Hyejin’s Double Fried Korean Chicken

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Hyejin’s DD Fried Chicken

Hyejin DD Fried Chicken

Hyejin’s DD Fried Chicken

I am lucky to work with a group of very talented chefs that work diligently. Chef Hyejin has been working with us for over a year and I have seen her grow as a person, chef, and teacher in that time. She has an incredible arsenal of techniques and the keen attention to detail that transform food from into an experience.

One of our first students, Joseph, has been taking classes with us for one year because he is planning on opening a fried chicken restaurant in his homeland. His family owns a chicken farm there and fell in love with the way Koreans do chicken.

Hyejin has developed many recipes and sauces for Joseph and we think we are nearing chicken perfection.

In the pictures you can see the different types of chicken she has come up with. We learned the best way to add crackle to the chicken is to dredge the chicken in a mix of flour and corn starch and then let it sit for at least 2 hours in the fridge. They you fry it once and let that sit for a while and then you refry it just before serving.The sauce on this once is a mix of soy sauce, starch syrup (mul yeot), and a bit of garlic.

Hyejin also came up with some great sauces with red chili paste (gochujang) as a base. The secret for using this stuff is to make sure you throughly mix everything into the paste before basting it on the chicken.I think we have a solid arsenal of sauces and chicken recipes for Joseph.

Hopefully he will be successful.Good luck Joseph!

To be continued.

About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.