I cook a lot, and this technique is genuinely unlike anything I've seen before. It makes perfect sense, and the 3 fry technique seems like it could take enough time that you're on the verge of braising the chicken thighs and inducing collagen breakdown for extra tenderness. It's brilliant. Using potato starch is brilliant. Spraying it is brilliant. There's so much more innovation to this video than meets the eye. I've got a whole new level of respect for you. Incredibly well done!
He talks through everything in grams which leaves no room for mistakes if you follow the recipe exactly. I’ve basically become an expert on making pizza from just his videos.
Where's the dancing?? I love Brian's channel because he keeps making good recipes and making it accessible to an audience. He hasn't given in to the temptation of over-photoshopped thumbnails with food "challenges" or rankings (e.g. "I tried every fast food hamburger in the United States). The dude is cooking and helping us be more enthusiastic about it. Props.
Thanks for saying that. Strait up recipe content has been declining a bit on YT so I think some other creators are trying to find the 2021/covid era viewership.
@@BrianLagerstrom I made your enchiladas tonight. Mexican rice last night. Bread last week. I hope the algorithm continues to bless you because your recipes are the best in the game and it’s not close.
Just want to say Brian... We (my wife and I) have tried several of your recipes over the years of watching you, and never once have you let us down. Everything you have presented us with, is easy to understand, execute and tastes good. Thanks for what you do. We definitely enjoy your work (and our own when we follow your instructions).
Yes!!!! 😍 But he answered that question last year in his video called "Opening a Restaurant? Recipe Fails? Revealing Relationship Secrets!". Its at about 30min in.
As a Japanese, this is one of the most accurate and authentic karaage recipes I’ve ever seen from outside of Japan. Just personally, I love using chicken WITH skin for karaage. It adds extra crispness, juiciness, and depth of umami!
Brian - thank you so much for the complete written recipe for Karaage chicken. Not only you included the substitutes but you also indicated both measurements which makes it easier for your viewers to make this very yummy fried chicken in Japanese version. You're the best!
if you compare the picture of your japanes karaage and yours you have that white outer stuff in some spots thats just loose starch and not the crunchy craggly bits you want, you can avoid this by letting the chicken sit after coating so the coating absorbs some of the marinade and sticks to chicken more (less chance of it falling off when agitated during frying) its kinda hard to describe but once the coating doesnt look as "dry" anymore its perfect and you wont get the extra starch just sitting on the outside
I've been making Karaage a lot lately and it's really fun to see the differences and similarities between our recipes. The absolute must with this recipe is straight Potato Starch...the rest you can play with. 😁 Do I have a batch in the fridge marinating? Yes, yes I do. 🤣
I made this yesterday together with some friends and I have to say that every single one of us found it mind-blowing! BEST chicken I have ever had! You are just the best Brian
When you cut from quartered raw chicken thigh to you biting into the fully cooked end product around a minute in it took my brain a half second to catch up and I genuinely thought you were just munching on raw chicken like it was no big deal.
Just finished eating this. 10/10. Chicken was soooooo juicy and flavorful while breading was crispiest I’ve ever had. Like beer battered texture but crispier.
Your channel, Kenji’s channel, Souped up recipes, and just one cookbook are among my top RUclips cooking channels to follow. You’re really good at explaining and making recipes accessible. Thank you so much.
Potato starch is amazing. I've had karaage that was crispy/crunchy over a week after I'd made it and put it in the fridge. Apparently sweet potato starch is crispier/crunchier but it only lasts a couple hours at most.
I’ve never gotten frying chicken quite right, but perhaps this triple fry method I’m reading in the description is the key: I’ll have to give this a go some weekend. Also, recipe idea: Do you have a take on making & maintaining a Ginger Bug for use in various homemade sodas? I unsuccessfully made one last week, so fingers crossed on Day 2 of my new one. (I think I used too much sugar.)
This video really is a godsend since I've recently developed an obsession with this japanese curry place near me that makes absolute bomb karaage fried chicken
Thank you! This recipe gave me the crispiest karaage! I have tried so many. I am going to try kfc next. I am Korean so I am looking forward to it! Thank you!
