Back to Basics: Fried Chicken

You may be wondering why i still need to write a post on fried chicken when it could be one of the easiest and fastest dish to cook. But what I really want to share is how you can truly enjoy the dish at its best. I mean, there is fried chicken and there is fffrrrrieeeed chhhicckkeeeen! Hahaha! Well, that is the case in our family anyway. We don't just make fried chicken anyday when there's nothing else to cook, but we cook it when we truly crave of a mean fried chicken. So, what do I mean by mean fried chicken? It's when we use fresh chicken, as much as possible the ones we get from the live chicken shops around town. If that's not possible, then we buy from the fresh section of the supermarket --- not from the frozen section. And of course, we cook the chicken immediately when we get home, not storing it over night or else it just defeats the purpose of our mean fried chicken. :)
To lessen the cooking time and to make sure that the chicken is cooked through, I cut the chicken in half. What I do is just to rub the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper. I have also crushed about 4-5 cloves of garlic to give the chicken a hint of garlic flavor. Heat a pan with enough oil to submerge the chicken fully. To check if the oil is hot enough, just drop a very small amount of corn flour in the oil. The flour should not splatter, but instead sizzle as the flour touches the oil. I then dropped the crushed garlic and then slowly slide in the chicken. Cook for about 8-10 minutes, depending on the size of your chicken (at an average I cook about 1.2kg chicken cut in half). Turn the chicken and cook the other side for about the same time.
Remove from pan. Set aside to cool for about 5 minutes, this will make the chicken skin retain its crispness. And I tell you, it will be as crisp as a crackling while the meat of the chicken remains soft and juicy.
Serve with a dipping sauce combination of UFC Banana Ketchup and Liquid Seasoning just the way our Big Ate loves it or with a siding of sliced tomato,onions with fish sauce.
Just one mean fried chicken from my kitchen to yours!


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