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Thank you all of you for giving me a lot of likes for my bento today. The main of this bento was Amakara chicken wings and mooli.

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Amakara is a Japanese word which means “sweet and salty”, although the taste is not that simple. When Japanese people use this word, they can imagine how it is going to taste because Amakara dish needs soya sauce and mirin (a kind of alcohol to make dish sweeter and shiny). If you do not have mirin, use mix of a shot of sweet white wine and a drop of honey.

Mooli is a huge white radish which is very common in Japan. If you can not find mooli st the nearest supermarket from where you live, just use turnip. As long as you have all seasoning this dish costs only a few pounds. Being healthy, easy and economical, I highly recommend you to give it a go!

[Ingredients] for 1 serving

• 2-3 chicken wings
• 2-3 slices/ pieces of mooli/ turnip
• a tbs of plain flour
• a tbs of sugar
• a tbs of sake/ white wine
• 1.5 tbs of soya sauce
• 1.5 tbs of mirin or mix of white wine and honey
• a teaspoon of vinegar
• a drop of sesame oil
• a pinch of sesame seeds
• 100g of water or vegetable/chicken stock.

[The night before prep] 5 min

1. Defrost chicken wings of they are frozen
2. Cut mooli/ turnip into bite-sized pieces and soak them in water in a tub.
3. Mix sugar, sake, soya sauce, mirin, vinegar and sesame oil in a small tub.

[In the morning] 12 min

1. Toss chicken wings into plain flour in a bowl. Make sure chicken wings are covered with the flour.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan and warm the frying pan up.
3. Fry chicken wings and mooli/turnip until the surface becomes crispy.
4. Pour the water/stock and mixed seasoning into the frying pan.
5. Turn off the cooker when all the moisture has gone and the outside of chicken wings and mooli become shiny and sticky.
6. Drizzle a pinch of sesame seeds.