Japanese fried chicken with spicy mayo bao recipe
Today I’m sharing one of my go-to recipe of Japanese fried chicken stuffed inside a pillory fluffy white gar bao smothered in a spicy mayo sauce. Using staple Japanese ingredients that can be found at the Japan Centre or Asian supermarkets. Gar Bao is a Taiwanese street food favourite that can be filled with many different ingredients, the Japanese have their version. Using chicken thighs for juiciness finished off with a squeeze of lemon juice to sharpen the taste. You can pick up frozen ready-made baos from the Asian supermarket.
Japanese fried chicken with spicy mayo bao
Ingredients
2 large pieces of chicken thighs
Potato starch as needed
4 gar baos
Iceberg lettuce as needed
Lemon juice as needed
Sauce marinade
1 tbsp of soy sauce
½ tbsp sake
½ tbsp of mirin
A pinch of salt
Spicy mayo sauce
50/50 ratio of siracha and Japanese kewpie mayonnaise
Remove the skin and fat from the chicken, poke with a fork then cut into bite-size pieces
Make the marinade and coat the chicken for 30 mins
Start steaming your frozen baos for 30 mins
Wrap chicken in paper towels and damp dry
Wash and prepare your lettuce
Start making the spicy mayo by the combine the two ingredients together and mix well
Once it’s ready, heat the oil for deep frying. Just before you fry the chicken coat the chicken in potato starch.
Fry until it’s cooked through usually about 10 minutes then place the chicken on paper towels to absorb oil.
Take your steamed buns stuff with lettuce leaves, fried chicken pieces squeeze a bit of lemon and smother with the spicy mayo sauce.
Hope you enjoy this simple and easy to follow the recipe. If you do try this at home tag and comment to let me know how it went.
Japanese fried chicken with spicy mayo bao
Equipment
- wok
Ingredients
- 2 pieces chicken thighs
- 4 pieces gar bao
- 1 iceberg lettuce
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/2 tbsp sake
- 1/2 tbsp mirin
- 1 tbsp Japanese mayo
- 1 tbsp siracha
Instructions
- Remove the skin and fat from the chicken, poke with a fork than cut into bite size pieces
- Make the marinade and coat the chicken for 30 mins
- Start steaming your frozen baos for 30 mins
- Wrap chicken in paper towels and damp dry
- Wash and prepare your lettuce
- Start making the spicy mayo by combine the two ingredients together and mix well
- Once it’s ready, heat the oil up for deep frying. Just before you fry the chicken coat the chicken in potato starch.
- Fry until it’s cooked through usually about 10 minutes than place the chicken on paper towels to absorb oil.
- Take your steamed buns stuff with lettuce leaves, fried chicken pieces squeeze a bit of lemon and smother with the spicy mayo sauce.
- Hope you enjoy this really simple and easy to follow recipe. If you do try this at home tag and comment to let me know how it went.