Oanh’s Air Fried Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken

Name: Oanh’s Air Fried Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2.5 lb chicken thigh in bite size or larger size pieces (1 use one pouch of the chicken thighs from Costco); Thick/textured sweet potato starch for coating (make sure it is not thin/fine sweet potato starch. It must be thick and textured, found in some Asian supermarkets); Canola oil; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tablespoon mirin; 1 tablespoon shao xing wine; 0.5 tsp sugar; 10 garlic cloves minced or grated; Egg white; Optional black or white pepper and five spice

Oanh Luong @o1lovesyou

A mixture of Taiwanese popcorn chicken and Japanese karaage in one. This one is very flavorful. The secret is in the flour type (coarse potato starch

Oanh Luong @o1lovesyou

A mixture of Taiwanese popcorn chicken and Japanese karaage in one. This one is very flavorful. The secret is in the flour type (coarse potato starch

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Ingredients

30 minutes

2 servings

2.5 lbchicken thigh in bite size or larger size pieces (1 use one pouch of the chicken thighs from Costco)
Thick/textured sweet potato starch for coating (make sure it is not thin/fine sweet potato starch. It must be thick and textured, found in some Asian supermarkets)
Canola oil
Marinade
2 tbspsoy sauce
1 tablespoonmirin
1 tablespoonshao xing wine
0.5 tspsugar
10garlic cloves minced or grated
Egg white
Optional black or white pepper and five spice

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Mix all marinade ingredients and let chicken marinade overnight
2

Remove excess marinade and coat chicken in the starch. Let chicken in flour sit for a minute or two.
3

Toss in avocado oil (enough to coat the outside)
4

In preheated airfryer, 4-5 mins and flip and additional 4 mins
5

Lightly Sprinkle chicken with sea salt
6