/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Here's the chicken diced up, I had it marinating in soy sauce and rice vinegar for a couple hours

cover that shit in corn starch, enough to make the pieces dry and completely covered

>>14138892
Did you cook this before posting?

Fill up your wok with oil, at least enough to cover the chicken entirely. I don't like using too much oil so I'm frying it in two batches

>>14138922
yes

chicken going in once it's hot enough

>>14138945
You are great. I’m all in.

While our chicken is frying we can get this sauce started. I don't measure anything, but you want to achieve a good balance of salt, spice, sweetness, and acidity, so experiment until you get the balance you like. I would recommend to be light handed with the vinegar and fish sauce - they can make the sauce too acidic or salty very quickly

>>14139036
My easy mode Chinese chicken (Your’s is more involved) is:

1) Debone and skin chicken thighs.
2) marinate overnight in soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onion, fish sauce, sesame seed oil.
3) fry in a small amount of oil.
4) make noodles or rice.

>>14139092
Oh, I also change up the veg I do with the chicken. Something nice is to thinly slice onion and celery. I also always do some sort of green on the side.

>>14138878
it's always cute to see someone's first attempt at green texting

>>14138945
all my hatred for you is taken back from you not being an idiot. you cook it all while taking pictures and then eat it and posts pictures here last.

>>14139063
I change my mind. you are now a bad thread and I will sage you. fuck you and your terrible thread. why did you think anyone wanted to see this?

Here's the chicken after frying - however, we're going to wind up frying it twice. So I take it out of the oil and do the 1st fry on the second batch.

>>14139092
that's definitely the quicker way yeah

>>14139118
it's always cute to see someone's first attempt at shitposting

>>14139133
Why would you make a comment about his green text then? That’s off base and has nothing to do with his posting while cooking, which is what I was worried about.

>>14138892
I often see egg whites being used in Chinese marinade, I thought they were important to make the 'velveting' process work

>>14139133
Haha. Eat it.
>>14139148

>>14139148
who are you quoting

>>14139164
I’m not op, but I’ve only used corn starch to velvet. No egg whites or wash.

>>14139174
Good to know. I wonder what the egg whites I always see are actually for then

>>14139171
Dude, you messed that up too. I hate summer.

>>14139155
what a worthwhile post you made, retard.

you also used your comma incorrectly.

>>14139185
yeah bro

are you protected

back to the sauce, get yourself a saucepan and put in a little bit of sesame oil. Once it's hot throw in your sauce and cook it for a minute or two, then throw in some chicken broth and reduce. If you want a thicker sauce add in corn starch, which I do not do. You could also add in orange juice for orange chicken, or lime juice, or mirin, or whatever the fuck you want

>>14139164
I haven't heard of that before, but I'm definitely no expert. I'll have to look into that

>>14139187
Haha. Go back to school and learn syntax.

>>14139197
You didn’t even use any punctuation here.

>>14139231
sorry, I have protection

>>14139205
How think is your sauce if you don’t add a thickener?

>>14139238
That’s good. It’s important you don’t procreate.

>>14139246
good job lmao. you call me summer and you can't even answer that?

second fry done, it's much crispier now

>>14139267
you said you cooked this before posting. you lied.

drain the oil. aromatics in

Damn is that crunch on Chinese style chicken really just corn starch?

Brolic

aaaaaaand thats about it

>>14140009
thanks anon, good thread

>>14140009
well done. looks tasty

>>14138878
i like that you broke up the ingredients list so i could just skim it

>>14139171
damn you're stupid.

Thanks for the thread OP
>>14138945
>>14139092
You two both mention frying in oil. I'm assuming you both mean vegetable oil and not frying in sesame right?

Where is the MSG?

>>14140009
very nice thread op! I enjoyed!

Seems good, I am in the mood for that Chinese chicken and may try this later.

>>14141510
Yeah the frying was done with canola oil, there's a little bit of sesame oil in the sauce

>>14141580
My fish sauce already had msg in it

>>14140009
fuck yeah

>>14139092
>easy mode
>doesn't buy skinless/boneless chicken thighs

>>14138878
>>14140009
Looks good anon. Thanks for sharing.

>>14141739
You can still add more msg