Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, har cheong gai | shrimp paste chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Har Cheong Gai is one of the popular food you will find at the majority of Singapore Tze Char (Zhu Chao), which literally means cook and stir-fry. But har cheong mean shrimp paste in Cantonese. The chicken pieces, usually mid-section of chicken wings are marinated in.

Har Cheong Gai

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

The ingredients needed to make Har Cheong Gai | Shrimp Paste Chicken:

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

Enjoy sinking your teeth into these deliciously flavoured, crispy, battered, deep-fried chicken wings. 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. With Har Cheong Gai, the batter is added to the marinade right at the beginning and then the chicken is left to marinade overnight. I am still trying to figure out why it is done this way.

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.

She told me that to make really good Har Cheong Gai, you have to get a specific brand of shrimp sauce from Hong Kong. Har cheong gai is Cantonese for prawn paste chicken, which is literally what it is; tender, succulent pieces of chicken that are coated with a batter comprising of flour and fragrant fermented shrimp paste before being deep-fried to perfection. There are hundreds of places in Singapore that sell. Prawn Paste Chicken (also known as fermented shrimp paste chicken or "har cheong gai"/虾酱鸡) is one of my favourite local zi char dish. The main ingredient for the chicken marinade is prawn paste (shrimp paste) which is truly "smelly", pungent and will stink up your kitchen (you have been warned.

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