Yield: 2-3 Servings
Short Korean Lesson
- ChinGu (친구) = Friend
- ChinGuDeul (친구들) = Friends
Video Instructions
Main Ingredients
- 2 lb Chicken (About ½ Chicken)
- ⅛ Cup Milk
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ⅛ tsp Black Pepper
- 1 Pinch Ginger Powder (Optional)
Batter Ingredients
- ¼ Cup Potato Starch or Cornstarch
- ¼ Cup Frying Mix or Flour
- ½ Tbsp Korean Curry Powder
- 2 Pinches Salt
- 2 Pinches Black Pepper
Sauce Ingredients
- ¼ Cup Ketchup
- 3 Tbsp Red Pepper Paste
- 2 Tbsp Corn Syrup
- 1 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Minced Onion
- ½ Tbsp Soy Sauce
- ½ Tbsp Minced Garlic
- ½ Tbsp Cooking Oil
- 1 Tbsp Sesame Seeds
Directions
Combine 2 pounds of chicken, ⅛ cup of milk, ¼ tsp of salt, ⅛ tsp of black pepper, and 1 pinch of ginger powder (optional) in a bowl. Marinate it for about 10 minutes. This step (especially the milk) helps to reduce some of the bad chicken flavor.
If you don’t want to use milk to get rid of bad chicken flavor, here is another way to marinate the chicken; mix the chicken with 1 tsp of minced garlic, ¼ tsp of salt, ⅛ tsp of black pepper, and 1 pinch of ginger powder (optional). Add 2 Tbsp of water or cooking wine for some moisture.
To coat the chicken, mix the following in a big plastic bag: ¼ cup of potato starch or cornstarch, ¼ cup frying mix, ½ Tbsp of Korean curry powder, 2 pinches of salt, and 2 pinches of black pepper. Shake the bag to mix everything together.
Add all of the marinated chicken to the flour mix and shake the bag: so the chicken will be evenly covered with the powder.
Take out the chicken from the bag and set the pieces aside while the oil is heating. You will have some leftover flour mixture in the bag; save it for later. In this step, pour the cooking oil in a deep frying pan and heat it on high.
By the time, the oil becomes hot, the flour coating of the chicken will become soggy.
Coat each piece of chicken again with the remaining flour mixture right before frying them.
Drop a little piece of the flour mixture to the heated oil, if it floats immediately, the oil is hot enough to fry the chicken. Carefully put the chicken into the oil.
Fry the chicken on high for several minutes (8 to 10 minutes) until the pieces become light brown. We will fry them twice, so you don’t have to fry them too long in this step. Take out the chicken, drain the oil, and set the pieces on a kitchen towel.
For the second frying, fry the chicken in hot oil again for several minutes (5 minutes) until they become golden brown. This time, make sure that the chicken is completely cooked. You can take out one piece and cut it in half with a knife to check if it is cooked.
Meanwhile, add all of the sauce ingredients together in a pan, except for the sesame seeds: ¼ cup ketchup, 3 Tbsp red pepper paste, 2 Tbsp corn syrup, 1 Tbsp sugar, 1 Tbsp minced onion, ½ Tbsp soy sauce, ½ Tbsp minced garlic, and ½ Tbsp cooking oil. Cook it on medium. You can use sugar instead of the corn syrup, and you can reduce the amount of red pepper paste if you do not like spicy food.
Once the sauce starts to bubble, cook it for one more minute. The sauce amount is enough for only half of the chicken, so mix in half of the fried chicken into the sauce. Turn off the heat and cover the chicken with the sauce. If you want to season all of the chicken, double the sauce recipe.
Lastly, sprinkle 1 Tbsp of sesame seeds on top and mix.
The chicken is both delicious to eat plain or seasoned. Serve it with pickled radish and/or sweet corn salad as I did. Enjoy! 🙂 If you want to skip cooking the chicken, just buy some KFC popcorn chicken or strips and dip them in my sauce. It will still be delicious. 🙂
Wonderful,aeri!
i’ve wondered how to make korean fried chicken since i saw your sweet corn salad.and i get it now 😉
Can’t wait to try this!
