All About The Timeless And Savory Fried Chicken

By Jason Sullivan


One would really be hard put to look for a dish that is more recognized or appreciated worldwide. Also, unlike other foodstuffs, this does not come with a nationalistic label, like you get with Spaghetti Bolognese or French Fries. Indeed, fried chicken Merrick NY comes with all the hallmarks of cosmopolitanism, being embraced the whole globe over.

It is easy enough for a foodstuff to become subsumed in this category. At the very least, it has to be chicken, and it has to be fried. That seems so simplistically laughable. However, what is not often appreciated is that this foodstuff is actually more versatile than one might think. This is a kind of dish that has not only been globally adopted, but also adapted.

Perhaps the most well loved feature of this chicken foodstuff is its crisp coating. This breading, or crust, adds to the trademark browned look of this comestible. Unlike roasted poultry, this caters to the individual palate, what with being cut at the joints for a slightly larger than bite sized serving.

The chicken may be marinated with different kinds of ingredients, like buttermilk, for example. However, you still get the quintessential hallmark of the poultry, that is, the flavorful crust of the dish. That is due to the combination of intrinsic moisture and the flour coating, that which when meshed together, goes on to from a browned coating.

What sets this foodstuff apart from other cooking methods is that the chicken is generally not fried whole. Rather, it is first cut into smaller pieces, usually by the above mentioned constituent parts. Commonly, you get the so called white meat sections, the wing and the breast. The counterpart is the dark meat section, the drumstick and the thigh. The first section can be found in the front part of the poultry, and the second, at the rear.

As said, there are different ingredients and methods of cooking, depending on the individual palate. After inundating the chicken with seasoning, then it is ready to cook. It can be cooked in the standard, shallow frying pan, or else a deep fryer, and even a pressure cooker. Of course, it would not be fried without the nifty use of lard or oil.

This is perhaps the only dish of its kind which has been enthusiastically adopted universally. For example, you have the famous Korean fried chicken. And there is just no skating over the many branches and franchises of fast food chains which have this as their reigning comestible. These spin off recipes differ in their place of provenance, and though they likely differ in seasonings or methods of cooking, one can still remark on the quintessential quality of the classic poultry dish.

Although the trademark is the same, crispy exterior with meaty interior, one can already remark the differences with each given. That is due to the different cooking methods used, if not for the different ingredients added in. Usually, you get a batter coating of flour. However, this is sometimes appended with many kinds of seasoning, like milk, eggs, and other leavening agents. Other than that, they may be dredged with extra salt, pepper, paprika, onion, garlic, and other seasonings and dressing. And, of course, after dredging in these ingredients, you also have different ways and means of frying. There are totally no limits in the ways in which this dish can be inventive.

Although it is a staple foodstuff in most households, it also counts as a special occasion comestible. Not to mention that its versatility leads consumer to love it in newfound ways. Whatever ones preference, either spicy, salty, sweet or sour flavorings, your turf is here. There are many, many recipes, tweaked to suit the local palate, but which are also discovered and loved by global denizens.




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