Crispy Chicken Burger
Ingredients
- 400 g Chicken breast
- 4 Soft buns
- Gochu-Mayo sauce
- 2 Gherkins – sliced
- 8 Holland lettuce leaves
- 2½ Cups Sunflower oil
Marinade
- 1 cup Buttermilk - 1 cup of milk & 1 tbsp white vinegar.
- 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
- 1 Egg
- ½ tsp Paprika powder
- ¼ tsp Celery salt
Batter
- 1 tsp Dried Thyme
- 1 tsp Paprika powder
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp Ginger powder
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- ¼ cup Corn starch flour – more than that and the batter will be stiff!
Instructions
- Prepare the buttermilk: Prepare a small bowl to mix milk and white vinegar. Stir to combine and let the mixture rest for five to ten minutes for the milk to curdle.
- Prepare the marinade: In a large mixing bowl, combine the buttermilk, one egg, Dijon mustard, paprika, and celery salt. Whisk the egg and continue to stir until all the ingredients are well mixed. Thereafter, add the chicken breast to the bowl of marinade. Cover the bowl with cling wrap and let it rest in the fridge for thirty minutes.
- Prepare the batter mixture: Prepare a wide plate, and then add all-purpose flour, corn starch flour, dried thyme, paprika, garlic powder, and ginger powder. Toss to mix the ingredients.
- Coat the chicken with batter: Arrange the ingredients in the following order – marinated chicken, batter mixture, and the preheated vegetable oil at 190ºC / 374ºF in a frying pot or a deep fryer. Lift and hold one marinated chicken breast in the air for two to three seconds for the marinade liquid to drip, and then place it on the batter mixture. Push in the batter in all the grooves and flip the chicken, thoroughly coating it.
- Deep fry the chicken: Slowly drop the batter-coated chicken into the preheated oil and fry for three minutes. Then remove from the oil and rest for thirty to sixty seconds on a strainer. Then, fry it again for two minutes and let it drain on a strainer.
- Assemble the chicken burger: Toast the insides of the buns with butter. Next, layer the buns with chicken, lettuce, gherkins, and the gochu-mayo, then top with the other bun. Enjoy the delicious and crispy chicken burger with fries and drinks.