So, a little backstory… When I was a kid, there was this surprisingly authentic Japanese restaurant in my podunk rural California town. And one of their signature dishes was “peanut chicken”… And it was essentially a nanban style fried chicken cutlet in a sweet and savory peanut sauce. I’ve never been able to recreate it, it was just something I couldn’t put my finger on.
I’ve combed resources for recipes, and even posted here once upon a time. And the consensus was that it was just a family recipe. Now, I found this next to the register at my local Asian grocer, and it tastes very similar. Just a lot sweeter, and not quite as rich and savory.
Since I found this product, that tells me there is a use for it in Japan, so my question comes in layers. A) What is this typically used for B) What is the name for it in Japanese, and C) Does anyone have a recipe for it?
Non-related anecdotal lamentation: The original owners of this restaurant retired and sold the business, and it now features such very traditional dishes as, “Tha Sexy Roll”.
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It could be use as bang bang chicken peanut butter
Peanuts are not a native Japanese ingredient though they’re believed to have first entered Japan in the 17th century. There’s even a Japanese name for them 落花生 (rakkasei) though most people just call them ピーナッツ (pinattsu) now. Cultivation didn’t really begin until the late 1800’s, so it’s a relatively modern ingredient.
I’ve never seen a sauce like the packet in the photo here (I work in the food industry). It’s most likely that this product is made for the US market.
That being said, I did some searching and there are a couple of recipes on the web that look like they may be similar to what you described and in most of them it looks like the peanuts are in the breading and not the sauce. You can use the translation feature in your web browser (or google translate:
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So, a little backstory… When I was a kid, there was this surprisingly authentic Japanese restaurant in my podunk rural California town. And one of their signature dishes was “peanut chicken”… And it was essentially a nanban style fried chicken cutlet in a sweet and savory peanut sauce. I’ve never been able to recreate it, it was just something I couldn’t put my finger on.
I’ve combed resources for recipes, and even posted here once upon a time. And the consensus was that it was just a family recipe. Now, I found this next to the register at my local Asian grocer, and it tastes very similar. Just a lot sweeter, and not quite as rich and savory.
Since I found this product, that tells me there is a use for it in Japan, so my question comes in layers. A) What is this typically used for B) What is the name for it in Japanese, and C) Does anyone have a recipe for it?
Non-related anecdotal lamentation: The original owners of this restaurant retired and sold the business, and it now features such very traditional dishes as, “Tha Sexy Roll”.
It could be use as bang bang chicken peanut butter
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OvqKFj7QfnQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OvqKFj7QfnQ&t=0s)
Peanuts are not a native Japanese ingredient though they’re believed to have first entered Japan in the 17th century. There’s even a Japanese name for them 落花生 (rakkasei) though most people just call them ピーナッツ (pinattsu) now. Cultivation didn’t really begin until the late 1800’s, so it’s a relatively modern ingredient.
I’ve never seen a sauce like the packet in the photo here (I work in the food industry). It’s most likely that this product is made for the US market.
That being said, I did some searching and there are a couple of recipes on the web that look like they may be similar to what you described and in most of them it looks like the peanuts are in the breading and not the sauce. You can use the translation feature in your web browser (or google translate:
[https://www.meiji.co.jp/meiji-shokuiku/know/recipe/07_2/](https://www.meiji.co.jp/meiji-shokuiku/know/recipe/07_2/)
[https://sc-kogahoncho.jp/9547.html](https://sc-kogahoncho.jp/9547.html)