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sliced thin cooked chicken-breast cutlets with a light crisp coating beneath a thin red-brown gochujang glaze and sparse sesame seeds on an ordinary plate, with no thigh chunks, rice or vegetable sides
Melissa Hart

Air Fryer Korean Chicken

Thin breast cutlets get a light rice-flour coating before a quick gochujang glaze, giving this Korean-style chicken broad crisp edges instead of a bowl of battered thigh chunks; brush on the glaze sparingly so it will cling to the cooked coating without soaking through it, and a very short return to the basket sets the sauce before its sugar burns. Slice after resting briefly so the surface stays attached to the chicken rather than peeling off under the knife.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 4 cutlets about 1/2 inch thick
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1 tbsp water for coating
  • 1/3 cup white rice flour
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp fine salt
  • 2 tbsp neutral oil
  • 2 tbsp gochujang
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 2 tbsp water for glaze
  • 1 tsp finely grated fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds

Method
 

  1. Preheat a 6-quart air fryer to 390°F for 3 minutes. Beat egg white with coating water and mix rice flour, cornstarch and salt in a separate shallow dish.
  2. Dip cutlets in egg white, press into a thin flour coating and shake off loose powder. Dab with oil until dry patches are moistened.
  3. Arrange 2 cutlets in the basket and air fry for 5 minutes, turn and cook for 5 to 7 minutes more until lightly crisp and at least 165°F. Repeat with remaining cutlets.
  4. Meanwhile, simmer gochujang, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, glaze water and ginger in a small saucepan for 2 minutes until smooth and lightly thickened.
  5. Brush cooked cutlets thinly with glaze and return them to the air fryer in batches for 1 minute each. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, rest for 2 minutes and slice into strips to serve.