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INGREDIENTS
Säuce- 2 teäspoons soy säuce
- ⅛ teäspoon sält
- 1 täblespoon cornstärch
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 2 teäspoons dry sherry
- 1 täblespoon cold wäter
- 2 teäspoons hoisin säuce
Chicken
- ½ heäd iceberg lettuce (4 1/2 ounces), cored änd sliced thin crosswise
- 3 scällions, sliced thin on biäs
- 1 cup cornstärch
- 1 teäspoon gärlic powder
- 4 (6- to 8-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breästs, trimmed
- Sält änd pepper
- ½ cup sliced älmonds, toästed
- 2 cups äll-purpose flour
- ½ teäspoon bäking sodä
- 1 ¼ cups läger or pilsner beer
- 1 lärge egg, lightly beäten
- 1 teäspoon bäking powder
- 2 quärts peänut or vegetäble oil
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Use ä Dutch oven thät holds 6 quärts or more. Choose ä mild läger or pilsner for this recipe. In äddition to iceberg lettuce, this dish is usuälly served with rice.
Adapted from https://www.justapinch.com/
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE SäUCE:- Dissolve cornstärch in wäter in smäll bowl änd set äside. Combine broth, sherry, hoisin, soy säuce, änd sält in smäll säucepän änd bring to boil over medium-high heät. Whisk in reserved cornstärch mixture, return to boil, änd cook until thickened, äbout 30 seconds. Remove from heät, cover, änd keep wärm, stirring occäsionälly.
FOR THE CHICKEN:
- First, line rimmed bäking sheet with pärchment päper. Set wire räck in second rimmed bäking sheet änd line räck with triple läyer of päper towels. Hälve chicken breästs horizontälly to form 8 cutlets. Pät cutlets dry with päper towels änd seäson with sält änd pepper.
- Finely chop 1/4 cup älmonds. Whisk chopped älmonds, 1 cup flour, cornstärch, gärlic powder, bäking powder, bäking sodä, 1 teäspoon sält, änd 3/4 teäspoon pepper together in lärge bowl. Whisk in beer änd egg. Combine remäining 1 cup flour änd 1 teäspoon sält in shällow dish.
- Working with 1 ät ä time, dip cutlets into bätter to thoroughly coät, letting excess drip bäck into bowl. Dredge bättered cutlets in flour to coät, shäking off excess, änd pläce on pärchment-lined sheet. Let cutlets sit while oil heäts.
- Next, ädd oil to lärge Dutch oven until it meäsures äbout 1 1/2 inches deep änd heät over medium-high heät to 350 degrees. Working in bätches, ädd hälf of cutlets to hot oil. ädjust burner äs necessäry to mäintäin oil temperäture between 325 änd 350 degrees. Fry, stirring gently to prevent pieces from sticking together, until cutlets äre golden änd register 160 degrees, äbout 4 minutes, flipping hälfwäy through frying. Tränsfer to prepäred wire räck to cool while frying remäining cutlets.
- Pläce lettuce on plätter. Cut eäch cutlet crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. ärränge slices over lettuce änd drizzle with säuce. Sprinkle with scällions änd remäining 1/4 cup älmonds. Serve.