Recipe of halal "Chicken Popcorn"

Recipe of halal “Chicken Popcorn”

A Delicious Crunchy Side Meal

Writer: Rahmania Radjadi (www.rahmaniaradjadi.com)

This recipe is one of those easy recipe that I often make at home. I could say that this recipe has included in my “lazy day” cooking list.

Chicken popcorn is a delicious appetizer. I usually cook chicken popcorn as a sidedish to my meal. It’s so crispy and crunchy. Many convenient store in Japan sell chicken popcorn, but you never know if their chicken popcorn is healthy or not. That is why I’m sharing this recipe with you, so that you can make one which more healthier to make one home. If you are a chicken lover, you would not want to missed this recipe.

This recipe is for 4 servings.

Ingredients

2 large chicken breasts
2 eggs
4 garlic cloves
2 cm size of ginger
1/2 table spoon of white pepper powder
1 table spoon of salt
2 table spoon of paprika powder
1 table spoon of granulated onion
corn starch
bread crumbs or corn flakes
cooking oil

Sauce ingredients

brown sugar
tomato sauce
crushed chili powder
salt
pepper
oil

Cooking instruction

Cut the chicken breast into small cubes, put it in a bowl
Grate the garlic to become garlic paste
Peel the ginger then grate it to become paste
Add the garlic and ginger into the chicken then mixed them well
Add salt, granulated onion, white pepper powder, and paprika powder to the chicken and mix them well again
Let the chicken sit for about 15 minutes to let it rest and make the meat relax a little bit
Crack the eggs and whisk it, add a pinch of salt to it
Add the corn starch to the chicken and make sure they all coated
Pour the egg to the chicken that have been coated by the corn starch and mix them well
After all the chicken coated with egg, por the bread crumbs and mixed them well again until all coated
Heat about 3 cups of oil in a pan
Fry the chicken until all the exterior becomes golden-brown
After golden brown take all the chicken from the pan and set them aside

Making sauce instructions

Crushed the garlic cloves and cut it into small pieces
Drizzle about 1 table spoon of cooking in a pan
Pout about half cup of brown sugar to the pan until they melted
Add salt and pepper
Add about 2 table spoons of tomato sauce and the crushed chili powder
Mix them well
Your sauce is ready

To serve the chicken popcorn, you can mix the chicken with the sauce or make the sauce as a dip sauce.
A tip for you when cooking the sauce, taste the sauce so that you can adjust the taste by adding salt and sugar. This recipe is so easy that you should try at home and I hope you enjoy it!