Saturday, 1 December 2012

Southern-Fried Chicken

This chicken is delicious! Make more than you think you'll need, it WILL get eaten!


Chicken thighs or drumsticks (skin on or off)
Juice of a lemon
½ cup plain flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp garlic salt
½ tsp ground bay leaves
Sunflower oil for frying

1.  Put the flour, cinnamon, garlic salt and ground bay leaves in a ziplock bag and shake lightly to mix.

2.  Dip the chicken in the lemon juice, then place in the ziplock bag, shaking to coat in flour mix.

3.  Use a frying pan which has a tight-fitting lid. Heat the oil. It should be 5mm/half inch deep and hot but not smoking.

4.  Place the chicken in the frying pan and allow to fry for 5 minutes until golden. Turn over, allow it to fry for 2 or 3 minutes more, then cover (the lid helps the chicken steam as well as fry. It also stays juicy, rather than going hard and stringy).

5.  Keep covered, on a medium heat, for 20 minutes, turning once. 

Serve hot or cold.

(Sieve the cooled oil and use for other recipes.)

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