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Chicken Salted Egg

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40 mins
fried
main dish

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by Tommi Budiman
Published on 18 June 2022
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Chicken salted egg is a dish that originated in Singapore but has an influence from China because it uses salted eggs. However, salted eggs themselves are widely consumed in Southeast Asian countries.

The dish base is fried chicken and is very savoury, thick and creamy because of the sauce, which uses salted egg and milk. It's pretty easy to make, and you can try to make it. Chicken salted egg is very suitable to be eaten with warm rice.

Because the savoury taste is already there from the salted egg sauce, I don't use a lot of seasonings in this recipe, just salt and pepper. The important thing to take note of is we just use the egg yolk of the salted egg to make this dish. In this recipe, I also add two red chillies to add spiciness, and if you don't like spicy food, you can use one chilli or none.

A tip from me is that when you mix the sauce and the fried chicken, don’t turn on the heat. This process aims to make the chicken coated evenly with sauce. We don't want to overcook!

Chicken Salted Egg

by Tommi Budiman
servings
2 people
prep time
20 mins
dish type
Fried
cook time
20 mins
course
Main dish
total time
40 mins

ingredients

  • For the Fried Chicken

    • 150 gramchicken thigh
    • 1 tspsalt
    • 1 tsppepper
    • 4 tbspall purpose flour
    • 2 tbsprice flour
    • 1 pc(s)egg
    • 200 mlcooking oil
  • Salted Egg Sauce

    • 2 pcssalted egg (use the yolk only)
    • 2 pcsred chilli
    • 6 pcslime leaf
    • 1 tspgarlic(minced)
    • 1 tbspall purpose flour
    • 1 tbspbutter
    • 1 tspsalt
    • 1 tsppepper
    • 1 tspsugar
    • 150 mlmilk

instructions

Making the fried chicken

  1. Cut the chicken thigh into thumb sizes.
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  2. Crack an egg and give seasonings; salt and pepper. Mix it well.
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  3. Get a bowl, and mix the all-purpose flour and rice flour. Coat the chicken with the flour one by one and shake off the excess flour.
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  4. Get a wok, pour cooking oil and heat over medium heat. Fry the chicken until golden brown approximately 4-5 minutes.
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  5. After that, you can turn off the fire and set aside the fried chicken.
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Making the Salted Egg Sauce

  1. For the spices, you can cut the chillies into slices and mince the garlic. For lime leaves either wash only or cut is up tp you.
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  2. Cut the salted egg in the middle, and take out the egg yolk.
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  3. Over medium heat, put the butter, minced garlic, chillies,the egg yolk and lime leaves. Stir fry it until fragrant and then add a tablespoon of all-purpose flour.
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  4. Pour the milk, and keep stirring it until the sauce thicken. Then you can turn off the fire.
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  5. Turn off the heat and add the fried chicken. Mix it well with the sauce.
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  6. The chicken salted egg is ready to serve !! You can have it with rice on side or top it over rice.
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