Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori (Hen Isobe-age)

The flavour of my Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori is much like Karaage Hen, however a strip of nori (roasted seaweed) is wrapped round every bit of rooster. It has a touch of flavour from the ocean.

I talked about two sorts of Isobe-age dishes in my publish Chikuwa Fishcake Tempura (Chikuwa Isobe-age).

One kind of Isobe-age is a deep-fried ingredient coated in batter with aonori (dried seaweed flakes) blended in. One other kind of Isobe-age is made by wrapping a bit of meat in a strip of yaki nori (roasted seaweed). Chikuwa Isobe-age is the previous and at present’s recipe, Hen Isobe-age, is the latter.

Wrapping every bit of rooster with yaki nori provides an additional step to creating of ordinary fried rooster, however such a small quantity of nori adjustments the flavour of the fried rooster. It’s so tasty.

Hen tenderloin is taken into account to be the healthiest a part of the rooster meat with the bottom fats content material, nevertheless it tends to turn out to be very dry when cooked. In at present’s recipe, I attempted to cook dinner juicy rooster tenderloin. Listed below are the secrets and techniques.

Secret to Cooking Juicy Hen Tenderloin

There are a few issues to forestall your Fried Hen Tenders from getting too dry.

Add mayonnaise to the marinade:

Mayonnaise is especially manufactured from egg, vinegar, and oil. Oil and vinegar are onerous to combine and separate simply. The emulsification course of produces mayonnaise with a easy and creamy texture.

This emulsification of mayonnaise and the oil in it makes the rooster tender and juicy.

Fry the rooster at low temperature:

That is the approach I used to make Karaage Hen. Prepare dinner at about 160-165°C/320-329°F first, then on the finish, fry at 190-200°C/374-392°F to crisp up the floor of the rooster.

Meat turns into dry when cooked at excessive temperature. Cooking your rooster at low temperature first retains the moisture inside the flesh higher. That’s how a sluggish cooker makes the meat juicy and tender.

What’s in my Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori (Hen Isobe-age)

• Hen tenderloin, diagonally sliced into 3-4 batons
• Strips of yaki nori (roasted seaweed sheet)
• Corn flour/cornstarch
• Oil to fry

Marinade

• Cooking sake
• Mayonnaise
• Soy sauce
• Ginger juice (juice from grated ginger)

Relying on the scale of your rooster tenderloin, the variety of batons you get is perhaps completely different. You have to the identical variety of nori strips as rooster items.

I had 12 rooster items, so I reduce 1 sheet of yaki nori into 12 strips. Halve the sheet, then halve it perpendicular to the primary reduce, making 4 sheets. Lower the pile into 3 strips of equal width.

My yaki nori was so crispy that I didn’t have to make use of scissors or a knife to make strips. I merely folded it to chop.However should you like, you possibly can pile 4 sheets collectively and reduce the pile with scissors.

Easy methods to Make Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori (Hen Isobe-age)

Though it was deep-fried, the depth of oil was solely 1-1.5cm/⅜-⅝”. So long as half of the rooster items submerge within the oil, that’s enough. See the video.

1. Put the rooster items and all of the Marinade substances in a bowl or a zipper lock bag and blend effectively. Depart for quarter-hour.
2. Wrap a yaki nori strip round every rooster piece within the center.
3. Coat the rooster items with corn flour.
4. Warmth oil in a pan at 160°C/320°F and fry the rooster for a couple of minutes, then switch the rooster to a tray.
5. Convey the oil to 190°C/374°F and fry the rooster items for less than about 30 seconds to brown the floor of the rooster. Switch the rooster items to the tray.

You don’t have to make use of mayonnaise to make rooster isobe-age. The flavour remains to be nice. However once I in contrast the identical dish made with and with out mayonnaise, the tenderness of the rooster was notably completely different. Except you may have meals restrictions, I do suggest including mayonnaise to marinate your rooster.

Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori is an ideal nibble for drinks too. Additionally it is a terrific dish for a bento field. They’re nonetheless very tasty even when served chilly.

Yumiko

Watch How To Make It

Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori (Hen Isobe-age)

The flavour of my Fried Hen Tenders Wrapped in Nori is much like Karaage Hen, however a strip of yakinori (roasted seaweed) is wrapped round every bit of rooster. It has a touch of flavour from the ocean. See the video.

Do not forget to see the part ‘MEAL IDEAS’ beneath the recipe card! It provides you an inventory of dishes that I’ve already posted and this recipe that may make up a whole meal. I hope it’s of assist to you.

