Crispy morsels of fried chicken coated in unctuous, irresistible buttery salted egg yolk sauce. What’s not to love?
Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Cooking Time:
30 minutes
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients
Salted Egg Yolk Sauce:
- 4 salted egg yolks
- 1 tsp garlic, minced
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
Chicken Spice Rub:
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
Chicken:
- 2 chicken breasts
- Vegetable oil
- 3 birds-eye chillies (or to taste)
- 20-25 curry leaves (or to taste)
- 1 egg
- 1 cup potato starch
- 20g butter
Method
- Cut chicken breasts into 3cm size pieces.
- Add pepper, sugar and salt into the chicken pieces and toss gently to combine. Leave it to marinate for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, steam 8 salted egg yolks for 10 minutes.
- Once done, mash the salted egg yolks as fine as possible.
- In a pan on a Rinnai Gas Stove or Hob, add 4 tbsp oil to a hot pan.
- On medium to medium high heat, fry salted egg yolks until foamy.
- Then add minced garlic, minced ginger into the mixture and fry together. Once fragrant, set the mixture aside.
- Add 1 beaten egg yolk to the chicken pieces and mix well.
- Pour potato starch on a plate, and evenly coat the chicken pieces.
- In a wok, heat cooking oil to 160°C and deep fry the chicken pieces until golden brown. Once done, drain the chicken pieces and set aside.
- In a pan, melt the butter before adding the chopped birds-eye chilies, curry leaves and the salted egg yolk mixture to fry together.
- Once fragrant, add the fried chicken pieces to combine and coat the pieces with the sauce mixture.
- Garnish with curry leaves and more chilies if desired.
- Serve hot with white or brown rice. Enjoy!