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You are here: Home / All Recipes / Chicken Nanban with Tartar Sauce

Chicken Nanban With Tartar Sauce

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Japanese fried chicken fillets marinated in sweet-sour sauce and served with tartar sauce made with crushed hard-boiled eggs.
Unlike most fried chicken recipes that start with marinating, chicken nanban fillets are marinated after frying. Strange? Maybe, but the result is delicious.
Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 12 mins
Marinating time 6 mins
Total Time 33 mins
Course Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 3 people
How to Cook Chicken Nanban
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Ingredients
  

For the tartar sauce

  • 2 hard-boiled eggs
  • 2 tablespoons pickle relish drained
  • 2 tablespoons chopped onion squeezed
  • ¼ cup Japanese mayonnaise
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons lime lemon or lime juice, or to taste

For the marinade

  • 2 tablespoons mirin
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce (I used Kikkoman)
  • salt to taste

To complete the dish

  • 1 whole chicken breast deboned (or two chicken breast fillets) and cut into bite-size pieces
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons corn starch
  • 1 ½ cooking oil
  • toasted sesame seeds to garnish
  • thinly sliced scallions to garnish

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Instructions
 

Make the tartar sauce

  • Shell the eggs and crush using the back of a fork.
  • Mix the eggs with the rest of the ingredients for the tartar sauce.
  • Set aside.

Cook the marinade

  • Boil together the ingredients for the marinade until the sugar dissolves. Pour into a shallow bowl and cool.

Cook the chicken

  • Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper. Toss with the corn starch.
    Frying Chicken Nanban
  • Heat the cooking oil and fry the chicken, in batches, until golden brown and cooked through, about two to three minutes per side depending on the thickness.

Marinate the chicken

  • Place the cooked chicken in the marinade in a single layer. Allow to soak for three minutes per side.
    Marinating Chicken Nanban

Assemble the chicken nanban

  • Arrange the chicken pieces on a plate (leave the excess marinade behind) and spoon the tartar sauce beside them.
    Chicken Nanban Recipe
  • Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and scallions before serving.

Notes

This is an updated version of a recipe originally published in my other blog in September 23, 2013.
Keyword Fried Chicken
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