Maybe i will go to the market near my house and… 🙂
hi katoo,
and…
Enjoy KFC chicken…
hehe somebody told me.. Korean Fried Chicken is KFC.. lol Thanks 🙂
Hello aeri!
thanks for posting this recipe. what is korean curry powder? is this the same with other curry powders?
hi Dianne,
It is Korean style curry powder that Koreans use for curry and rice. It taste much different from Indian or other curry powder. it looks like this..
http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=319912
thanks
We’ve been waiting for this recipe.
My daughter had this at a Korean restaurant before.
We will definitely try this. Hope it will turn out like yours.
hi Bennyrondo,
I will be happy to hear how you and your daughters like this. Thanks 🙂 Have a great Lord’s day. 🙂
hi aeri!!! i can eat this everyday. really! i can 🙂
i miss you so much! btw, i received my siempo sauce!!! i’ll be making a video for you soon. PROMISE!!
i love you 😀 hugs and kisses to bryson 😉
hi farleen,
hehe.. Thanks. I love to see your video..but I know you are busy with many things.. so take your time. 🙂 I love you too. 😛
This chicken recipe is delicious!!! Thank you for uploading it. BTW aeri will you be posting your korean lessons soon? I really love your lessons.
hi LoveXiah,
Thanks for your message. I made a powerpoint for the next lesson. I have to finish recording voice and editing the powerpoint. I’m so sorry to make you wait for the lesson. 😥 Soo, I will try to finish it.. thanks
Thank you for working so hard for all of us. Don’t be sorry, it is worth the wait.
Hi Aeri,
that was the first recipe of yours what I’ve tried but not the last one! OMG! I love this sauce! And it’s not difficult at all (meaning, this is the best for me :P)! I gonna cook it for my friends too, they also like Korean foods and I’m sure they will cry by the happiness! Hehe^^
Thank you so much! And I wish you all the bests from Hungary, Europe. (:
hi Dee-Dee,
Nice to meet you !!! 🙂
Hehe..thanks for your comment.
That’s so sweet you cook something for your friends.. I hope they enjoy korean food. 🙂
Hey Aeri,
U actually don’t know me.
I recently found ur kimchees sofe tofu soup video from youtube and i made it for my husband last week. He loves it so much.
Just want to let u know that i love to see ur video and i’ve learned so much from it.
I’m so glad that there is a korean market around my living area in Hawaii and i can buy all of the ingredients to cook because we both love korean foods so much.
If there is any korean recipe questions in the future i wish u wouldn’t mind me to ask u for advises.
Mahalo and Aloha! 😛
Hi Carol,
Nice to meet you. ~~~ 🙂 Thanks for your comment. Yes, I don’t know you, but I want to know about you more in the future..hehe Please visit more often. 🙂 I love to go back to Hawaii again someday. (We went there for our Honeymoon in 2007.. beautiful place to live..)
Hello!!!
I was wondering if you can post a recipe of jajangmyun and HaeMul Jeon. I don’t know if I spelled it rigt.
Can’t wait to try this at home.
Thank you.
hi Tao Hana,
I already posted jajangmyun..
here is a link for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLumf3Rrgjw
and I will add the other request in my list.. thanks 🙂
Thank You. Is tteukbboki same as robbokki?
hi Tao Hana,
They are similar.. just difference is.. rabookki has extra ramen noodles in it..but ttoekbokki doesnt.. ^^
So wonderful.. I’m one of your fun..I cooked Korean food for my husband from your lesson..감사함니다..
This recipe look fantastic! I love Korean fried chicken, so I will definitely try making this dish at home soon!
I tried your sauce! Its so Yummy and simple to make! Thank you for sharing!
I just made this dish. It tastes great. I just wish I had some pickled radish to accompany it then it would be perfect!