I just recently made karaage for the first time! My sister & I are both Celiac and it's been AGES since we enjoyed fried chicken. As usual, Brian, your method & recipe are top tier and I can't wait to try!
Fried chicken across countries is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. Ranging from AP flour to mochiko flour to potato starch combinations, plus having the right spices to spruce them up. Great stuff, I think you're spot on with this one (not that you need my approval).
100% on the graphic. I like "let's eat this thing", but I can kinda tell that in the past year or so, he's been feeling tired of it when it comes time to do it at the end of the video. I think that's a good way to maintain his roots while still feeling good about it.
This reminds me of my time enlisted with the Colonel. There was a specific method to breading the chicken that involved pressing the flour mixture into the chicken to help create a better crust. Same with the extra tasty crispy.
I hope the next time you're in NYC you go check out some of the really good karaage spots. I was amazed at how different each place treats this particular dish. And they all taste/feel completely different. They were all fantastic, but the treatment and the techniques, even oil temp was diff 😂
I think texture wise potato starch is crucial, but for taste I think you should mix it at some ratio with flour. I think corn flour (not corn starch) could provide more crispiness. Maybe a blend of 50% potato starch and 25% corn flour and 25% APF.
If you ever get back to Japan, Gramercy Table in Ginza makes a duck Karaage that is absolutely outstanding. They do rotate their menu frequently, but I'm sure it'll be back at some point.
Can you pre-make this by doing the first or first and second fry and then doing the third fry when guests arrive if you wanted to make this for a fun Friday happy hour?
Are you certain it was whale? It's not unheard of for dolphin meat to be sold as whale meat. Both really shouldn't be on a plate. Too many are endangered. Also, there's no tracking down msg. It's sold in almost any grocery store under the Accent brand in the spice aisle next to the salt.
I might be wrong, but I believe by using only potato starch, it’s actually categorised as “Tatsuta-age”! Which I think is such an interesting variant of fried chicken.. hehe :) and I think the addition of potato starch to karaage is much more common nowadays SPECIFICALLY for the texture of crunch :0
It used to be that way but now it is used interchangeably. So they are technically the same now today. Because many shops in Japan sells Karaage but only use potato starch and call/market it as Karaage.
Any notes for rice flower when it comes to frying? I know it and corn starch look similar, and I have used them sometimes in place of one another but, never when frying.
Unironically i love LMNT 💯 its my favorite electrolyte mix and it actually has a good anount electrolytes (unlike gatorade or smth) my favorite is the grapefruit and raspberry flavors
that seems like a great way to fry anything that can stand up to triple frying ... will try next time i make sweet and sour pork, mongolian beef, etc. thank you for making helpful, entertaining, educational and well made videos. I'm making your tonkatsu tonight and the water spritzing the potato starch in this recipe makes me wonder if it would enhance the tonkatsu?
I'll have to try this, very similar to my favorite one right now, by Sushi By Kunihiro. My big problem with both is that I can't use kewpie because I have to cook around a mustard allergy but other readily available mayo don't hit the same.
Karaage is one of those things where you can easily say "What? It's just fried chicken." but once you have a good batch, you realize how game changing it really is.
Brian: Thanks for thuh reply. One more thing: How do you deal with leftover fry oil? Do you reuse? I filter, funnel back into thuh jug, and, try tuh get 4, maybe 5 frys out of a gallon. Wut say you?
Not only that, but sodium is one of the most important single elements of diet for proper function of all of our cells, and glutamate is the conjugate base of glutamic acid, which we need to survive. Granted, consuming it as a salt is fairly high concentration, and there are probably people who actually have a sensitivity (NOT ALLERGY) to high doses of glutamate, as it is a mediator of neurological excitation. But ain't nobody having major reactions to msg. Check the episode of This American Life called The Long Fuse for a fascinating dive into where our societal prejudices against msg came from.
