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- **Posted:** 2025-05-02T20:18:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Gideon General (@gidsgids) — https://gondola.cc/gidsgids

## Caption

Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken

Ingredients:

2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
Vegetable oil or canola oil for deep frying
Fresh basil for garnish
Sweet potato starch for coating

Marinade:
Egg whites from 2 eggs
2 Tbsp fresh Ginger - grated
4 Cloves Garlic - grated
1 tsp white pepper
4 tsp soy sauce
4 tsp xiaoxing wine or (Dry sherry wine/ Sake/ Mirin)
2 tsp chicken powder or consommé powder

Seasoning:
2 tsp White pepper
1.5 tsp Chinese 5 spice
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp Kosher salt or to taste

Instructions:
1. Cut the chicken thighs into bite sized pieces. A large chicken thigh should yield 7-9 bite sized pieces. 
2. Make the marinade by mixing the ingredients listed above.
3. Marinate the chicken for at least 2 hours but preferably overnight.
4. Once the chicken is done marinating, pre-heat your oil to 375 F.
5. Coat the marinated chicken in the sweet potato starch. Squeeze the chicken tight so that the starch doesn’t fall off while frying.
6. I pre-heated the oil to 375 F at the start because once you add the first batch, the temperature will drop to 350 F and that the temperature we want to fry the chicken in and maintain it that way. Fry for 3-4 minutes until the internal temperature is 165 F.
7. After frying, season the chicken with the seasoning mix listed above.
8. Once the chicken is done frying, lower the oil temp to 320 F and fry the fresh basil for 10 seconds. 
9. Toss the chicken and the basil in the seasoning mix and serve while hot.
10. Enjoy!

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