Chicharones de Pollo
Part of Fried Chicken: Three Ways
While chicharones are traditionally crispy pork, here I am just taking the crispy and flavorful aspects of it, and using it for the world’s greatest food, fried chicken.
ingredients:
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup lime juice
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 Tbsp sugar
2 pounds chicken, cut into bite sized pieces
Vegetable oil
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon pepper
In a small bowl, stir together the garlic, lime juice, soy sauce, and sugar. Pour the mixture in a freezer bag, and add the chicken, cover with plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge for a few hours.
Heat oil in a pan. I don’t like to deep fry, but shallow fry. So just enough oil to go up about 1/2 on a large pan.
Whisk together the flour, paprika, salt and pepper in a bowl. Remove the chicken pieces from the marinade and pat dry. Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour.
Fry the chicken pieces, only about 3-5 minutes on each side, until nicely browned. I always like to drain fried foods on a wire rack, instead of paper towels. so that the chicken doesn’t soak back up that nasty oil.
This is great with rice, or even with tortillas and some salsa.
I love hearing the suggestion for draining the fried chicken on the racks instead of paper towels – such great advice. I am loving these posts on the chicken – I wanna just jump in and chow down!
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