essential fun food: rustic spicy chicken nibbles

How To Make essential fun food: rustic spicy chicken nibbles

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  THE MARINADE
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  Gather your ingredients.
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  Combine the milk and the cider vinegar together, in a large bowl or Ziploc bag and allow the mixture to stand for ten minutes.
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  Cut the chicken breasts into random sizes; however, try to keep the thickness of the slices close to the same size. This is so they fry up at the same time.
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  Add the remainder of the marinade ingredients, and thoroughly mix.
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  Chef’s Note: I usually use about a teaspoon each of salt, and pepper, but that’s totally up to you.
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  Place the chicken nibbles into the bag, and coat with the marinade.
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  Stick it in the fridge for a couple of hours or, better yet, overnight.
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  THE CHICKEN NIBBLES
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  Gather your ingredients.
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  Add the flour, cayenne, and paprika to a bowl and thoroughly combine.
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  Add about 2 inches (5cm) of peanut oil to a heavy-bottomed skillet or pot, over medium heat and bring the temperature up to 350f (175c).
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  Remove one of the chicken nibbles from the marinade, shake off the excess, and dreg in the flour mixture.
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  Repeat until you have enough chicken nibbles to make enough to drop into the hot oil.
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  Add the chicken nibbles to the oil.
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  Allow them to fry until the chicken is cooked through, and they start to turn a nice golden brown, about 3 to 5 minutes.
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  Chef’s Note: Repeat for the remaining chicken nibbles.
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  Chef’s Tip: Drain the chicken nibbles on some paper towels before plating.
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  PLATE/PRESENT
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  Chef’s Tip: Since these chicken nibbles are spicy hot, I like to compliment them by serving a cool dipping sauce. A honey/mustard sauce (Dijon, honey, mayo) usually goes over well with my guests.
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  Serve while nice and warm with a good dipping sauce, and some lemon wedges. Enjoy.
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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  RECIPE VARIATION
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  I also made these using a tempura batter. I used the same spices with the flour coating, but added about a cup of light beer, and made a batter. Then dipped the chicken into batter and straight into the hot oil…. EXCELLENT!!!
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