This is a very interesting approach that I'm eager to try. I grew up in the southern US and ate pan fried (rather than deep fried) chicken at home, dredged in flour. It's exceptional, but I am really curious about potato starch instead. I don't deep fry at home, so I wonder if the potato starch will work as well with shallow fat pan frying. I have a bag of it in my pantry from something I tried during the lockdown (but I have not memory of what that was).
lol I do think it should be a staple in people's pantries. Also kewpie mayo is so freaking good. Started putting it on things I never would normally do with regular mayo, like my hotdogs now.
Ngl, I think msg is kinda overrated. It really doesn't go in everything. Ever since Asian food went big on the internet, people have been losing their minds over it
Another great video Brian. I am definitely intrigued and curious to try potato starch for frying, I've always relied on rice flour to achieve good crispness. I am also a fan of multiple fry sessions, that's how the best fries are made. Anyways, great work as always on your video. I definitely have an appreciation for how complicated filming is now that I do it myself
Hi Bri! I’m trying to have a bean girl summer and need your help! Can you share more bean recipes? 🙏🏻I just tried the refried bean tostadas and they were so good
im japanese, and over the years i've been cooking less and less japanese stuff and moving towards chinese and korean things cuz i like em more. karaage is the one of like, two japanese things you just can't beat. the other is beef bowl. and hey, tips for any vegetarians; you don't need meat for either of these. for karaage, you can sub with oyster mushrooms. all the flavor's in the marinade and stuff anyway, and oysters have great texture and hold onto the marinade really well. beef bowl, sub with textured veg protein. the beef used for beef bowl is best when it's nice and fatty, so add a ton of extra oil to compensate. i use a mix of neutral and sesame oil, turns out great.
Karaage has four syllables: ka-ra-a-ge, not three. Just put a glottal stop between the second and third to get kara'age. (At least he didn't call it an entirely different dish through the whole video, like that tonkatsu/tonkotsu mess.)
Made this and, OMW, 12 out of 10! Even better, I don't have to figure out how to make it GF for my gluten intolerant friends. Def will make again, and it pairs excellent with some homemade fries as well. Yum!
Is there a maximum time i can let that marinade? My hope is to do all that prep in the morning, leave it in the fridge all day, and cook it after work. Thanks, awesome video!
I've always wondered what home chefs do with the half-gallon of used frying oil that's leftover. Strain it and re-use it? Pour it in the garbage? I know you can't put it down the sink drain. Just curious how to deal with that particular element. Love ya, Bri!
I'll reuse it a few times, I keep empty oil containers, and will use a coffee filter and a funnel to strain it once it's cooled. I mostly go by color as to when it's time to toss it, as well as smell, but usually 3-4 times is the most I'll reuse. Then when I'm done I put it back into an empty oil container and throw away the entire container w/ the used oil in it.
I cook a lot, and this technique is genuinely unlike anything I've seen before. It makes perfect sense, and the 3 fry technique seems like it could take enough time that you're on the verge of braising the chicken thighs and inducing collagen breakdown for extra tenderness. It's brilliant. Using potato starch is brilliant. Spraying it is brilliant. There's so much more innovation to this video than meets the eye. I've got a whole new level of respect for you. Incredibly well done!
I swear this is the best cooking channel on RUclips
He talks through everything in grams which leaves no room for mistakes if you follow the recipe exactly. I’ve basically become an expert on making pizza from just his videos.
Agreed. The recipes are unique and well thought out. Much appreciated. I have made many many things from this channel and never been disappointed.
Yes I Agree He Kills It Always
Very much agree
100%
Where's the dancing??
I love Brian's channel because he keeps making good recipes and making it accessible to an audience. He hasn't given in to the temptation of over-photoshopped thumbnails with food "challenges" or rankings (e.g. "I tried every fast food hamburger in the United States). The dude is cooking and helping us be more enthusiastic about it. Props.
Thanks for saying that. Strait up recipe content has been declining a bit on YT so I think some other creators are trying to find the 2021/covid era viewership.
@@BrianLagerstrom I made your enchiladas tonight. Mexican rice last night. Bread last week. I hope the algorithm continues to bless you because your recipes are the best in the game and it’s not close.
