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Have some fried chicken and give it a bit of Asian flair! With this Japanese Mochiko Chicken recipe, you can make this common Hawaiian “bento” and potluck item in the comfort of your own home, wherever you may be. I do enjoy exploring different ways of cooking chicken, particularly Asian-style options, and this is a good Japanese way of doing it, using mochiko (sweet rice flour).  The crust is softer than most recipes for American fried chicken but still very flavorful.

Though this recipe is for wings, and that is how you will most often see this recipe used, you can make use of other chicken pieces as well, including most skinless and boneless options.  Oh, and if you are having difficulty finding the mochiko, you can use something else with sweet rice flour in it, such as Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 Baking Flour. You may want to increase the amount of soy sauce, egg, and oyster sauce that you use in the batter, if you make that substitution, to keep the batter from being too thick and pasty.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Hi Cookery

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Quick tip: Marinate overnight for an even tastier result!

In a food rut?  Feel like breaking out the grill but don’t want anything too complicated or too same-old, same-old?  Then try this Honey Sriracha Orange Chicken!  Wow everyone with the name, blow them away with the flavor!  It is simple enough for a weeknight family meal but sure to thrill your guests at your next grill-out!

Repeat after me:  “Asian food does NOT have to be hard.”  Sure, as with any food tradition, there are plenty of recipes out there that require a great deal of time, skill, or both, and an expert cook in search of a true gourmet challenge may want to attempt them once in a while.  But you don’t HAVE to be a brilliant master chef or endure an intense labor of love to put together a delicious Asian-style dish.

I found this recipe to be incredibly easy to follow, and the results were delicious.  That juicy blend of sweet and spicy really hit the spot, and it was great for getting me out of that food rut that I had fallen into recently–yes, it even happens to me, sometimes.  (It was also a great excuse to break out the grill on a pleasant summer evening during the workweek.)

Recipe courtesy of RecipeGirl

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Quick Tip: Add more sriracha if you like your food hot and spicy!

This Slow-Cooked Chinese Classic is Full of Yum!

I am a sucker for Asian cuisine.  Don’t get me wrong – there are plenty of good-old American dishes that I love, too:  red beans and rice, seafood gumbo, a warm bowl of chicken and dumplings on a frosty night… among many others.

But there is something about a well-executed Asian dish that gets me all tingly, sometimes. I can recall all too many times when I stopped at the Walmart deli, in need of a quick, inexpensive bite to eat, and ordered their version of General Tso’s Chicken.  If the homemade version of General Tso’s is like a week-long summer vacation on a Florida beach, reassuringly familiar yet also a nice escape from the everyday, the Walmart rendition of it is like a weekend version of the same trip:  You still enjoy it but usually leave feeling that it could have been so much more.

With this recipe to guide you, there is no need to settle for a lesser version of such a classic, so long as you have a crockpot and the time to let it work its magic.

Original Recipe Creme de la Crumb

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Quick Tip: If you like hot and spicy, add even more red pepper flakes!