Karaage Hen Lollipops – RecipeTin Japan

Karaage Hen Lollipops are a elaborate type of Karaage Hen. They’re crispy on the skin and juicy on the within. Because the title suggests, a hen lollipop comes with a bone as a stick, connected to the meat that’s formed right into a ball.

My Karaage Hen Lollipops are made with hen wingettes by pushing the meat and pores and skin all the way down to the tip of the bone. By eradicating one bone (wingettes have two skinny bones), it turns into a lollipop-like form.

In Japan, it isn’t known as hen lollipop, however known as tulip hen (チューリップチキン) as a result of it resembles a tulip.

Alternative ways of creating hen lollipops

Most hen lollipop recipes use hen wings. I used solely the wingettes (center a part of the hen wing) to make hen lollipops, however you can even make them with drumettes.

Some recipes even use a drumstick, though it will likely be a really massive lollipop.

There are two methods of creating a lollipop form utilizing a winglette or a drumette.

Technique 1: Push the flesh to the broader finish of the bone (away from the tip) by sliding it alongside the bone to the tip. By pushing the flesh firmly, it varieties a spherical form like a lollipop with a bone as a stick. The wingette has two bones inside, so take away the thinner bone to make it seem like a lollipop.

Technique 2: Push the flesh all the way down to the broader finish of the bone (away from the tip) by sliding it alongside the bone, then flip the flesh over to the opposite finish of the bone, turning the flesh inside out. This can make a bigger lollipop than the lollipop made in Technique 1. See the photograph beneath.

Technique 1 makes a compact lollipop that appears like a tulip earlier than opening petals. Technique 2 makes a bigger lollipop that resembles a tulip with opened petals. I personally suppose that Technique 1 is suited to the wingette and Technique 2 is suited to the drumette.

In case you are not fussed in regards to the look, you may go away the 2 bones intact when making lollipops with wingettes just like the photograph beneath.

What’s in My Karaage Hen Lollipops

The substances are similar to that of Karaage Hen besides that every piece of hen comes with a bone. My recipe makes use of Technique 1 to make hen lollipops.

I used wingettes with the tip intact as a result of it’s simpler to make a lollipop this manner than making it with out the tip.

Nowadays supermarkets promote hen wings with out ideas (bought as V-wing) or a combination of wingettes and drumettes (bought as hen nibbles) and it’s not straightforward to search out hen wings with the three parts intact. I generally have to purchase hen wings with all three parts intact on the hen store as a substitute of the grocery store.

Should you can solely discover hen wingettes and/or drumettes, that’s OK. The method of creating a lollipop is barely totally different however the finish outcomes are the identical.

• Hen wingettes with the tip intact
• Corn flour/cornstarch
• Just a few pinches of pepper (elective)
• Oil to deep fry

Marinade

My Karaage Hen recipe provides mirin to the marinade, however I omitted it in as we speak’s recipe to offer it a barely salty flavour.

• Soy sauce
• Cooking sake
• Ginger juice squeezed from grated ginger

The best way to Make Karaage Hen Lollipops

My recipe card makes use of Technique 1. See the video.

1. Make hen lollipops utilizing both technique 1 or technique 2 described within the previous part.
2. Marinate hen lollipops in a ziplock bag for 20 minutes.
3. Pat-dry the marinated hen and coat them with corn flour/cornstarch completely.
4. Deep-fry the hen lollipops for about 6-7 minutes turning them over a few occasions.
5. Switch the hen onto a rack to empty oil.

In case you are utilizing a bowl to marinate hen lollipops, you will want to marinate a bit bit longer. You also needs to flip the hen over a few occasions in order that the hen is evenly coated within the marinade. I added a word in my recipe card.

I like my Karaage Hen Lollipops with the pores and skin facet out (Technique 1), as a result of the skin of the hen is crunchier than the lollipops with the contemporary facet out. Karaage Hen Lollipops are good for nibbles and bento bins too.

Yumiko

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Karaage Hen Lollipops

Karaage Hen Lollipops are a elaborate type of Karaage Hen. They’re crispy on the skin and juicy on the within. They’re nice for nibbles and excellent for bento bins.

Because the title suggests, hen lollipops include a bone as a stick, connected to the meat that’s formed right into a ball.

Cook dinner Time assumes you cook dinner hen lollipops in 2 batches.

Watch the video.

Do not forget to see the part ‘MEAL IDEAS’ beneath the recipe card! It provides you an inventory of dishes that I’ve already posted and this recipe that may make up a whole meal. I hope it’s of assist to you.