Yeah I stopped watching JW for those reasons you mentioned
Bri’s food descriptors are always next level. Dude just casually called his fried chicken “effervescent” like it’s normal
Haha I had to whip out the old dictionary there
Karaage is sooooo underrated here.
Just want to say Brian... We (my wife and I) have tried several of your recipes over the years of watching you, and never once have you let us down. Everything you have presented us with, is easy to understand, execute and tastes good. Thanks for what you do. We definitely enjoy your work (and our own when we follow your instructions).
Sooo, when you are writing a cookbook? And obviously it would be called "Let's Eat This Thing" 😍
I second this
This! A million times!
Yes!!!! 😍 But he answered that question last year in his video called "Opening a Restaurant? Recipe Fails? Revealing Relationship Secrets!". Its at about 30min in.
Damn, thats a perfect title. Well done.
As a Japanese, this is one of the most accurate and authentic karaage recipes I’ve ever seen from outside of Japan. Just personally, I love using chicken WITH skin for karaage. It adds extra crispness, juiciness, and depth of umami!
Brian - thank you so much for the complete written recipe for Karaage chicken. Not only you included the substitutes but you also indicated both measurements which makes it easier for your viewers to make this very yummy fried chicken in Japanese version. You're the best!
I always hear MSG makes food better, but never why. Thank you so much for that information!
to be fair its difficult to explain why salt makes food better too other than it intensifies the flavour in a weird way
if you compare the picture of your japanes karaage and yours you have that white outer stuff in some spots thats just loose starch and not the crunchy craggly bits you want, you can avoid this by letting the chicken sit after coating so the coating absorbs some of the marinade and sticks to chicken more (less chance of it falling off when agitated during frying) its kinda hard to describe but once the coating doesnt look as "dry" anymore its perfect and you wont get the extra starch just sitting on the outside
Your Karaage looks spectacular! Thanks so much for doing the research and going the extra mile on perfecting deep frying. I can't wait to try it.
I've been making Karaage a lot lately and it's really fun to see the differences and similarities between our recipes. The absolute must with this recipe is straight Potato Starch...the rest you can play with. 😁
Do I have a batch in the fridge marinating? Yes, yes I do. 🤣
I made this yesterday together with some friends and I have to say that every single one of us found it mind-blowing! BEST chicken I have ever had! You are just the best Brian
Fantastic! Thanks very much for making. Cheers
When you cut from quartered raw chicken thigh to you biting into the fully cooked end product around a minute in it took my brain a half second to catch up and I genuinely thought you were just munching on raw chicken like it was no big deal.
😂 I guarantee he got most of us
That’s just how Bri rolls 🤙🏼
Chicken sashimi is actually a thing in Japan
@@jedbowtell6844 I know, but poultry cleanliness standards in the US make it a really bad idea to have here.
Casually microdosing on raw chicken to attempt to gain immunity to salmonella and bird flu lmao
Just finished eating this. 10/10. Chicken was soooooo juicy and flavorful while breading was crispiest I’ve ever had. Like beer battered texture but crispier.
Your channel, Kenji’s channel, Souped up recipes, and just one cookbook are among my top RUclips cooking channels to follow. You’re really good at explaining and making recipes accessible. Thank you so much.
Are you me? Check out Pailin's Kitchen for Thai recipes. She's also amazing.
Karaage is top tier, everyone needs to try it. Your recipe looks incredible and I'm stoked to try your spin on it.
Potato starch is amazing. I've had karaage that was crispy/crunchy over a week after I'd made it and put it in the fridge. Apparently sweet potato starch is crispier/crunchier but it only lasts a couple hours at most.
Brian, I really love your videos. You and your channel inspire me and my brother to cook more than we usually do. Keep dancing and we appreciate you.
I’ve never gotten frying chicken quite right, but perhaps this triple fry method I’m reading in the description is the key: I’ll have to give this a go some weekend.