Since I did not have any milk at hand, I omitted it. I did not realize that milk could be used to remove bad smell from meat. Should think the milk helps to soften the meat and makes it smoother and more fragrant too. Once I tried using plain yoghurt to tenderize lamb. Might consider experimenting it with this dish one day.
안녕하세요, 에리씨(sp?),
I just discovered your wonderful site, and look forward to trying all of your recipes. I spent the last year and a half studying in Seoul and I miss the food so much! Thanks to you, I can now enjoy some of my favourites at home. 조리법은 맛있게 본다; 감사함니다! ^^
awesome awesome stuff.. love your recipe and thanks for posting 😛
Hi, i am pleased to have your recipes, i would like to know what type of oil is best to use for the chicken? I am certain olive oil is not the one to use. Many thanks Oscar
hi Oscar,
I used canola oil.. you can use other cooking oil like vegetable oil or corn oil.. ^^ thanks
Hello! My name is liarra.
This chicken looks very tasty. Is this same as bonchonchicken본촌치킨?
Last week, I ate bonchonchicken at Singapore.
by the way, today I made tokpogi of your recipe. It was so tasty thanks!
hi liarra,
Nice to meet you. About your question, if the chicken was red sauce one instead of soy sauce one.. yes this is same as what you tried. Thanks.
Just made this to enter into your contest. It came out great thanks 😀 😛 😉
hi aerhi, how about to apply batter the chicken is it ok?
hi phil,
What do you mean? You mean .. make batter and dip the chicken pieces into the batter and fry ?? if that’s what you mean.. you can do that. 🙂
I love this Aries, KFC is nothing compared to this!
Hello Aeri!!
I’m going to try and make some Korean food (thanks to u). I was wondering, if I use an other type of curry would it taste more or less the same? 😕 I’m from Puerto Rico and it’s hard for me to find some of this ingredients… the paste, for example… can I use something else? I’m so sad, I wanted to tasted just like yours 🙁
A new fan here^^. We have this new thing in my family where once a month we will cook other countries foods. We already did the mexican dinner
Well Thanks for everything^^… btw I speak spanish so excuse my english for any gramatical errors or anything 😳
hi Jenelle,
Well, I don’t know what kind of curry powder you have..so I can’t answer with confidence..but.. if you like your curry powder taste, add some (maybe 1 tsp to be safe) instead of korean curry powder. I think your English is better than mine.. so no worries. hehe I’m happy to meet you. 🙂 thanks
Hi Aeri,
I’ve tried this receipe and it whas absolutly fabulous !
Thank you so much for your wondefuls receipes !
A French Fan !!!!
Hi aeri~ ^_^
I saw ur site accidentally while I was searching how to cook spicy chicken (Korean spicy chicken) because I just got married to a Korean guy last year and I am slowly learning how to cook for him so that my parents in law would be proud~kkk at first I find ur site a very useful for all the foreign wife’s out there (married to a Korean guy ^^,) anyway thanks to you I have confidence to myself to show to my husband that I can be a great wife!!! ^______^ have a good day ~~~
hi Marj,
Nice to meet you. Congratulations on your wedding. 🙂 I hope you will live happily with your husband for a long time. Come back please.. hehe.. 🙂
Hi Aeri,
This looks so delicious. I can’t wait to try it! Do you use skinless chicken or do you keep the skin on?
Thanks!
hi momof2,
I used the chicken with skin on for this recipe..but you can use skinless chicken also.. thanks
Hi Aeri!
Can I use red chilli paste if I dont have pepper paste?
And what can I substitute korean curry powder since I dont have it?
