Fried Chicken
Mmmm…fried chicken. Arguably one of my favorite meals of all time. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and corn. Mmmmm…
Fried Chicken
Chicken - I use boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Use what you like.
Flour - you’ll need about a cup for 3-4 breasts.
2 eggs
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder/salt
oil
Pour oil into your frying pan or skillet. Enough so about 1/4 inch covers the bottom of the pan. Turn the burner to medium. On my oven I set it at 5. Let the oil heat while you prepare the chicken.
Rinse the chicken and cut off any veiny or fatty parts that are disturbing. Beat the eggs in one shallow bowl. In a second shallow bowl, combine flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder/salt to your liking. I don’t ever measure, I just shake a bunch in the bowl and call it good.
Dip the chicken first in the egg, then in the flour mixture. Place chicken in hot oil to fry. Cover the pan/skillet. Start the potatoes boiling.
Turn after 8 minutes or so.
Then turn again after another 8 minutes. I usually turn mine so that they are on each side for a total of 12-15 minutes, give or take a few, depending on the thickness of the breast. After the second turn, cut into the thickest part of the biggest one and check for doneness.
Drain off much of the oil from the pan, but use the rest of the drippings to make gravy. Use milk instead of water for a creamier chicken gravy…mmmm…gravy…
Done. Or add these. Done.
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This looks so good. You want to come to CA and cook for me!?!
I never used eggs… just flour. Interesting. I bet that makes a thicker crust. Mmmm… oily, chickeny crust…
Mmmmm… fried chicken. Do you put an addictive chemical in it that makes people crave it fortnightly? (I don’t know how to make this a link, and warning for those with children or bosses - the last word is a swear.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo
That’s one of my favorite meals too! All of it! Yummy! Tonight I’m having a roasted turkey breast, mashed potatoes, gravy of course, corn, bisquits & pudding in a cloud. Mmmmm….
And I like different coatings for different things I fry. Chicken is cracker meal….zucchini- flour…shrimp-oops, you hate shrimp. But now it will be interesting to try flour on the chicken.
I like to use flour, then egg, then panko crumbs - they get crispy and delicious.
I can only oven bake chicken…..it comes out the same, but if I try to fry it, it only turns a very bad color and sets off the smoke alarm. Brittney spent two days with my mom learning to fry chicken, and she does it amazingly, so she does all the frying now.
But isn’t that what kids are for?
Oh, the gravy, the yummy-yummy gravy!
I love that you combined super-fatty frying with lean & mean breasts. I sent the recipe immediately to Susana. So that when I learn to cut up a whole chicken (one of these days), I’ll make up some breasts and try it out! I recently discovered that there’s a cooking for engineers post on cutting up a whole chicken. That’s going to become my friend.
My sister worked in a Chinese restaurant in college and learned how to cut up a whole chicken with a cleaver in ten seconds. (or so she claimed….)
My dashund Max could catch & kill a live chicken flapping around my yard in 30 seconds.
They could make a dynamite team!