Also, recipe idea: Do you have a take on making & maintaining a Ginger Bug for use in various homemade sodas? I unsuccessfully made one last week, so fingers crossed on Day 2 of my new one. (I think I used too much sugar.)
I used shichimi instead of ichimi when I made mayo for karaage, the slight bitterness adds a lot to the creamy mayo.
I thought that you were going to use corn starch here. I am blown away with the potato starch. All the best to you and your family!
I've made this, it is at least as goof as the best Karaage chicken I can find in L.A. WOW!
Every time I want to make something I always check to see if Bri man has a version on here I can trust and follow
Even when your recipe looks like something I'd ever try, I watch for the entertainment value. You're just too cute.
Isn't he, though? I miss the way he dances.
This video really is a godsend since I've recently developed an obsession with this japanese curry place near me that makes absolute bomb karaage fried chicken
Thank you! This recipe gave me the crispiest karaage! I have tried so many. I am going to try kfc next. I am Korean so I am looking forward to it! Thank you!
I just recently made karaage for the first time! My sister & I are both Celiac and it's been AGES since we enjoyed fried chicken. As usual, Brian, your method & recipe are top tier and I can't wait to try!
Karaage is by far my favorite type of fried chicken but I've never tried making it myself, I gotta try this
Fried chicken across countries is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. Ranging from AP flour to mochiko flour to potato starch combinations, plus having the right spices to spruce them up. Great stuff, I think you're spot on with this one (not that you need my approval).
I use Cici Li’s Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken recipe and she uses Sweet Potato Starch, which I find makes a delightful light crisp after a double fry.
This was freaking amazing. The cabbage "salad" needs an upgrade!Pro trick: You can make these up in advance and freeze them before frying.
Brian this chicken looks and sounds heavenly! I love your videos!
I've done 1/2 AP and 1/2 potato starch for a couple years. I will try all potato starch and the triple fry. Looks delish!
Former chef, and people are always asking me for recipe recommendations. I just point them to your channel 😄
These are my favourite videos. I love the attention to detail you go to.
Awesome. Also, well done on the “let’s eat this thing” graphic. Looks great!
100% on the graphic. I like "let's eat this thing", but I can kinda tell that in the past year or so, he's been feeling tired of it when it comes time to do it at the end of the video. I think that's a good way to maintain his roots while still feeling good about it.
Are the 2nd and 3rd fry also at 325F or do you raise the temp? Thanks.
Made this for dinner tonight. It was awesome. Great recipe. Thanks!!
This reminds me of my time enlisted with the Colonel. There was a specific method to breading the chicken that involved pressing the flour mixture into the chicken to help create a better crust. Same with the extra tasty crispy.
That's an incredible crunch on that chicken
Looks really good and the multi-stage fry is such a good technique
I hope the next time you're in NYC you go check out some of the really good karaage spots. I was amazed at how different each place treats this particular dish. And they all taste/feel completely different. They were all fantastic, but the treatment and the techniques, even oil temp was diff 😂
I think texture wise potato starch is crucial, but for taste I think you should mix it at some ratio with flour. I think corn flour (not corn starch) could provide more crispiness. Maybe a blend of 50% potato starch and 25% corn flour and 25% APF.
Hey Bri! Looks amazing and I'm sure it tasted as good! Much ❤ to you and Lorn! 🙂😋😎
Can’t wait to try this, looks really good! Thank you
Not going to be watching any more of your content, until after I have had my dinner, drooling like a dog here.
But also very entertaining
If you ever get back to Japan, Gramercy Table in Ginza makes a duck Karaage that is absolutely outstanding. They do rotate their menu frequently, but I'm sure it'll be back at some point.
Can you pre-make this by doing the first or first and second fry and then doing the third fry when guests arrive if you wanted to make this for a fun Friday happy hour?
Chili mango LMNT is my weakness!! It’s so good!! Been using LMNT for about a year now.
Kara-age is amazingly delicious. It's so good.
I make karage at home, for the starch, try using tapioca or rice flour. I use a 50/50 mixture of both of those and they come out extremely crispy.
