Korean Fried Chicken Recipe - BonChon
Welcome back to another cooking video.
Today I’m going to show you how to makesome really delicious chicken wings.
They are a Korean style chicken wing.
Now the first time I encountered these waswhen I went to Thailand, I was on holiday
there with my girlfriend and I went to Bangkokand we walked passed a restaurant and it had
a queue of like 50 people every single dayand it was just mad.
It was an entire system with a TV, with Koreansymbols on it and you didn’t know what was
going on, but eventually we got a table.
At the end of the day the restaurant was calledBonChon and they literally nothing leftover,
this was the end of the day.
They only had chicken thighs and you couldchoose between two sauces, soy garlic or hot
and we chose both.
When they arrived oh my god, so tasty, itwas like the best chicken I have ever had
ever in my life.
And the hot one it was so spicy it hurt toeat but you just kept eating it because it
was so darned tasty.
By the end I was like in tears, but they weretears of joy because it was just so good.
We went there like two more times and thenwhen I finally came back home I started trying
to recreate this from memory and I’ve gota lot of experience with Asian kind of sauces
and Korean style sauce, I’ve made a couplein the past.
I feel like I got it pretty spot on but overtime I’ve been refining it looking on the
internet seeing what other people are doingand right now it’s a really, really good
replica of it.
So I am here now to share with you.
Hopefully you enjoy this recipe, let’s getcooking.
Let’s do this!
Alright so here I’ve got all my ingredientsto make my sauce.
I’m going to start off by taking 70-gramsof brown sugar and putting it into a sauce
pan.
125-grams of soy sauce followed by 80-gramsof mirin which is a rice wine, and 35-grams
of rice vinegar and 50-grams of water.
Now I’m going to take two garlic clovesand just place them into a crusher and just
crush them in.
Now these are about medium size garlic clovesand they weigh about 7-grams in total.
Just put that in there, now to add a littlebit of ginger.
I’m just going to peel it using a spoon,it’s the quickest and best way to peel your
ginger.
Once it’s peeled you’re just going towant to take a grater and grate some of this
into your sauce.
You’re not going to need much, about halfa teaspoon will do.
Just grate it until you’ve got the rightamount and just scoop that in there.
There we go and now I’m going to add halfa teaspoon of sesame seed oil, that was a
little bit too little I’m going to add alittle bit more.
There we go – great.
And I’m going to add half a teaspoon ofGochujang Chile Paste, which is a fermented
chili paste from Korea.
And after that I’m just going to sprinklea little bit of cayenne pepper in there, do
this to taste, however spicy you want it youadd more.
I’m going to whisk this together and you’regoing to want to start cooking this.
It’s going to need about a half hour tostart to develop the flavors.
In the meantime I’m going to take cornstarch,place it into a bowl and add an equal amount
of water and you just want to mix it in.
The reason for mixing it here is because ifyou add cornstarch to hot water it will clump
up and it will make a mess and you’ll neverbe able to get the clumps out.
But this way you create a slurry which easilyassimilates into the liquid.
The point of this is going to thicken yoursauce, so you want to take one tablespoon
at a time and just mix it at the end of cooking.
You’re going to need about three to fourtablespoons.
So just keep adding it until you get the rightconsistency of a thick sauce.
To check if you have the right consistencyyou’re just going to want to take a spoon
and dip it in and then on the back you justrun your finger across and if the line stays
then it’s the right sauce consistency.
Now you’re going to want to leave this onthe side to cool down and use it later.
Now to prepare your chicken wings, just takeyour chicken wings and cut them up through
the joints here and here.
You can easily just cut through the cartilagejust swiping through in one single motion
if you know where it is.
Now if you don’t know where to cut justtake a chicken wing and where the corner is
here just make a small slice and then justput out the wing like this and then in between
the two bones you just cut.
This is especially good if you have a bluntknife it’s the better method for that.
Again just do a small slice here and pop outthe joints and then just cut in between.
Now the method I showed before is way quickerand way more efficient so try and learn that
one.
Now you’re going to end up with three piecesof chicken.
Here this little winglet you’re not reallygoing to need this, you can make some chicken
stock out of this.
Just throw it in the oven with some vegetables,grill it and then add some water and a delicious
stock.
This is what you’re going to need righthere, these two beautiful little pieces of
chicken are going to make your delicious chickenwings.
Alright moving on to the batter, you take150-grams of tempura batter mix and just throw
it in.
I’ll add a link in the description belowfor this.
And you add 60-grams of cornstarch, this isgoing to make it very, very crispy.
And you add 8-grams of salt, followed by anoptional 10-grams of Shichimi, which is a
Japanese spice mix, and just mix this alltogether.
