Chicharones de Pollo

Chicharones de Pollo

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

Instructions:

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.