ASIAN NOT-TACOS
 
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: asian
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 3 lb chicken wings
  • 1 bunch thai basil
  • sprinkles of activa rm - meat glue
  • 1 leek
  • 2 jalapenos
  • some kimchi
  • about 4"x4" Kombu
  • ½ cupish bonito
  • 2 T soy sauce
  • 2 T mirin
  • 1 t rice vinegar
  • 1-3 drops liquid smoke
  • 4 cups AP flour
  • 2 cups boiling water
  • 2 cupsish cold water
  • sriracha
Instructions
Day One
  1. debone chicken wings
  2. layer ⅕ of wing meat into rectangle, skin side out
  3. sprinkle activa onto chicken with a strainer and layer in thai basil
  4. repeat layers until you run out of chicken
  5. put chicken into vacuum bag, or wrap tightly in saran wrap. you want to compress it together
  6. put in fridge overnight
  7. take chicken bones and seal in vacuum bag, or ziploc bag
  8. cook in circulator at 70c for 6 hours
  9. simmer kombu in water for 10 minutes
  10. take off heat, add bonito, let sit 10 minutes then strain
  11. strain bones from chicken stock
  12. mix stocks, add soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, and liquid smoke to taste as you reduce by 80%
  13. put in fridge
Day Two
  1. cut open your chicken block and reseal with about half the sauce
  2. cook for 6 hours at 70C
  3. watch that youtube video on how to make these
  4. put AP flour into a bowl
  5. add two cups boiling water and stir
  6. add cold water until dough comes together
  7. let rest one hour
  8. roll dough into tube and cut half dollars
  9. roll out and do the sesame oil sandwich thing
  10. cook in hot pan for about 1 minute, then separate
  11. reserve in oven
  12. cut jalapeno and leek down the middle
  13. sear jalapeno in very hot pan with sesame oil until blackened
  14. seal leek and jalapeno in tupperware or vacuum bag
  15. once the chicken block is finished, sear the outside of it
  16. slice up leeks and jalapenos
  17. put a slice or two of chicken block onto flour shell
  18. put some sliced up jalapeno and leek
  19. put on some kimchi
  20. drizzle some sauce
  21. drizzle some sriracha
Notes
I made these a while ago, and kept track of what I did and what ingredients I used, but not specific amounts of things especially for the sauce, so use your best judgement on some of it.
Recipe by Disturing the Peas at http://www.disturbingthepeas.com/on-asian-not-tacos/