Chicken Chop Recipe the Hainanese Style
Recipe by Ethan Wong
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Ingredients
Brown Gravy
- 5 tbsp Brown Stock Powder (any brand would do - brown stock, brown sauce powder, etc)
- 2 pcs Tomato
- 200 g Potato
- 2 pcs Onion (red)
- 1 cup Green Peas
- 1 pcs Bay Leaf (optional)
- 1 liters Water
- 1/2 tsp Salt (to taste)
- 2 tsp Sugar (to taste)
- 3 tbsp Cooking Oil
Fried Chicken
- 1 pcs Boneless Chicken Leg
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 nos Egg
- 1 tbsp Water
- 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
- Pre-Mix Fry Chicken Powder (to coat chicken - any brands would do)
- Cooking Oil (to deep fry)
Instructions
Brown Gravy
- Clean and cut potato, tomato, and onion.
- Preheat stockpot with cooking oil.
- Add sliced red onion and fry to aromatic.
- Add water.
- Add brown stock powder and dissolve it with a whisk or spatula.
- Add chopped tomato, potato, green peas, and bay leaf.
- Bring to a boil then reduce heat to simmer.
- Simmer for 30 minutes.
- Season gravy with salt and sugar.
- Set aside the gravy.
Frying Chicken
- With a mixing bowl, add salt, sugar, water, cooking oil, and egg. Mix together to dissolve salt and sugar.
- Add boneless chicken into the marinade and marinate for 30 minutes or more.
- Put a generous amount of pre-mix fry chicken powder into a tray.
- Bring the marinated chicken into the tray and coat marinated chicken with pre-mix fry chicken powder to a dry coating.
- To deep-fry chicken, preheat cooking oil to high heat.
- Put the coated chicken into the oil with the skin side down.
- Once the outer layer of the chicken begins to crisp, lower the heat to medium-low.
- Fry to 8 minutes.
- Check doneness of the chicken by poking through it. As long it goes through smoothly and there is no blood flowing out, then it is cooked through.
Plating
- Place a generous amount of vegetables from the gravy on the side of the plate.
- Gently place the fried chicken on the center of the plate, slightly slanted over the vegetables.
- Pour a generous amount of brown gravy over the chicken and serve.
Nutrition
Calories : 383kcalCarbohydrates : 27gProtein : 14gFat : 23gSaturated Fat : 3gMonounsaturated Fat : 1gCholesterol : 36mgSodium : 954mgPotassium : 483mgFiber : 4gSugar : 7gVitamin A : 390IUVitamin C : 32mgCalcium : 30mgIron : 1mg