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As you know i like my food and do a bit of cooking, perfecting some of my favs. I have studied this one hard and got ingredients together, but my second stab at it, so bare with me. Try 1 tasted very like KFC and was nice and fresh. This is not expensive, although you may have to shell out a few quid on the spices up front, but indian/asian grocers/local spars should have em cheap as chips. Buy them in the bags, not the little jars like schwartz etc. Then you will spend less and be able to feast yourself on KFC chicken at home for many months for well under half the price.
The secret is in the spices you put in the flower to coat the chicken, and the marinade..
To coat a full medium sized chicken, you will need..
2 mugs of self raising flour. ( or plain with 2 tsp of baking powder)
1 tsp Smoked paprika
1 tbsp White ground pepper
1 tbsp Black ground pepper
2 tbsp Garlic powder
1 tbsp Onion powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp dried sage
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried basil
1 tbsp table salt.
1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper.
For chicken marinade (important)
half pint of full fat milk and 2 eggs (or just a pint of buttermilk is better, but tricky to get hold of).
i medium onion chopped.
(Why marinade the chicken? - To provide a wet surface for the spices and flour to stick to, and to flavour and moisten the chicken all the way through)
Method.
Put all dry ingredients (spices) into one bowl apart from the flour.
Put buttermilk (or eggs and milk whisked) into another bowl and finely chop a medium onion into the liquid.
Cut up chicken into wings, legs, thighs and chop breast into 4 bits to provide equalish portions. Keep skin on.
Lightly Sprinkle the chicken with some of the mix from the bowl with spices and rub in.
Chuck the chopped up and spiced chickan in the buttermilk/egg milk and onion mix for 3 hrs covered.
Put flour into the spices bowl and mix through.
You should have 2 vessels.
Like dis...
(to be continued a bit later..)
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