Fried Chicken
March 13th, 2010 in Chicken, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 45min
It is the easiest way to cook chicken: get meat pieces, rub them with salt and spices, and then fry. Nothing complex and yet still very tasty.
Whole chicken legs are the best for this recipe, you can even get into more extreme and fry whole halves of chicken or cornish hen (bigger pieces are more juicy, but you may need to increase cooking time for big portions of meat).
Drumsticks, thighs and even wings can be cooked the same way: but you may need to reduce cooking time and increase amount of spices – just keep proportion of spice the same: 1 part of cumin to 1 part of ground black pepper to 2 parts of ground coriander – and it will be fine.
Ingredients:
- 4-5 chicken legs (2lb-2.5lb) or other chicken parts or equal weight
- 2 tbsp of ground coriander
- 1 tbsp of cumin
- 1 tbsp of ground black pepper
- Salt to taste
- Sunflower or olive oil
How to prepare, step-by-step:
-
Prepare ingredients: mix spices, rinse chicken with cold water and pat with paper towel:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 1 -
Rub each piece of chicken with salt from each side; then kindly rub with mix of spices:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 2 -
Repeat for each piece of chicken:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 3 -
Move chicken to a skillet warmed up with 2-3 tbsp of oil over medium-high heat:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 4 -
Fry for 2 mins and then turn chicken to the other side:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 5 -
Cover skillet with lid and fry chicken for 12 mins, flipping chicken to other side each 2 mins; don’t forget to cover skillet with the lid each time, if you see chicken getting too dark – reduce heat a bit:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 6 -
Add about cup of water to the skillet, reduce heat to low, cover skillet with a lid and cook for 8-10 mins more just until chicken is soft enough:
Fried Chicken Recipe: Step 7 -
Then fried chicken with spices is ready, serve it warm for dinner or lunch:
Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Summer Salad
yes please subscribe every new recipes to (email). it will be so good thanks a lot
I will look into it.
Please subscribe ( email to) recipes. Thank you.
hi there,
I believe this is my second mail, the first one was asking you for a recipe to make fried rice 🙂
So I have a question for you about this Fried Chicken recipe. for step #7, you say to add water. But it seems I don’t have the need for it because the chicken itself gave out water after covering it with te lid, it didn’t look like it needed extra water.
or did you mean add extra water to it?
If you can kindly clarify that titbit confusion, i’d be really grateful 🙂
thanks again from all of us for your fantastic website and the details it comes with
cheers!
The water there is needed to make sure chicken is cooked all the way through, it produces steam while cooking. I would still add a bit of it, even if you have a lot of juice.
Bta, have you tried the fried rice: https://www.enjoyyourcooking.com/main-dish-recipes/fried-rice-chicken-vegetables.html ? I liked the result, but wasn’t sure if that was the recipe you were looking for.