How To Cook Miso Chicken Breast, Broccoli Tempura & Soy

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  • Difficulty easy
  • Serves 2
cooked miso chicken breast, broccoli tempura & soy

Ingredients

  • INGREDIENTS FOR THE CHICKEN:
  • 2 chicken breasts (thighs also work well with this recipe)
  • Peanut or sunflower oil for frying
  • Bunch tender stem broccoli (blanched in boiling salted water for 1 minute, refreshed in cold water & drained)
  • Small bunch spring onions thinly sliced on a angle
  • Small bunch fresh coriander
  • Piece of ginger root (peeled then cut into thin strips & soaked in boiling water with a little sugar)
  • 1 tsp. toasted sesame seeds
  • INGREDIENTS FOR THE SAUCE:
  • 30ml light soy sauce
  • 40ml Shaoxing rice wine
  • 20g Red miso paste
  • 1 clove garlic finely diced
  • INGREDIENTS FOR THE TEMPURA:
  • 75g plain flour
  • 75g corn flour
  • ½ tsp. fine salt
  • 170ml chilled fizzy water
  • 1 F/R egg yolk

miso chicken breast, broccoli tempura & soy recipe ingredients

Method for the chicken

  1. Divide the marinade into half, using one half to brush onto the chicken and reserving the rest for a dipping sauce to be placed on the table.
  2. Take a heavy based frying pan, or BBQ set for direct grilling and over a high heat sear the chicken for 4 to 5 minutes on each side reducing the heat if getting too dark until thoroughly cooked with a core temperature of minimum 65°C before resting, brushing the chicken with extra marinade as it cooks, leave to rest for a few minutes whilst you finish the tempura.

cooked chicken breast

Method for tempura

dipping tempura in batter

  1. To start prepare the vegetables and weigh out the tempura ingredients.
  2. Heat a fryer (or a large pan a third full) of peanut or sunflower oil to 180°C.
  3. Once the oil has come up to temperature, using chopsticks quickly beat the egg yolk into the ice-cold water then into the flour with chopsticks, until you have a lumpy batter similar viscosity of double cream.
  4. Check the temperature of the oil by dropping in a little batter into oil - it should sizzle immediately - then fry the ingredients in small batches, dipping them in the batter to coat before carefully placing into the oil and fry 3 to 4 minutes until crisp and lightly coloured.

fried tempura

To serve

  • Slice the chicken across the breast and place on warmed serving plates, top with broccoli tempura. Scatter over fresh coriander, spring onions, ginger strips and sesame seeds. Serve alongside the reserved dipping sauce and Wasabi.

cooked miso chicken breast, broccoli tempura & soy