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Recipe: Chicken covered in sesame seeds. A healthy alternative for kara-age (fried chicken). All you do is pop it in the oven for 18 minutes. How easy is that? NO OIL recipe.

1/20/2013

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Number of steps:  5 steps
Time taken: 30 min to marinate the chicken (if you choose to)
                      5 min to prepare
                      15 - 20 min in the oven
Approx. 200 kcal per serving

About This Dish:
As you probably know by now, I love fried food. Especially fried chicken! However, now that I'm trying to eat healthy and cut out empty calories from oil and such, "fake" fried food are my best friends. Check out the Fake Katsu Recipe. Doesn't it just feel great knowing that what you made tastes as good as fried food, but is much MUCH healthier? This recipe, like the Fake Katsu Recipe uses absolutely no oil. Additionally, I've used very lean chicken. The crunchiness of the sesame seeds and the marinate prior gave this chicken a fantastic taste which reminded me of a dish back in Japan; Kara-age (Fried chicken with coating)! 

What You Need:
(For 4 servings)
  • 1lb chicken (I used boneless, skinless chicken breast from Costco. Any chicken meat will work though!)
Marinate:
  • 2 tbsp Japanese soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp Japanese sake
  • 1 - 2 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 - 2 tsp grated garlic
Coating:
  • 1 large egg
  • 5 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp potato starch (If you don't have starch, you can use 2 tbsp flour too)
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1. Cut up the chicken into bite sized pieces.





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4. Place the chicken into the coating and mix till thoroughly spread.

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2. In a ziploc bag, put in the chicken, soy sauce, sake, grated ginger and grated garlic. Marinate for 30 minutes in the fridge. If you don't care much for the taste, you can skip the marinating.

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5. Place the chicken onto a piece of foil on a oven safe pan. I always like using foil to make the clean up easier :) Place in the oven for 15-20 minutes. 

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3. Make the coating of the chicken. Simply mix the sesame seeds, egg and starch. Preheat the oven to 400F-440F.



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Serve with rice, miso soup, veggies on the side! You can dip it into Japanese mayo, ketchup or any favourite sauce of yours.

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1 Comment
Kaj & Tash
2/4/2013 11:40:17 am

The sesame seed coating is even better than frying the chicken.
Gonna use this method in the future again!

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