Recipe Sort:

Appetiser, Foremost

Delicacies:

Japanese

Key phrase:

hen lollipop, hen wings recipe, karaage hen, tulip hen

Serves: 2 -3 servings

Writer: Yumiko

Substances (tbsp=15ml, cup=250ml)

• 12
  hen wingettes
  with the tip intact (word 1)
• 3-4
  tbsp
  corn flour/cornstarch
• Oil to deep-fry
• Just a few pinches of pepper
  (elective)

Directions

Making lollipops (word 2)

1. Place a hen wingette on a reducing board with the interior facet dealing with up.

2. Lower the interior facet of the pores and skin and the flesh at about 5mm/3⁄16″ from the joint between the wingette and the tip, away from the tip.

3. Maintain the wingette and the tip with each fingers and break the wing the place the flesh was minimize. Reveal two bones by pulling the wing tip down.

4. Place the wingette upright, the tip facet up, and maintain the 2 revealed bones on the high tightly with proper and left fingers (thumb, index finger, and center finger).

5. Slide the fingers down alongside the bones, detaching the flesh off the bones and pushing the meat downwards till you can not slide it down any extra. You need to see a small ball of flesh on the backside.

6. Maintain the small ball of flesh on one hand, with the tip nonetheless intact, and twist/rotate the thinner bone with the opposite hand to detach it from the joint (word 3).

7. Lower the tip of the wing off and tidy up the form of the flesh as much as seem like a lollipop.

8. Repeat the method for the remainder of the wingettes.

Marinating Hen Lollipops

1. Put the hen items and the Marinade substances in a plastic bag (word 4) and therapeutic massage nicely guaranteeing that the hen items are completely coated within the marinade.

2. Marinate for 20 minutes, throughout which flip the bag over and therapeutic massage a few occasions.

3. Take away the hen from the bag and take away extra marinade from the floor of the hen utilizing kitchen paper.

Making Karaage Hen Lollipops

1. Coat the hen items in corn flour/cornstarch. Be certain that the meat is completely coated within the corn flour, together with the cavity.

2. Put oil in a frying pan to 1cm deep and warmth it to 180°C/356°F.

3. Gently place the hen items within the oil. In case your frying pan just isn’t massive, it’s essential to fry them in batches. I fried the hen in 2 batches.

4. Fry for 2½ – 3 minutes (word 5), then flip them over and fry for one more 2½ – 3 minutes (word 5).

5. Flip them over for the final time and fry for 15-30 seconds (word 5).

6. Switch the Karaage Hen Lollipops onto a tray with a rack or lined with kitchen paper to empty oil. Sprinkle pepper over the hen if you’re utilizing it.

Recipe Notes

1. My hen wings with out drumette weighed 670g/1.5lb in complete. After making lollipops for the wings, it weighed 560g/1.2lb. Assuming that the yield proportion of the wingette is 65%, it accommodates 364g/0.8lb of edible portion.

I purchased hen wings and minimize the drumette off every wing in order that I can get wingettes with the tip intact. I used the drumette in different recipes, comparable to Simmered Winter Melon with Hen Drumette and Simmered Hen Drumette in Candy and Bitter Sauce.

It’s simpler to make a lollipop if the tip of the wing is unbroken, however even when your hen wingettes don’t include a tip, you may nonetheless make hen lollipops. See word 2.

You can also make hen lollipops utilizing drumettes as nicely. However I believe it’s higher to flip the flesh to make the lollipop form with a drumette (please learn my publish about two totally different strategies of creating a hen lollipop).

2. In case you are utilizing a wingette with out the tip, you need to use a knife or scissors to chop the connecting tissue on the tip-end of the wingettes as a place to begin to slip the flesh down alongside the bones. The identical technique could be utilized when utilizing drumettes.

3. It seems higher to have a single bone protruding of the ball of hen, however for those who can’t be bothered, you don’t have to take away the skinny bones. You’ll then have a lollipop with two sticks. See the pattern photograph of Karaage Hen Lollipops with two bones within the publish.

4. As a substitute of utilizing a plastic bag, you need to use a bowl to marinate the hen. However it’s essential to toss the hen within the marinade typically in order that the hen items are completely coated within the marinade. The period to marinade hen items in a bowl needs to be about half-hour.

5. The deep-frying period varies relying on the dimensions of your lollipop. I cooked it for about 1 minutes and 45 seconds on either side.

6. Vitamin per piece. It assumes that fifty% of the marinade is absorbed into the hen and the oil absorption fee is 5%.

serving: 35g energy: 81kcal fats: 6g (8%) saturated fats: 1.3g (7%) trans fats: 0.0g polyunsaturated fats: 1.2g monounsaturated fats: 3g ldl cholesterol: 29mg (10%) sodium: 119mg (5%) carbohydrates: 1.5g (1%) dietary fibre: 0.2g (1%) sugar: 0g protein: 5.3g vitamin D: 0mcg (0%) calcium: 3mg (0%) iron: 0.2mg (1%) potassium: 70.4mg (1%)