Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, dakgangjeong (sweet crispy chicken). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The dakgangjeong recipe uses bite sized boneless chicken pieces, so it cooks up very fast for a quick snack! The easiest Korean fried chicken recipe you can make! Dakgangjeong (닭강정) is a deep-fried crispy chicken dish glazed in a sticky, sweet, and spicy sauce.
Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook dakgangjeong (sweet crispy chicken) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken):
- Get boneless chicken meat
- Make ready milk
- Make ready salt
- Prepare white pepper powder
- Get minced garlic
- Make ready minced ginger
- Get potato starch or cornstarch
- Prepare vegetable oil for frying
- Get For the sauce:
- Make ready soy sauce
- Take mirin
- Prepare rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Prepare Gochujang (Korean red chili pepper)
- Prepare honey
- Get sesame oil
- Make ready brown sugar
- Get minced garlic
- Take minced ginger
- Make ready white pepper powder
- Take toasted sesame
Sweet and crispy fried chicken Dakgangjeong 닭강정 Dakgangjung is a very popular traditional Korean dish and is usually made with chunks of chicken from a whole chicken. Dakgangjeong is deep fried chicken covered with sweet and spicy sauce. Here you can taste the crispy chicken and sweet yet spicy flavor of the gochujang which is a Korean red chili pepper paste. Dakgangjeong consists of Korean two words, Dak and Gangjeong.
Instructions to make Dakgangjeong (Sweet Crispy Chicken):
- In a bowl, soak chicken in milk. Cover it with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Drain thoroughly.
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces. Season with salt, white pepper powder, garlic, and ginger. Let it stand for 20-30 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Heat the sauce over medium low heat. Add the chicken and stir well until they’re evenly coated. Garnish with toasted sesame.
- Enjoy! 😊
Dak means chicken and Gangjeong means sweet brittle like peanut brittle. Dakgangjeong should be crispy, crunchy, sweet and spicy. You can buy chicken with bones or boneless chicken for Dakgangjeong, but, boneless chicken Dakgangjeong is much more common. It is a popular Korean street. Coat the chicken evenly with corn starch.
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