If you write a book I am buying it for sure! You are great
Are you certain it was whale? It's not unheard of for dolphin meat to be sold as whale meat.
Both really shouldn't be on a plate. Too many are endangered.
Also, there's no tracking down msg. It's sold in almost any grocery store under the Accent brand in the spice aisle next to the salt.
Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.
I might be wrong, but I believe by using only potato starch, it’s actually categorised as “Tatsuta-age”! Which I think is such an interesting variant of fried chicken.. hehe :) and I think the addition of potato starch to karaage is much more common nowadays SPECIFICALLY for the texture of crunch :0
It used to be that way but now it is used interchangeably. So they are technically the same now today. Because many shops in Japan sells Karaage but only use potato starch and call/market it as Karaage.
唐揚げ美味しいよね
Any notes for rice flower when it comes to frying? I know it and corn starch look similar, and I have used them sometimes in place of one another but, never when frying.
Unironically i love LMNT 💯 its my favorite electrolyte mix and it actually has a good anount electrolytes (unlike gatorade or smth) my favorite is the grapefruit and raspberry flavors
I used to get this all the time for lunch on Okinawa. Very popular.
Any alternative instructions for this, if a deep fry is unavailable and only a shallow fry can be done?
now i'm interested in what 80% potato starch 20% evercrisp would be like...
that seems like a great way to fry anything that can stand up to triple frying ... will try next time i make sweet and sour pork, mongolian beef, etc. thank you for making helpful, entertaining, educational and well made videos. I'm making your tonkatsu tonight and the water spritzing the potato starch in this recipe makes me wonder if it would enhance the tonkatsu?
I'll have to try this, very similar to my favorite one right now, by Sushi By Kunihiro. My big problem with both is that I can't use kewpie because I have to cook around a mustard allergy but other readily available mayo don't hit the same.
I've got to try this one! Looks great!
Karaage is one of those things where you can easily say "What? It's just fried chicken." but once you have a good batch, you realize how game changing it really is.
Bri, what do you do with the oil after frying? What is the proper way to discard it?
Brian: Thanks for thuh reply. One more thing: How do you deal with leftover fry oil? Do you reuse? I filter, funnel back into thuh jug, and, try tuh get 4, maybe 5 frys out of a gallon. Wut say you?
After coating chicken with potato starch, let them sit until the starch soak up juice from the chicken.
FINALLY! Someone else who gets that MSG is safe for you! It's literally created from seaweed!
Not only that, but sodium is one of the most important single elements of diet for proper function of all of our cells, and glutamate is the conjugate base of glutamic acid, which we need to survive. Granted, consuming it as a salt is fairly high concentration, and there are probably people who actually have a sensitivity (NOT ALLERGY) to high doses of glutamate, as it is a mediator of neurological excitation. But ain't nobody having major reactions to msg.
Check the episode of This American Life called The Long Fuse for a fascinating dive into where our societal prejudices against msg came from.
natural doesn't mean safe. cyanide is in lots of fruits and nuts.
msg good tho
All the msg haters don't realize most processed foods they love have msg.
This is common knowledge by this point. It's not 2006 anymore
@@IscariottActual You'd be surprised how many people still fall for the myth that MSG is bad for you. It's sad.
This is a very interesting approach that I'm eager to try. I grew up in the southern US and ate pan fried (rather than deep fried) chicken at home, dredged in flour. It's exceptional, but I am really curious about potato starch instead. I don't deep fry at home, so I wonder if the potato starch will work as well with shallow fat pan frying. I have a bag of it in my pantry from something I tried during the lockdown (but I have not memory of what that was).
Did you try rice flour for the breading? I know it does something different when fried
Who has to go out of their way to get MSG? Accent is 100% MSG and is available everywhere
It’s a requirement as far as I’m concerned for just about everything.
I think he meant you might have to go out of your way to get potato starch.
lol I do think it should be a staple in people's pantries. Also kewpie mayo is so freaking good. Started putting it on things I never would normally do with regular mayo, like my hotdogs now.
I don't think I ever knew that. Why is it called Accent if it's only MSG?
