Karaage Salad

Japanese deep fried chicken -Karaage. Why not eat it a little healthy as topping over a couple of vegetables.

I am a huge fan of the YouTubers TABIEATS, two Japanese guys.
The mother of one us lives in Hawaii,  cooks her fast and easy recipes with her son, when she visits Tokyo.

I have done several of her recipes now and they are really good and easy to prepare. I saw the new YT video in the morning and went grocery shopping for the main ingredients: chicken, broccoli and cucumber.
The rest is found at home.

Recipe for 2:
500 g broccoli
1/2 cucumber
4 Spring onion whites
1 Chicken breast
4 tbsp corn starch
Oil for frying

Marinade:
3 tbsp shoyu
2 Tbsp sake
1 Tsp ginger juice
1 Grated garlic clove

Dressing:
4 tbsp canola oil
1 Tsp dark sesame oil
1 Tsp ginger juice
1 Tsp sugar
3 Tbsp rice vinegar


Marinate the chicken first. Cut it into thin strips, it cooks faster this way. Store it in the fridge while you prepare the other ingredients.

Cook the broccoli florets and cool them in ice water so that they keep the bright green colour. Drain.
Cut the white part of the spring onions open lengthwise and take the core out. Lay the onion flat and cut into very thin strips. Put inice water until you need them. That way they will loose the strong onion taste and get crunchy.
Take the seeds out of the cucumber abd cut into small strips.

Place the corn starch on a plate and coat the chicken strips well.
Heat up the oil in a pan to 180 C and in 2 or 3 batches fry the chicken golden brown. Place on kitchen paper to drain.

Make the dressing and assemble the salad, top it with chicken and pour the dressing over.