Nam Yue (Fermented Red Beancurd) Fried Chicken
Nam Yue (Fermented Red Beancurd) Fried Chicken
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Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken whole legs
- Marinade:
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 20 g sugar
- 20 g belacan, or shrimp paste
- 1 egg
- 100 g rice flour
- 40 g potato starch
- 10 g chili powder
- 1 red fermented beancurd
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Cut the chicken into pieces, wash and drained.
- Mix marinade ingredients well in a bowl.
- Combine chicken with the marinade in a big bowl or container. Leave to marinade for at least 3 hours or preferably overnight.
- Deep fried marinated chicken in a wok of hot oil over low heat until cooked through. Remove and drained. Then serve.
Instructions
Enjoy!
Notes
To deep fry nam yue chicken:
First cut chicken into pieces.
Prepare the ingredients needed to marinade the chicken.
Mix well all the ingredients in a bowl.
Combine chicken with the marinade in a big bowl or container. Leave to marinade preferably overnight.
To fry the chicken, heat up oil in wok until very hot. Then lower the temperature.
In batches, add in the marinated chicken, one by one into the hot oil.
Turn and fry the chicken on the other side until done.
Drain the fried chicken on strainer.
Remove onto kitchen paper to drain. Continue to fry the second batch of chicken until done.
And we’re done! Transfer onto serving plate, garnished and serve immediately.
This is certainly something special and very Asian too.
SO ENJOY!
