How to make Japanese fried chicken with koji rice salt! Do you know benefit of koji rice?

"Kara-age"!!

In Japan, Japanese fried chicken is called "Kara-age".   At convenient store LAWSON,  Kara-age Kun is so popular.  If you bite both  Kara-age Kun and Onigiri rice ball together, .........."Booom"!!   tasty flavor will explode in your mouth!

So in this article I will share how to make Japanese fried chicken with koji rice salt.

Koji rice salt?  You would have interests on this seasoning once you know how beneficial it is.   Let's check it!

Recipe source: 暮らし上手https://www.kurashijouzu.jp/2013/07/recipe-021/

白ごごはんドットコムhttps://www.sirogohan.com/recipe/karaage/

Japanese fried chicken with koji rice salt recipe instructions

Cut ingredients

Grate garlics and ginger.  Cut chicken legs into bite sizes.

Make seasoning sauce

Put 3 tablespoons of koji rice salt .  Put 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and Japanese cooking liquor each.  And also put grated garlics and ginger and 1/2 teaspoon of honey.

Flavor chicken for one night

Put chickens into seasoning sauce for one night(About 8hours.Too much long time makes chickens salty.), and keep them in refrigerator.

Coat with potato starch

After flavor chickens, coat them with potato starch.

Fry checkins

Fry checkins. 　Be careful not to burn them, and start to fry them with low heat 160 degrees〜170degrees.   ( Because of seasoning sauce, checkins are so easy to be burned.)

After putting checkins in pot, turn up the fire a little because checkins make oil cool.( Keep 160degrees〜170degrees.)

Then fry them 3〜4minutes,  and get them outside the pot.  And keep them stay outside for 1〜2minutes to be cooked with own residual heat.

After that, fry again with 180〜190degrees oil for 1〜2minutes. (To make coating crispy.)

Done!!!           

It tastes Umami mildly and you will want more pieces after one first bite. (I think!)

Ingredients

Koji rice health benefits for person

Improve intestinal condition

Most remarkable feature of koji rice is enzyme. It contains amylase for digesting starch, protease for digesting protein, and lipase for digesting fat.　Three major enzymes are contained in koji rice.

(Wow!   It seems koji rice digests anything in the world! ...)

Amylase create glucose by digesting starch, and it improve intestinal condition. And it causes smooth activity of stomach and
increase metabolism.

So koji rice has good influence on diet indirectly.

Anti-aging

Koji rice contains Kojic acid which is one of antioxidant.  It suppresses generation of active enzyme (cause of aging) , and excites cells. As a result,

(1)recovery from exhaustion, improve immunity

(2)suppress generation of melanin pigment which is cause of spots/freckles

(3)prevent skin from saccharification

From several cosmetic companies, serums with kojic acid have been released.

Koji rice benefits for cooking

暮らし上手 https://www.kurashijouzu.jp/articles/food-recipe/food-recipe-49150/

(1)flavor ingredients/ make them soft 

If you rub koji rice into meat or fish, it reduce smell and fatty. And also it makes them soft because of power of protease for digesting protein.

(2)easy to make soup stock 

Koji rice's enzyme break protein into amino acid which is core of Umami. And it break starch into glucose. So if you put koji rice into soup stock, it become sweet naturally and tasty.

(3)easy to make pickles 

Koji rice make cooking time of pickles short. It increase Umami and mildness.

Koji rice drink

・Amazake with ginger

・Amazake lassi

・Amazake smoothie

・Amazake cocoa

Amazake is made from koji rice.

It is naturally sweet and simple. So it can be mixed any fruits or vegetables to make special drink!

Reference:  NHKらいふ https://www.nhk.or.jp/lifestyle/article/detail/00792.html

マルコメ発酵美食 https://www.marukome.co.jp/marukome_omiso/hakkoubishoku/20190131/10556/

KOSE https://www.kose.co.jp/jp/ja/research/technology/kojicacid/report-1.html

Heart

Did you know where is my koji rice? I put it in refrigerator yesterday.

Tendon

I'm using it for my facial pack now♪