Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken)
Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken)

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Dakgangjeong (닭강정) is a deep-fried crispy chicken dish glazed in a sticky, sweet, and spicy sauce. This recipe uses bite sized boneless chicken pieces, so it cooks up very fast in shallow oil. It's the easiest Korean fried chicken you can make at home! Dakgangjung is a very popular traditional Korean dish and is usually made with chunks of chicken from a whole chicken.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have dakgangjeong (sweet crispy chicken) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken):
  1. Take 500 gr boneless chicken meat
  2. Make ready 125 ml milk
  3. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  4. Get to taste white pepper powder
  5. Take 1/2 tsp minced garlic
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp minced ginger
  7. Get 50 gr potato starch or cornstarch
  8. Make ready 500 ml vegetable oil for frying
  9. Make ready For the sauce:
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce
  11. Prepare 3 tbsp mirin
  12. Take 2 tbsp rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
  13. Prepare 1 tbsp Gochujang (Korean red chili pepper)
  14. Take 3 tbsp honey
  15. Make ready 2 tsp sesame oil
  16. Prepare 2 tbsp brown sugar
  17. Take 1 tsp minced garlic
  18. Make ready 1 tsp minced ginger
  19. Prepare to taste white pepper powder
  20. Take 1-2 tbsp toasted sesame

Mix the rice syrup, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, and mustard in a small bowl. Heat a large pan or wok over medium-high heat. Sweet, sour, & spicy Korean fried chicken. Dakgangjeong 닭강정 Dakgangjeong is a deep-fried crispy chicken coated in a sweet and spicy gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste) sauce.

Instructions to make Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken):
  1. In a bowl, soak chicken in milk. Cover it with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Drain thoroughly.
  2. Cut the chicken into bite size pieces. Season with salt, white pepper powder, garlic, and ginger. Let it stand for 20-30 minutes.
  3. In a pan, mix together all the sauce ingredients. Bring it boil. When it starts to bubble, reduce the heat to medium low and simmer until it thickens slightly, for about 3-4 minutes. Remove from the heat.
  4. Coat the chicken evenly with potato starch or cornstarch. Shake the excess flour off. - Heat the vegetable oil until it starts smoking (more or less 350 F). Divide the chicken in 2 batches. Drop the chicken pieces in one at a time. Fry until light golden brown for 1-2 minutes. Remove from the heat. Set them on a wire rack or a paper-towel lined plate. Do the same thing with the 2nd batch.
  5. Reheat the vegetable oil (350 F). Deep fry the chicken pieces for the 2nd time for 30-40 seconds. You can do this in 1 batch.
  6. Heat the sauce over medium low heat. Add the chicken and stir well until they’re evenly coated. Garnish with toasted sesame.
  7. Enjoy! 😊

Sweet, sour, & spicy Korean fried chicken. Dakgangjeong 닭강정 Dakgangjeong is a deep-fried crispy chicken coated in a sweet and spicy gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste) sauce. In Korea, dakgangjeong is a popular street food dish. You can buy chicken with bones or boneless for dakgangjeong. Nevertheless, the boneless one has become very popular in Korea.

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