Description
Korean Fried Chicken Knees is a Korean inspired chicken dish prepared with chicken’s knee, the tiny joint connecting the drumstick to the foot where it is seasoned with gochujang, garlic and ginger, coated with flour then deep fried.
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken
- 500 g chicken knees
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 2 tbsp gochujang
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- oil, for deep frying
Crispy Coating
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1 tbsp chilli powder
Instructions
- In a container that you can cover mix together flour, cornstarch and chilli powder.
- In a bowl combine all chicken ingredients apart from the oil. Mix it well.
- Put oil on wok, fill it up enough for deep frying then heat to 180C.
- While oil is heating, place chicken knees, one piece at a time in the container filled with the flour mixture. Do not over crowd and do it in just one layer. Cover the container then mix it but shaking it up, until chicken is well covered.
- Set chicken aside, do it with the remaining uncoated chicken.
- Deep fry chicken pieces, dropping them one by one into the hot oil, cook for 6-8 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Remove from wok, drain of excess oil then serve.