Jamaican Delicious Crispy Fried Chicken Dinner

This dish is one of Jamaicans main cuisines. It’s served in many restaurant and homes. Jamaicans likes the crispiness of the chicken. This dish is served with rice & peas, shredded cabbage and carrot. Dish can also be served with white rice and other vegetables..

Recipe

Serve 4-6 people

• 3-4 lbs chicken legs or thighs
• 2 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar to wash chicken
• 3 tbsp all purpose seasoning
• 2 tsp jerk season powder or hot sauce (optional to make chicken a little spicy)
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme (optional)
• 1 tsp paprika
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup evaporate milk
• 4 cup seasoned bread crumbs or finely crush corn flakes
• 1/2 cup flour
• Oil for frying chicken (enough to half cover chicken when frying). Can also deep fry if you have a deep fryer
• Preparation:
• (1) Soak chicken in water with vinegar or lime juice for 10 minutes
• (2) Drain water from chicken
• (3) Season chicken with all purpose season, thyme, black pepper, and hot sauce or jerk season (jerk powder optional)
• (4) Make sure you get the season into the chicken, do not remove skin, set aside in fridge for 1-2 hours.
• (5) Beat egg, milk and paprika, in a dish and set aside.
• (6) Mixed bread crumps or crushed corn flakes and flour together in a dish and set aside.
• (7) Dip chicken in egg, milk and, paprika mixture then dip into bread cups mixture (can do it without milk also)
• (8) Roll over chicken in bread crumps mixture until it is covered
• (9) Heat enough oil in frying pan to half cover chicken, oil should be hot but not smokey hot
• (10) Gradually lower the chicken with a fork into the hot oil.
• (11) Fry slowly until oil penetrate the inside of the chicken turning pieces occasionally
• (12) Inside of chicken should be properly cook and outside should be golden brown and crispy
• Note: If you want to make gravy for the chicken, just pour off some of the oil that you cooked with to about 1/4 cup. Cut up onion and other ingredients you want to put in it. Take 2 tablespoons of the bread crumbs mixture and 1 cup of water and combined with the other ingredients and simmer down in the oil until mixture is a little thickened