General’s Chicken

Name: General’s Chicken
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 pieces chicken wings; 1 piece eggplant, sliced thinly into 2x3 inch chips lengthwise; 2 eggs, beaten; 1/4 cup flour, or enough flour for chicken; 1/4 cup flour for eggplant; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 1/4 chilli flakes (optional to include or add more if desired); 2 tablespoon rice wine; 2 tablespoon soy sauce; 2 tablespoon white sugar (adjust according to taste); 1/2 tablespoon vinegar (adjust according to taste); 2 teaspoon flour; 1 teaspoon lemon or calamansi juice; Cooking oil for deep fry of chicken and eggplant (fry separately)

Kat.L @cook_20533950

Best to use deboned chicken but I used chicken wings on this photo.

Kat.L @cook_20533950

Best to use deboned chicken but I used chicken wings on this photo.

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Ingredients

8 pieceschicken wings
1 pieceeggplant, sliced thinly into 2x3 inch chips lengthwise
2eggs, beaten
1/4 cupflour, or enough flour for chicken
1/4 cupflour for eggplant
4 clovesgarlic, minced
1/4chilli flakes (optional to include or add more if desired)
2 tablespoonrice wine
2 tablespoonsoy sauce
2 tablespoonwhite sugar (adjust according to taste)
1/2 tablespoonvinegar (adjust according to taste)
2 teaspoonflour
1 teaspoonlemon or calamansi juice
Cooking oil for deep fry of chicken and eggplant (fry separately)

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Steps

1

Prepare eggplant chips. Cut the eggplant into 2x3 inch lengthwise chips. Layout on top of a kitchen cloth, cover on top with another cloth to dry. Leave for around 15 minutes. Once dry, dredge in flour and set aside for frying.
2

Prepare chicken and batter. Mix the eggs with flour, beat until well incorporated. Dip the chicken pieces in the batter and coat throroughly when ready to deep fry.
3

Prepare the sauce. Mix the sauce ingredients in a bowl except for the garlic and chilli flakes. Sauce ingredients are vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar, flour, lemon / calamansi juice. Taste and adjust sauce according to taste. Set aside.
4

Fry eggplant and chicken. Heat oil in deep fryer or wok. Deep fry eggplant chips until golden / dark brown in colour. Set aside. Remove excess oil. Deep fry chicken until golden brown in colour. Set aside.
5

Serving and plating the dish. 5-10 minutes before serving, saute minced garlic and chilli flakes in frying pan. Add chicken to reheat. Stir to coat chicken pieces with garlic and chilli flakes. Add prepared sauce into pan and let simmer until sayce thickens, mixing well to chicken. Add eggplant chips and stir to coat chips with sauce as well.