for the moment of truth, the slice!
I didn't take a video sadly, but you could hear the crunch of the crust when slicing the chicken and it was perfection. chef's kiss And the inside was nicely cooked as well!
I thought it might've turned out a little dry but nope! It was still nice and juicy on the inside and the outside was deliciously crispy! The seasoning was also just right, we didn't really need sauce after all! We ate our chicken with our regular rice and vegetables.
All in all, I'd say that was a very successful first attempt at chicken katsu and deep frying as a whole! It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be and the results were amazingly yummy! I was definitely looking forward to trying out more recipes now that I had a whole new cooking technique to explore, so look forward to more!
Thanks so much for reading!
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