Crispy Garlic Chicken... wings. After a long time of trying to figure out Cantonese crispy skin chicken sans oven, we just could never quite figure out the whole bird. A hacked together wing version, though, turned out delicious enough.
0:00 - Intro: the unobtainable chicken
1:07 - Marinate and Poach
2:10 - Coat with Crispy Skin Liquid
3:20 - Dry, with fan or fridge
4:13 - 3 Methods to Cook
4:30 - 1, Oil Ladling
5:06 - 2, Shallow Fry
5:48 - 3, Oil & Bake
6:17 - Intro to Garlic Sand (风沙)
6:46 - How to Make Deep Fried Garlic
7:42 - Make the Garlic Sand
8:18 - How Crispy is Crispy?
INGREDIENTS
20-30 chicken wings (鸡中翅) - flats are preferable here.
For the marinade:
* Peeled garlic, 500g -or- three heads of garlic, peeled.
* Soy sauce (生抽), 100g
* Fish sauce (鱼露), 100g
* Salt, 45g
* Chicken Bouillon Powder (鸡粉), 15g
* Garlic powder, optional, 1 tsp
* Water, 1 liter
Note: if you’re looking to cut down on garlic quantity, you can go all the way down to 2 heads of garlic if you up the garlic powder quantity