The Taste of Oita Chicken Tempura
The Taste of Oita Chicken Tempura

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, the taste of oita chicken tempura. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for The Taste of Oita Chicken Tempura. This is the Oita chicken tempura that I have been making for decades. I've changed bits and pieces of the recipe over the years but here's the final version. I think the recipe is different depending on the family and restaurant.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have the taste of oita chicken tempura using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make The Taste of Oita Chicken Tempura:
  1. Get 2 Chicken breasts
  2. Get 1 tbsp ●Sake
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp ● Shiro-dashi (or usukuchi soy sauce)
  4. Get 1 tsp ●Garlic (grated)
  5. Take 1 tsp ●Ginger (grated)
  6. Get 100 ml Cake flour
  7. Take 1/2 Beaten egg
  8. Take 100 ml Cold water
  9. Take 1/2 tsp Baking powder (if you have it)
  10. Make ready 1 Frying oil
  11. Prepare Dipping sauce / Condiments
  12. Take 1 Ponzu, vinegar & soy sauce, tentsuyu tempura dipping sauce, mustard, yuzu pepper paste

The chicken breast is so tender and the garlic really brings out the flavor. Chicken tempura is called toriten, and is the specialty of Oita Prefecture in the southern part of Japan. What makes toriten different from karaage, the more common Japanese deep-fried chicken? The chicken used for toriten is covered in batter prior to deep frying, meanwhile for karaage the chicken is marinated with flour before deep frying.

Instructions to make The Taste of Oita Chicken Tempura:
  1. Take the breast meat and remove any fat before cutting into bite-sized pieces.
  2. Add the meat and the ingredients marked with ● into a thick plastic bag and rub together. Leave to chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  3. Add the cake flour and baking powder to a bowl and mix together with a whisk (or simply sift together).
  4. In a separate bowl, combine the beaten egg and water and mix the flour mixture into it in 3 goes with cooking chopsticks. It's better not to over-mix, so don't worry if there are a few lumps remaining.
  5. Coat the chicken in the mixture from step 4 and fry in oil heated to around 180℃. Flip over once during cooking. Please refer to the hints section about this.
  6. Arrange the fried chicken on a plate and you're done. In our house we serve it with a vinegar soy sauce mixture and Japanese mustard.
  7. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

What makes toriten different from karaage, the more common Japanese deep-fried chicken? The chicken used for toriten is covered in batter prior to deep frying, meanwhile for karaage the chicken is marinated with flour before deep frying. The former, an Oita original, is of bite-sized chunks of chicken seasoned with sake, garlic powder and ginger, rolled in flour and then deep fried in a tempura style. Served with a salad, a garnish of kabosu citrus fruit, mustard and ponzu, a citrus and soya-based dipping sauce, it has a soft bite and makes an inexpensive and filling meal. Just like Japan's renowned fried chicken, the chicken is marinated in soy sauce and garlic, and then.

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