If you dont, you are probably not human.
But anyway, I do like fried chicken especially taken with mashed potato and some yummy salad. Still, fried chicken can be unhealthy cos it is a high calorie dish and needless to mention, very oily. Unless if you have a good pressure cooker, it can be very oily indeed.
For awhile now, I've tried to make a more healthier food (though I'm not always successful in that endeavour) especially with those fried ones and ended up buying an airfryer. And. I. Love. It.
So here's the recipe I actually develop using airfryer. However, this recipe can be used with oven as well.
Ingredients:
1 piece of chicken rib cut into thin slices
(For this recipe I use a piece of rib but the best part to use is actually the wing part. I don't like wings so..
If you use wings, cut it into 2 parts i.e. drumlet and the actual wing)
Ready mix fried chicken flour
(ok this is a cheat. You can make your own mix if you want. If you don't know the recipe, Google it and you shall find)
Breadcrumb (optional)
Olive oil
1. Cut your piece of chicken into thin slices. Imagine: :fish finger.
If you want your chicken to be a bit thick it is ok too but the cooking time will be a bit longer.
2. Put your sliced chicken in a bowl. Coat them with the flour. If you prefer your chicken slightly salty, you can add your salt now. Or pepper if you want something a little hot (cos some like it hot). I dont like to add salt cos i think the flour flavor is already strong and you know, for healthy reason.
3. Leave them for about 15 to 30 minutes; a chance for the chicken to soak up the flour flavor.
4. On a plate, mix some flour with breadcrumb evenly. One by one, coat the chicken with the flour-breadcrumb mix and carefully put it on a tray/metal net (for airfryer). Arrange the chicken so the spacing is optimised.
5. Spray oil evenly onto the chicken. This is an important step. You need to get the oil as evenly as possible onto the chicken otherwise, well you chicken wont look as good.
6. Then you are ready to fry. For those who use oven, should heat up you oven before you even cut the chicken. For those using airfryer, we are ready to go baby!
7. For airfryer, i use 200 degree temperature for 5 minutes each side. Meaning, after 5 minutes i flip the chicken. So total cooking time is around 10 minutes. The time and temperature are depend on quantity and the thickness of your chicken. You have to experiment, really, what temperature works for you.
Walla..done.
If you ask me, the taste is of course different from the regular fried chicken cos this version is less oily but it is just as delicious. It is crispy (that surprises me too). But then again, to each his own.
Have a try. You wont regret it. Taa