Can I just cook the chicken once, instead of twice?
hi Arshia Amin,
Sorry I don’t know how the red chilli paste you have taste like… You can try though.. you can add some pepper powder.. garlic powder and onion powder instead of curry powder…. you can cook the chicken once..just make sure that your chicken is completely cooked.. thanks
Hi, do you know what they call the Korean Curry here in Korea? While I am still here in Country I would like to buy some. I have the chili paste and the ground chili powder but I don’t think I have seen the Korean curry.
hi Sherry,
just buy 오뚜기 brand curry.. or curry powder in the store in Korea.. ^^ you will not have problem to find it in Korea..
here is a link for you..(the picture…)
http://imagesearch.naver.com/search.naver?sm=ext&viewloc=1&where=idetail&rev=15&query=%EC%98%A4%EB%9A%9C%EA%B8%B0%20%EC%B9%B4%EB%A0%88§ion=image&sort=0&res_fr=0&res_to=0&start=1&ie=utf8&img_id=cafe13034218%7C241%7C27421_5&face=0&color=0&ccl=0&viewtype=0&aq=0&spq=1&nx_search_query=%EC%98%A4%EB%9A%9C%EA%B8%B0%20%EC%B9%B4%EB%A0%88&nx_and_query=&nx_sub_query=&nx_search_hlquery=&nx_search_fasquery=
Hi Aeri! 🙂 i’m new here and i find your website very informative 🙂 can you please post a recipe of the soy-garlic sauce for KFC. My boyfriend who’s korean is feeling a bit homesick so i’m planning to cheer him with KFC. thanks in advance and God bless 🙂
hi Cielo,
It’s sweet that you are going to make something for your husband. I will add it to my list..but sorry that I can’t make it soon.. hopefully his homesick feeling will go away soon.. thanks
Hi Aeri,
Do you post printable recipes? 💡
Thank you,
레이라니 😳
hi Lei,
Sorry I don’t have printable recipes..but soon we will publish cookbook. thanks
hi aeri 🙂
i live all ur recipes and im making this recipe today,,,but i have a question…can i skip the korean curry? because i dont have it..is there anything else that i can use insted? thank u so much 😀
hi sarah,
Korean curry powder gives good flavor to it..but if you don’t have.. you have to skip it.. instead you can add a little more black pepper and..use some minced garlic to marinate the chicken.. thanks
I LOVE YOUR SITE! Not only are your instructions thorough but helpful! Thank you for choosing to tackle this recipe! I love this dish 😀
hi aeri … \(^^)/ glad to find your website to learn about the korean food 😀 instead of korean curry powder, can i use malay curry powder??? would it taste be similar?? thanks for the info 😉
hi Lylia,
Sorry, I don’t know how the malay curry tastes like.. but I think it will be worth to try it and find out. 😉 Please let me know how you liked it if you try that someday. Thanks
I really love this blog. Thank you for sharing with all of us food enthusiast.
Can you keep the batter after you use it? How can you keep it?
Thanks
Hi Ferry,
Unless I use it right away again, I will throw away the leftover batter.. if you are going to use it again soon..yes you can keep it in the refrigerator.
hi aeri ~
i have a question to ask you… my mulyeot expire last year … i still having it .. but im not sure whether it still can be use a not .. it looks fine to me .. and i just used it once …. do u think i still can use it?
hi annabelle,
Yes, if it looks..tastes..and smells okay.. you can still use it..but to be safe, try to use it quickly. 🙂
Hello,
I don’t have Corn Syrup, and in the shops they don’t sell it, can i use something else ?
thanks
Hello, maybe i can help you :).
In the recipe she said ‘you can use sugar instead of corn syrup’ 🙂
Mm, i think you can use a liquid sugar?
hi sally huang,
That sounds like an idea. 🙂 Thanks for your help. ^^
hi Isabel,
You can use sugar instead. thanks 🙂
Hi aeri, can i use ottogi curry mild (the curry is on sachet. And i think its a instant curry for curry rice) for the chicken? This is what i can found in our market. 🙁 hope to hear from you soon. 🙂 thank you before
hi sally huang,
Well.. the curry will be in liquid type.. which can make your chicken soggy.. You can use .. little bit of.. onion power.. garlic powder..and black pepper instead of curry powder for your chicken.. thanks