Salt & Pepper Chicken Popcorn
An easy and super addicting salt and pepper popcorn chicken recipe. Perfect to be paired with rice or serve as a party food.
Ingredients
Chicken marination
- 300 grams of chicken fillet cubes
- 1 dash of salt
- 1 dash of white pepper
- 1 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1/2 tbsp of honey
- 2 tbsp of all purpose flour or corn flour
- 1 tbsp oil same type of frying oil
Condiments (To be mixed with fried chicken)
- 1 chilli
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 shallot
- 1 green parts of spring onion
- 1 dash of salt
- 1 dash of white pepper
Others
- 4 pieces of lettuce optional
Instructions
Chicken Marination
- Prepare a bowl with chicken included.
- Marinate the chicken with shaoxing wine, salt, white pepper, soy sauce and honey.
- Stir well and add all purpose flour or corn flour.
- Mix evenly and add a tablespoon of frying oil to bind flavours together.
- Marinate for 10 minutes.
Condiments Preparation
- Slice up one red chilli. Remove seeds for better visual dish appearance.
- Slice one green onion (green parts only).
- Chop garlic and shallot in small cubes.
Cooking Steps
- Deep fry the chicken in high heat for 10 minutes.
- Flip the chicken on the mark of 5th minute. Ignore this step if you use more oil.
- Set aside the chicken.
- Use the same wok, remove most of the oil and stir fry condiments.
- Throw in garlic, shallot, green onions and chilli. Sauté it for 2 minutes.
- Turn off the gas stove heat.
- Throw in the fried popcorn chicken.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper.
- Do a final quick stir fry to bind all flavours together.
Plate the Dish
- Optional but plate the lettuce as the dish's foundation.
- Add chicken on top of the lettuce and enjoy.
Notes
- If you don't have access to shallot, use onion as a replacement. Sauté the onion till it turns slightly brown to achieve a sweet rather than a pungent, spicy aftertaste.
- Deep fry the chicken cubes for a total of 10 minutes. Flip the chicken on the mark of 5th minute. If you use more oil, the chicken flip is not required.
- This is optional but in true blue Malaysian Chinese restaurant fashion, I added 4 pieces of lettuce to "dress up" the dish and get some greens into the system.