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The Dewi Fried Chicken


Today I work with drumsticks, one of my favorite part of a chicken. Ever since I pulled them out of the freezer, I already knew what to do with them. Well, I did plan the menu since last night. I'm just awesome like that.
I think in all of the worlds, I'm the only one who cooks chicken this way. But, if I'm wrong, please let me know. Sometimes I realize I live in a bubble.

Now, even though the best fried chicken ever is KFC-thank you, colonel sanders, you have made the world such a wonderful place- for home made fried chicken, I like doing it like this best. It's easy and tastes great. Basically, I like using simple ingredients, ones that will not overpower the real taste of the chicken (or other types of meat I work with), but rather enhance the flavor.

Kind of like make up. I like make up, but the kind that only helps me look human like every day. I'm not really into the glamorous look that makes people wonder if that's really you.
Just so you know, the 'no make up' make up takes me half an hour to put on. A waste of time and money? Depends.

Anyways, back to the chicken.
I had with me 9 pieces of drumsticks, since I'm only cooking for me and my daughter tonight. It's a normal portion for us, we don't eat very much. *roll eyes*



They're rather small looking drumsticks, any smaller I might have to call them drumlets.
First, we marinade the chicken with 2 1/2 table spoons of vinegar (ordinary,every day, garden variety vinegar), 2 tea spoons of salt, and 1 1/2 tea spoons of white pepper.
Be sure to mix it well before leaving them back in the fridge for 30 minutes to marinade.



Next, for the dry ingredients, I prepared 5 table spoon fulls of flour-all purpose will do- and 1/2 table spoon full rice flour or corn starch or potato starch, whatever you have in your kitchen.
Today I had with me self raising flour and potato starch, so I worked with those.


To this dry mix, I added 2 1/2 tea spoons of salt and 1 tea spoon of white pepper and 2 tea spoons of black pepper. I just love the aroma of pepper. That's why many of my recipes use that ingredient :).


Then we mix the dry ingredients and wait until the chicken is ready to be coated with the flour mix.



Once the chicken is ready, coat them with the flour mix THOROUGHLY (even in crevices). There's no batter or wet mix in this recipe, because I'm not really a fan of thick flour coating on any of my fried meats, well except for tempura. Those are wonderful. No, you don't have to understand it.


Then I heated up vegetable oil, enough to almost cover the chicken when I fry them, then proceeded to deep fry the drumsticks until they're golden brown.


I flip them around around 2-3 times to get them to brown evenly.


When they are looking like this, they are ready to be taken out of the oil.


The finished product, which my daughter and I gobbled happily. We left 1 piece for my husband for when after he's done with his company dinner, in case he wants a bite.

Ingredients:

9 pieces of small-medium drumsticks
2 1/2 table spoons of vinegar
2 tea spoons of salt
1 1/2 tea spoons of white pepper

Flour mix:
5 table spoon fulls of all purpose flour
1/2 table spoon full of corn starch
2 1/2 tea spoons of salt
1 tea spoons of white pepper
2 tea spoons of black pepper

Vegetable oil (enough to cover the chicken)

I hope this recipe is simple and turns out great for all of you, especially if you're a beginner. I love it when people get excited over how simple a recipe is and that gives them the courage to start cooking.

Have a tasty day!


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  1. kartika sari25 October 2015 at 00:19

    wiiiiii, nyontek resepnya yaa.. Looks super yummy tp ga ribet 👍🏼👍🏼

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    1. the dewi25 October 2015 at 03:04

      Silahkan Tik. Emang ga ribet. Masakan gue ga ada yang ribet lagi sebenernya hehehe. Kalau mau, lo bisa tambahin bubuk ketumbar sedikit aja (setengah sendok teh), lebih wangi jadinya. Kemarin kehabisan bubuk ketumbar jadi ga masuk ke resep yang ini, tapi tanpa bubuk ketumbar juga udah enak kok. Selamat mencoba ya

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