Ngl, I think msg is kinda overrated. It really doesn't go in everything. Ever since Asian food went big on the internet, people have been losing their minds over it
Can it be bulk cooked, frozen and reheated? if so whats the best way?
Next up in the "Asian fried chicken" lineup, you should make Taiwanese popcorn chicken with fried basil! A true night market/boba tea shop classic.
what temperature is the oil for the 2nd and 3rd fry?
Another great video Brian. I am definitely intrigued and curious to try potato starch for frying, I've always relied on rice flour to achieve good crispness. I am also a fan of multiple fry sessions, that's how the best fries are made. Anyways, great work as always on your video. I definitely have an appreciation for how complicated filming is now that I do it myself
Can tapioca starch be a good sub for potato? I just have like 10 different kinds of flour and starch taking over a whole cabinet 😐
Try frying in beef tallow or lard. Amazing
Damn that is a good recipe. I’ll be trying it out on Sunday
Hi Bri! I’m trying to have a bean girl summer and need your help! Can you share more bean recipes? 🙏🏻I just tried the refried bean tostadas and they were so good
Wtaf is bean girl summer
I got all the Ingredients ... including the hard to find MSG. Im super super pumped. Lets GGGOOOOO🔥
Hope you enjoy!
I made this recipe a year ago first time. Delicious
im japanese, and over the years i've been cooking less and less japanese stuff and moving towards chinese and korean things cuz i like em more. karaage is the one of like, two japanese things you just can't beat. the other is beef bowl.
and hey, tips for any vegetarians; you don't need meat for either of these. for karaage, you can sub with oyster mushrooms. all the flavor's in the marinade and stuff anyway, and oysters have great texture and hold onto the marinade really well.
beef bowl, sub with textured veg protein. the beef used for beef bowl is best when it's nice and fatty, so add a ton of extra oil to compensate. i use a mix of neutral and sesame oil, turns out great.
Karaage has four syllables: ka-ra-a-ge, not three. Just put a glottal stop between the second and third to get kara'age. (At least he didn't call it an entirely different dish through the whole video, like that tonkatsu/tonkotsu mess.)
PSA: MSG is available at any grocery store. It's called "Accent - flavor enhancer" and it's by the salt. You've probably seen it.
I feel so proud of my cooking skills that I have everything in my kitchen except the potato flour. And there is a chance I do have that.
I really appreciate the Ethan Chlebowski style ingredient testing.
Love!
Was there a reason you didn't try rice flour/starch? Would it be a good sub for potato starch or more like the cornstarch?
The rice was really bad and didn’t make the cut into the taste test
What do you do with the used oil to reuse it? That's always limited me from frying at home. I don't do it often so it just seems like a waste of oil
Strain it and throw it in the freezer. Reuse it three times. Add a little more oil each time because the food will soak some up.
Made this and, OMW, 12 out of 10! Even better, I don't have to figure out how to make it GF for my gluten intolerant friends. Def will make again, and it pairs excellent with some homemade fries as well. Yum!
Great Video! I'll be making those this weekend. Now to find some really cool Japanese plates!! Lol 😂 I know where I'll get them here in San Diego.
I love it, I will try it👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽!!!
Pro tip: use these as a topping for Japanese curry
Just made this OMG!
Is there a maximum time i can let that marinade? My hope is to do all that prep in the morning, leave it in the fridge all day, and cook it after work. Thanks, awesome video!
Great recipe, but potato starch is a must! Give it a try and compare the two--and you shall become a believer.
Can we use something other than Canola oil?
I've always wondered what home chefs do with the half-gallon of used frying oil that's leftover. Strain it and re-use it? Pour it in the garbage? I know you can't put it down the sink drain. Just curious how to deal with that particular element. Love ya, Bri!
I'll reuse it a few times, I keep empty oil containers, and will use a coffee filter and a funnel to strain it once it's cooled. I mostly go by color as to when it's time to toss it, as well as smell, but usually 3-4 times is the most I'll reuse. Then when I'm done I put it back into an empty oil container and throw away the entire container w/ the used oil in it.