Possum Fried Chicken

(Southern Deep Fried Chicken)

 

 

Tonight, we did Possum Fried Chicken. In an effort in our on-going and in-depth research into perfect fried chicken I am tweaking my chicken fried steak batter recipe especially for fried chicken.

Here's my recipe for Possum Fried Chicken...

 

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts cut into half inch wide strips Marinated overnight in 1 oz. of vodka and 1 ½ cups of buttermilk 2 cups all-purpose flour (Or frying flour) 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon black (Or white) pepper 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons of granulated onion powder 2 teaspoons of granulated garlic powder 1 ½ cups buttermilk from the marinade 1 egg  2 teaspoons hot pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco™)

Preparation

Place 2 cups of flour in a shallow bowl.

In a separate shallow bowl, stir together the baking powder, baking soda, pepper, salt, onion powder and garlic powder. Then mix in the egg, Tabasco Sauce, and finally the buttermilk (in this order). This is your "batter".

Dredge each piece of meat, first in the flour, then in the batter, and again in the flour. Pat the flour onto the surface of each piece of meat so they are completely coated with dry flour. Set aside for 10-15 minutes. (setting aside to let it set is IMPORTANT! )

Heat your fryer up to about 350 degrees. (This is important, higher than this will make it brown too quickly!)

Heat up your oven to 350 degrees.

Fry the chicken until evenly light golden brown, not BROWN, it will finish cooking in the oven.

Place fried chicken on a cookie cooling rack with paper towels underneath them on a half sheet pan or cookie sheet to drain. Set aside for them to "rest".

When all of your chicken has been fried, put it all in the oven at 350 for another 10-15 minutes. If pieces are a little thick, go another 5 minutes.

Make your gravy and sides!

And then fight off an excited family to get it all to the table without people tasting things before it actually makes it to the table...

The best compliment a good cook can have is a "silent dinner table" - because everyone if too preoccupied with stuffing food in their faces to chit-chat!

We had a relatively silent dinner table this evening...