Recipe Kind:

Appetiser, Fundamental

Delicacies:

Japanese

Key phrase:

rooster recipe, rooster tenderloin recipe, fried rooster

Serves: 2

Creator: Yumiko

Components (tbsp=15ml, cup=250ml)

• 300g/0.7lb
  rooster tenderloin
  (tendon eliminated, observe 1)
• 12+/-
  strips
  yaki nori
  (observe 2)
• 2-2½
  tbsp
  corn flour/cornstarch
• Oil to shallow fry

Marinade

• 1
  tbsp
  cooking sake
• 1
  tbsp
  soy sauce
• 1
  tbsp
  mayonnaise
  (observe 3)
• 1/4
  tsp
  ginger juice
  (squeeze juice out of grated ginger)

Directions

1. Diagonally slice every rooster tenderloin into 3 strips (observe 4), then put them right into a bowl.

2. Add all of the Marinade substances to the bowl and blend effectively making certain that the marinade coats every rooster piece. Marinate for quarter-hour.

3. Taking one piece of marinated rooster at a time, wrap a strip of yaki nori round the center of piece of rooster.

4. Coat every bit of rooster with corn flour/cornstarch. Rolling the rooster piece on the corn flour/cornstarch makes it straightforward.

5. Fill a frying pan with oil to 1-1.5cm/⅜-⅝” deep (observe 5) and warmth to 160°C/320°F (observe 6).

6. Put the rooster items within the oil and cook dinner for about 1.5 minutes. Flip them over and cook dinner for 1-1.5 minutes. (observe 7)

7. Switch the rooster items to a tray with a rack or a tray lined with kitchen paper.

8. Convey the temperature of the oil as much as 190°C/374°F (observe 6).

9. Return the rooster items to the oil and cook dinner for about 30-40 seconds. Flip the rooster items over after 15-20 seconds (observe 8). The rooster must be golden brown. (observe 7)

10. Switch the rooster to the tray. Serve whereas scorching.

Recipe Notes

1. Please see my publish Marinated Hen Tenderloin, which explains how one can take away the tendon out of rooster tenderloin. I used 4 rooster tenderloins that weighed 305g/0.7lb.

2. You have to the identical variety of yakinori strips because the variety of rooster items. I reduce every tenderloin into 3, making 12 rooster items in complete. So, I made 12 yakinori strips from 1 sheet of yaki nori.

Please see the photograph within the publish, which reveals how I reduce a sheet into 12 skinny strips.

3. I used kewpie mayonnaise because it has much less acidity in comparison with Western-style mayonnaise. Mayonnaise prevents the rooster from getting dry when cooked, leading to tender and tender flesh. You possibly can omit mayonnaise should you want.

4. In case your rooster tenderloin is giant, chances are you’ll want to chop it into 4 items. My rooster strips had been about 2.5cm/1″ huge and the size was wherever between 7cm/2¾” and 10cm/4″. They don’t need to be the identical measurement, however they appear higher if the scale of the rooster items are related.

5. You solely have to submerge the rooster items midway. In case your rooster items are skinny, chances are you’ll want solely 1cm/⅜” deep of oil. If they’re thicker, 1.5cm deep of oil will probably be higher.

6. I used a thermometer as effectively, however you possibly can test the approximate temperature by placing a thick bamboo stick upright within the oil, as demonstrated within the video. If tiny bubbles across the bamboo stick are developing gently, it’s about 160°C/320°F. If many bubbles across the bamboo stick are developing quickly, the oil is about 190°C/374°F.

7. In case your frying pan is small, you are able to do this in two batches.

8. If you’re placing the rooster items within the oil one after the other, by the point you set the final rooster piece within the oil, you have to to show the primary rooster piece over.

9. Vitamin per serving. It assumes that the vegetable oil absorbed into the fried rooster is about 8% of the burden of the rooster.

serving: 195g energy: 374kcal fats: 21g (27%) saturated fats: 2.5g (13%) trans fats: 0.1g polyunsaturated fats: 5.9g monounsaturated fats: 11g ldl cholesterol: 112mg (37%) sodium: 552mg (24%) carbohydrates: 6.6g (2%) dietary fibre: 0.6g (2%) sugar: 0.1g protein: 35g vitamin D: 0mcg (0%) calcium: 13mg (1%) iron: 0.9mg (5%) potassium: 571mg (12%)