Saturday, January 17, 2009

Chinese Frog Legs


Last night I took a cue from the classic Hunan-American Chinese dish "Sesame Chicken" in order to turn some frog legs into a sweet-and-spicy, deep fried snacky!



The process started with an overnight marinade in some grated garlic and hot chili oil. The next evening, I added a little soy sauce to the marinade for salt and extra moisture and then heavily dusted the legs in a mixture of corn starch and flour. I deep fried these legs twice to get them extra crispy and then tossed them in a glaze made from:

Soy sauce
May Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce
Hoisin
Sriracha
Garlic
Ginger

This sauce got reduced on the stove top... down to about 2/3 of it's original volume. I thought about adding honey to the sauce but to keep the sweetness of the honey more in the foreground of this spicy salty glaze, I just drizzled it onto the legs after glazing.

Sesame seed and scallion garnish.

Nice.

1 comments:

Mike said...

those are some sexy legs.