Beer Batter Fried Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 59 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 19 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 whole chicken
• 2 (12 fluid ounce) bottles tsingtao beer
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon ginger, finely minced
• 1 tablespoon garlic, finely minced
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1 egg
• yellow food coloring
• cold water
• oil

Recipe

• 1 cut up the chicken into 10 pieces and set aside.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl blend beer, soy sauce, 2 tbsp oil, ginger, garlic, sugar, salt and pepper. add in the chicken pieces and mix well. let the mixture stand for 1 hour and longer.
• 3 in a mixing bowl blend flour, cornstarch, egg, food color and ice cold water into a thick batter. let this set for 30 minutes before using.
• 4 pour the batter over the marinade chicken pieces and blend well.
• 5 in a deep fryer fill with oil and when the temperature is at 350? add in small amount of battered chicken pieces and fried to a golden brown. when the chicken is done remove and drain onto paper towel.