Fried chicken recipe.
A dish readily associated with American fast food, fried chicken is not from Uncle Sam's country.
We're not talking about nuggets here, but whole pieces of breaded and fried chicken. Long before the Americans, Africans used to cook chicken this way. We owe the arrival of the recipe in the United States to the sad period of slavery.
White people have to deal with a paradox, on the one hand this dish is associated with black people and therefore frowned upon, on the other hand, they like it... many buy it and they will even go so far as to steal the recipe, since the first mention of fried chicken in a cookbook appeared in 1824 in The Virginia Housewife, written by a white woman from a slave-owning family.
She simply stole the recipe. But the person who appropriated the recipe and made a fortune from it is still a white guy, it's a certain Harlan Sanders, he's the one who founded the KFC chain.
It all started with a gas station he opened in 1929 in Kentucky where he prepared fried chicken. He had modified the recipe by adding a clever blend of spices of his own composition.
He then became so popular that the governor of the state awarded him the title of Kentucky Colonel. He subsequently opened a restaurant and his recipe was registered in 1940.
It was after the war that he launched into franchises under the name KFC. The first was opened in Salt Lake City in 1952, Utah.
He created his character: white suit, goatee and became the image of the brand which he sold a few years later to a large group.
The fried chicken recipe: Ingredients :
- a few pieces of chicken
- 4 tbsp flour or cornstarch
- 2 eggs
- unsweetened cornflakes
- mixture of spices (smoked paprika, coriander, chilli, pepper, cumin, etc.)
- Oil
- Salt pepper
1. Marinate the chicken pieces in a little oil and spices for 12 hours
2. Crush the cornflakes
3. Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour with a little salt, in the beaten eggs and cornflakes
4. Fry in oil at 180°C
