(I used 2 kg Chicken Drumsticks. Additionally, a lot of patience and an acceptance that I have to eat the chicken, the next day). Also, I intended to use wings, but didn’t find it at the local store. 🤷🏻♀️
A tip:
Make incisions for your drumsticks to make it easier to cook them on the inside. I do this, always.
MARINADE #1
Buttermilk (2 cups of milk + 2 tbsp lemon juice and set aside for 10 mins until the milk curdles)
Salt
Refrigerate min. for an hour.
Max. 4 hours.
MARINADE #2
(I winged the quantities, but the below mentions the minimum you’d require for a nice & tasty chicken leg piece)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp (or wing it) red chilli flakes depending on your pallet
1 tbsp garlic powder
2 tbsp paprika
1/2 tsp sugar just because you want to
2 tbsp red chilli powder or however much you want to make yours spicy 🌶
Any other spices your intuition thinks will go with the flavours you want. Have fun! 😌
To continue the process:
Separate the chicken from the buttermilk.
Mix the above ingredients.
Half the mixture and mix one part of it with the chicken, the other half with the buttermilk. Give the chicken some love, use your hands to mix the spices well. Then soak the chicken back into the buttermilk mix.
Cover it and keep in the fridge for min. two hours or do it like me and keep it overnight for the best flavours.
The flour mix:
All-purpose flour- 2 cups more or less
Cornflour- 1 cup
Red chilli powder- 1 tbsp
Garlic powder- 1 tbsp
Baking powder- 1 tbsp
Black pepper- to taste
Salt- to taste
Paprika- 1 tbsp
Mix all this and set aside.
Okay, an hour prior to frying this: take your chicken out from the fridge, separate it from the buttermilk.
Now, take your chicken, apply the flour mix, soak in the buttermilk marinade, apply the flour mix again.
Set aside on a plate. Refrigerate it for 30-45 mins so that the flour doesn’t leave the chicken whilst frying.
On a medium flame, get your deep-frying pan ready with oil enough to accommodate your chicken pieces. On a low-medium heat, once the oil is ready for frying, get your chicken out of the fridge and put them in the pan and let them cook in peace for 12-15 mins each. Ideally, at the 6th-7th minute, flip it. Wings will require lesser time, maybe between 8-12 mins each.
It’s time-consuming if you lack patience like me, but if you want juicy fried chicken- you know you want to commit to this.
I’d love to see your rendition of this recipe, so I’m waiting for pictures.
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Don’t be frightened by the length of this recipe. I just wanted to be as detailed in recording this historical event.
Let me know in the comments if you try this.
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