Har Cheong Gai | Shrimp Paste Chicken
Har Cheong Gai | Shrimp Paste Chicken

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, har cheong gai | shrimp paste chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Shrimp Paste Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Har Cheong Gai

Shrimp Paste Chicken is a uniquely Singaporean way of cooking deep-fried chicken! Regular batter is replaced with a special shrimp paste batter, so that the wing packs a punch full of flavour. My first taste of it was at the Loy Sum Juan Restaurant, located at Pearl's Hill (Outram) years ago (a place that probably only old-timers would remember). Great recipe for Har Cheong Gai

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have har cheong gai | shrimp paste chicken using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Har Cheong Gai | Shrimp Paste Chicken:
  1. Prepare 4.5 TBSP Granulated Sugar,
  2. Make ready 3 TBSP Lee Kum Kee's Shrimp Paste,
  3. Get 3/4 Cup Tapioca Starch,
  4. Make ready 3 TBSP Rice Flour,
  5. Make ready 3 TBSP Shao Xing / Hua Diao Wine,
  6. Take 3 TBSP Oyster Sauce,
  7. Make ready 3 TBSP Light Soy Sauce,
  8. Make ready 3 Egg Lightly Beaten,
  9. Take Pinch Sea Salt,
  10. Prepare Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
  11. Get Pinch White Pepper,
  12. Take 1/4 Cup Lee Kum Kee's Plum Sauce,
  13. Prepare 1/4 Cup Lao Gan Ma's Chili Crisp,
  14. Prepare Pinch Dried Mushroom Powder,
  15. Get 1 kg Chicken Flats,

Rumors even have it that Chef Loh made his own shrimp paste. But Lee Kum Kee's is pretty close, I should say. Seriously, who doesn't enjoy the occasional meal of deep-fried chicken? In fact, I find it very hard to resist this local dish of fried prawn paste chicken that we call har cheong gai in the Cantonese dialect.

Instructions to make Har Cheong Gai | Shrimp Paste Chicken:
  1. In a large bowl, add sugar, shrimp paste, tapioca starch, rice flour, Shao Xing wine, oyster sauce and soy sauce. - - Stir to combine well and until smooth, making sure no large lumps. - - Add in eggs, salt, pepper and mushroom powder. - - Whisk until well combined.
  2. Add in the chicken flats. - - Toss and coat the chicken well with the batter. - - Make sure the chicken is fully submerged in the batter.
  3. Cover with cling film and marinate in the fridge overnight. - - Prepare a dutch oven with 2 inches of oil over medium heat. - - To check the temperature of the oil, insert a wooden chopstick. If bubbles start to form around the chopstick, the temperature of the oil is ready for frying.
  4. Using a pair of tongs, gently drop the chicken into the oil away from you. - - Do not discard the marinade. - - Spoon some of the marinade over the chicken to create a crispy skirt. - - Deep fried until golden brown on both sides.
  5. Remove from heat and drain off excess oil on a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with parchment paper. - - In a small bowl, mix plum sauce and Lao Gan Ma's chili crisp well. This will be the dipping sauce. - - Serve the chicken immediately with the dipping sauce.

Seriously, who doesn't enjoy the occasional meal of deep-fried chicken? In fact, I find it very hard to resist this local dish of fried prawn paste chicken that we call har cheong gai in the Cantonese dialect. We love to celebrate a festive occasion with a dish of prawn paste chicken, because it's everybody's favourite. Har cheong gai, is a Singaporean fried chicken dish, consisting of fried chicken wings in a batter with fermented shrimp paste. Har cheong gai is regarded as one of the most popular family fried chicken dishes in Singapore, and is made with fermented shrimp paste (har cheong).

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