Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Sabado fried chicken nights + cooking tip

You know those lazy Saturdays where you just want to curl in the sofa and watch one thing after another in your tv or in our case from our pc monitor? (uhm, while waiting for the laundry- realistically speaking). I have this simple recipe to top these times with smothering calories! lol.

I made these chickens during one of our Saturday nights movie and alcohol marathon which turned out to be just a movie and chicken marathon.



All you need are

Chicken wings or any part you like

Oil for frying

For coating:

I used 1:1/4 ratio of flour and cornstarch

Iodized salt

Freshly ground black pepper

White pepper

Garlic powder

Dashi

100 ml water. Amount varies on how thick you want your batter. I don’t want it to be runny so I used around this much.

Super simple. I didn’t even marinate the chicken. Just put all coating ingredients in a bowl and dip your chicken with it before frying. Here’s a frying tip though. We found it best to use a pressure cooker to cook fried chicken! Just put enough oil to cover the bottom of the pressure cooker or if you have lots of oil about 1 cm from the bottom, bring it to heat, and when its ready put your chicken and cover, set in low fire for 1-2 minutes, then turn off the fire. The pressure is high inside, it will make your chicken soft to the bones without burning the skin and coating. Open only when safety valve -the thing that pops up and down (that small thing that indicates if pressure is still high so don’t force open or you’ll regret it..I guess you know what im talking about) is released. Do this again for the next side. But if you do this using a lot of oil to deep fry your chicken you only need to do this once.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

looks and sounds good ganda! too bad i dont have a pressure cooker... :( ano ba un takot ako jan hahahaha. but im getting one yung walang nakakatakot na valve... this:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8629353&type=product&id=1194051313139

mukhang rice cooker wehehe

keep the recipes coming!! you're doing a good job

raqueLLe said...

ang old school ng pressure cooker ko! haha! gusto ko din nyan!!

karmi said...

i'll keep this tip in mind. i'm experimenting a lot in the kitchen too. gone are the easy obento-buying days of Tsukuba. now i try to use the oven often to cook meats. trying to keep the weight off for my wedding day. but for game nights i won't be able to resist those deep fried wings!!

raqueLLe said...

weight off? i cant picture you gaining weight at all! try it, easy and fun. and i think fried chicken while watching is a guy thing too. happy bonding! :)