Now you’re going to need 240-grams of waterthat’s about 240-milliliters.
You just mix it in like that until you geta sort of cementy sticky consistency just
like this.
It’s a very, very sticky battery.
Okay great, that’s perfect.
Okay now you drop your chicken wings intoyour batter mix and just turn them around
until they’re fully covered in the battermix, just make sure they’re submerged in
that batter mix, just like this.
And once that’s done just pull them outonto a plate so that the batter can just slightly
run off.
You don’t want an excessive amount of batteron them, just enough to cover them lightly.
Okay so once you’ve transferred them tothe plate then you’re going to want to transfer
them into your deep fryer.
So you take them and slowly put them in sothey slightly cook and then drop them.
You’re going to want to put them in a deepfryer at 190-degrees Celsius, and don’t
overcrowd the deep fryer.
Put six or seven pieces in there and afterone minute you pull it out.
At this point you just want to make sure they’renot stuck to the bottom, so you just loosen
them up and you’re going to want to leaveit to rest for one minute and in this time
it’s still going to continue to cook becausethe chicken pieces are very hot so they’ll
cook a little bit more lightly than they wouldin the deep fryer, and this is key.
After it’s rested for one minute you dropthem back into the deep fryer for another
two minutes of cooking, and in that time thedeep fryer has had time to reheat so it’s
going to be very, very crispy and hot fried.
Once it’s done cooking you just take itand place them onto your paper towel just
so the oil can run off, and you just let themrest for a little bit to cool down.
Once they are cool enough take a Ziploc bag,just like this and transfer your wings into
there like so.
There we go, and once they’re in there you’regoing to want to add a couple spoons of that
delicious soy garlic sauce you made at thestart, just two or three spoons will be enough.
You don’t have to overdo it.
Once you’ve got that in there just pullup your bag and then just massage the sauce
around until it covers all those chicken wingsin a delicious coating of that sauce.
Once that’s done you just take a plate andVoilá, there you go Korean Style Chicken
Wings, and these are finger licking good.
I mean awesome!
Enjoy!
Alright so there we go, now you know how tomake the most delicious BonChon Korean style
chicken wings.
I hope you give this a try at home and shareit with your friends.
I don’t mean share it like Facebook share,I mean like cook the stuff and give it to
them because they’ll love you for life afterthat.
Alright, thank you for watching.
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and see you in the next video.
Goodbye!
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Bon Chon Chicken Recipe / Korean fried chicken restaurant that inspired the recipe: https://bonchon.com/ See the full recipe on my website here: http://www.makesushi.com/korean-chicken-wings-recipe/ In this video, you will see my take on how to make bonchon chicken at home, hope you enjoy this recipe. Ingredients: sauce: - 70g brown sugar - 125g soysauce http://amzn.to/2f9tblE - 80g mirin (Japanese cooking wine) - 2 garlic cloves (about 7g) - 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger (about 4g) - 35g rice vinegar http://amzn.to/2uZJlSx - 1/2 teaspoon gochujang chilli paste http://amzn.to/2w7yhTd - 50g water - 1/2 teaspoon sesame seed oil http://amzn.to/2f8tXPS Batter: - 150g tempura batter http://amzn.to/2uZVk2q - 60g corn starch http://amzn.to/2u4MoeR - 10g shichimi 7 spice mix http://amzn.to/2uZAW1a - 8g salt - 240g water ----------------------------------------------- All Recipe Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MakeSushi1/videos This YouTube Food channel is all about making sushi recipes and trying to teach great food recipes. What to support this channel? you can do the following: 1) Share this video on Facebook, Google + or Twitter 2) Add my channel to your featured channel box "makesushi1" 3) Embed this video on a blog *Thank you for your support* *SOCIAL MEDIA :* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MakeSushi1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/makesushi1 Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MakesushiOrg/posts InstaGram: @MakeSushi1 or use the hashtag #makesushi1 Make Sushi App: http://mksu.co/2fKmn9C Music Royalty Free Music: Music from audionetwork.com (paid for license) cameras used to film this: 2x Canon 5D m4: http://amzn.to/2kZfoM5 sometimes a GoPro Hero5: http://amzn.to/2iKpW53 Produced by http://www.makesushi.com Chef: Davy Devaux link to this video for sharing: https://youtu.be/i3wYYT5kpPA last week's video: https://youtu.be/sGlNhTjPBVU I use affiliate links to share products I like, find useful and feel that readers will find helpful. These links can help me generate income to support the costs associated with making video tutorials. -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Dragon Sushi Roll Recipe - Japanese Food (delicious)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1THvfX5LTM -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-