Black pepper chicken chop!

Cooking class is really fun if you get to experience hands on cooking with the chef. Catherine Lau was my chef on how to cook black pepper chicken chop. She loves to use US potatoes in most of her cooking because her kids love potatoes. And then she came out with the Hainanese chicken chop with layered potatoes recipe. I still think black pepper chicken chop serves well with mashed potatoes. Love them sooo much! My mom in law was excited over this cooking class and she asked if I want to attend and I just said ok! So, here goes the trial for the family few months after my cooking class! Sounds like a future chef with the term cooking class. Haha!

De-boned chicken thigh and chicken breast... good job to my mom in law, I didn't know how to do this. And marinade for at least half a day with some black pepper, soy sauce, salt, dash of pepper and some sesame oil. Can add oyster sauce if you like, and usually I don't. Don't consume too much oyster sauce, might get kidney stone (according to my grandma, so listen!)

After marinade and left it in the fridge for at least half a day, coat with some egg and then crispy flour and deep fry it. Don't overcook else the chicken will be hardy.

Chicken chop done! Next step is to prepare for the black pepper sauce.

I used the de-boned chicken bones to boil the soup and after 1 hour, drain the soup and set aside. Stir fry the chopped onion until caramelize to bring out deep, rich, sweet flavor as the natural sugars in the onions caramelize. Then add in about 2 tablespoons of black pepper and some chopped garlic, stir fry again until fragrant. Add in the chicken stock that you've drained just now and salt to taste. Simmer with slow fire for about 30 mins (as long as you like) and then add in some cornflour to thicken the soup. You can opt to cook this gravy first as it might take up about 2 hours.

Done!!! Pour the black pepper sauce gravy on the fried chicken and here it goes, Black Pepper Chicken Chop. We served this with some mashed potatoes and it turned out to be a great meal!

Ingredients that you need:
- Black pepper (fresh and pound it)
- chicken thighs/breast
- soy sauce
- pepper
- salt
- crispy flour (if you don't have, just mix some cornflour + rice flour to make it crispy)
- 1 egg
- chopped onion, chopped garlic

That's all......... simple!