The Best FRIED CHICKEN recipe

Good afternoon!

2:05pm, May 26th 2020, Tuesday.

It's the third day of syawal! Minal aidil wal fa izin to all muslims! Selamat hari raya!

Day 3 of Syawal 2020.

I ran out of ideas on what to cook today. I still had left overs nasi ayam rice from yesterday's meal/dinner. But the roasted chicken was gone in a sitting.

So i asked my husband if i can fry the drumlets we got the other day and he said go for it!

The recipe for this is as below:

Chicken marinate

1 kilo/ 15-20pcs of chicken drumlets

1 tbsp of smoked paprika powder

1tbsp of garlic powder

2tbsp of mixed herbs

1tbsp of cayenne powder

1tbsp of salt.

Method: 

1) Make a small cut about 1-2cm into the vein of the drumlets to help it cook faster and that when you're frying later, the blood will ooze out and you'll have a perfect all rounded cooked chicken!

2) Make sure you've washed and pat dry your drumlets with a kitchen towel and dump everything, drumlets and spices in a large bowl. Mix well and massage the spices into chicken for 5-7minutes to ensure that when we fry later the chicken will be tender.

3) Once that is all done, cover the bowl with a clingwrap and place it somewhere warm for 1 hour.

Frying mixture

1 cup of all purpose flour(sifted)

1 cup of cornflakes (crushed until small pieces)

1 tbsp of smoked paprika powder

1tbsp of garlic powder

2tbsp of mixed herbs

1tbsp of cayenne powder

1/2 tsp(teaspoon not tablespoon to ensure its not too salty!) of salt

2 eggs

Method:

1) Mix all the dry ingredients into a large bowl

2) Beat eggs in a different bowl.

How to fry chicken:

1) Prepare a straining area for your fried chicken so that after frying the oil will not soak into the chicken and make it soggy. What i would usually do is place a cooling rack over a tray

2) Heat up your oil on high and use a 9-11inch nonstick pot. I use alot of oil. Enough to submerge the drumlets fully for deep frying

3) Arrange your marinated chicken, flour mixture and eggs with chicken furthest away from your wok/pot of hot oil.

Ensure your oil is really hot before lowering the temperature to medium low.

4) Dip your marinated drumlets into the flour mixture and coat it fully before dunking it in the egg and back into the flour mixture for a second coating before putting it in oil to fry.

That's pretty much it guys! I usually lower the temperature of the heat few minutes before frying the chicken so that it won't burn.

And here is the finished result! I hope you like it!