Desiccated Coconut Gula Melaka Chicken Wings

I joined a Facebook group named "Singapore Home Cooks" which hold many challenges weekly, This is the 4th week that they are holding it, the theme was "Chicken Wings". This is an ingredient that many home cookers will use in almost their daily meal like me. I decided to give it a try on a recipe using gula melaka. Gula Melaka is normally an ingredient used in dessert only till recently my friend, Rita, told me that she ate Gula Melaka Chicken Wings in a Nyonya Peranakan Restaurant with her family. According to her, it was tasty but too sweet.

With the inspiration from what she had mentioned and my unawareness of the actual taste, I take a risk to try cooking this dish. As we all know that coconut is always a best partner of gula melaka therefore I planned to combine this two ingredients together with chicken wings to work out a dish.

Here it is, first trial of this recipe.

Desiccated Coconut Gula Melaka Chicken Wings

Recipe attached as below:

Ingredients

3 pcs Chicken Wings
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Soya Sauce
1 pinch Grounded Pepper
1 tsp Ginger Juice
Cooking Oil (enough to fry the chicken wings)

Coating

100gm Plain Flour/All-Purpose Flour
1 egg
100gm Desiccated Coconut

Sauce

45gm Gula Melaka, crushed
15ml Water
25ml Coconut Milk
10gm Butter
¼ tsp Salt

Method

1. Season the Chicken wings with salt, soya sauce, grounded pepper & ginger juice for 2 hours or overnight.
2. Coat the chicken wings with plain flour then egg & lastly with dessicated coconut.
3. Deep-fried it till cooked.
4. Add the gula melaka & water in a thick bottomed pot and cook until gula melaka melted. Keep swirling the pan so that the sugar can cook evenly.
5. Once the gula melaka is boiled, take it off the heat and add butter. Stir until it's completely melted into gula melaka.
6. Next, add in the coconut milk and salt and whisk in until you have a consistent sauce.
7. Add in the chicken wings & coat well or you may choose to drizzle it over the chicken wings.
8. Serve & Enjoy !

*Note: 

• You can choose to increase the amount of ingredients for sauce as it can be store in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. 
• Serve it on a cake, in a cake, over ice-cream, tarts, crumbles, pancakes, brownies, waffles, toast, granola.