Popeye Fried Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• In a shallow dish or bowl mix together the flour, cornstarch, seasoning salt, paprika, baking soda, dressing mix, soup mix, spaghetti sauce mix and sugar. Place cereal crumbs in another shallow dish or bowl, and mix together eggs and water in a third shallow dish or bowl.
• Heat oil (1 inch deep) in a large skillet over medium high heat. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Dip chicken pieces into dry coating mix, egg/water mixture, cereal crumbs, briefly into dry mix once more, then drop into hot oil skin side down. Brown for 3 to 4 minutes, then brown other side of each piece.
• Place browned chicken pieces in a 9x13 inch baking dish, skin side up, and cover dish with aluminum foil leaving one side open for escaping steam.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 to 45 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and tender and juices run clear. Remove cover and bake another 5 minutes to let coating become crisp; serve.

Steps:

• cut chicken into breast, thighs, legs and wings.
• place chicken pieces in a zip lock bag with 4 cups of balsamic vinaigrette marinade.
• Let chicken marinade 12 hours in refridgerator.
• WET Batter - place 2 cups of all purpose flour, 1 cup of corn starch, 1/2 cup of mustard powder, 2 tbs of backing powder, 1 tbs of paprika, 1 tbs cayenne, 1 tbs onion powder, 1 tbs salt and 4 cups of chicken stock in a mixing bowl.
• Mix wet batter in a bowl with a hand mixer with whisk attachment. Mix until thinner than pancake batter. Place 5 ice cubes in batter to chill the batter. Once ice cubes melt give a final whisk.
• Place 4 cups of all purpose flower in a seperate bowl for dredging.
• remove chicken from marinade right out of the refrigerator and place on a drying rack.
• once drained place chicken pieces in wet batter for a good coating.
• remove chicken from wet batter and place in dry flower dredge and toss for the dry coating. Once a generous coating is applied, slap two pieces together to remove loose flower and proceed to fryer.
• Deep fry chicken at 340 degrees for 12 minutes in a medium cast iron dutch oven. Use shortening for the oil. Roll chicken at 8 minutes and remove after cooking for 12 minutes. Fry like pieces together until finished.
• Chicken and batter need to be cold to the touch before frying.
• You can adjust the seasoning to your taste depending on what you want your chicken to taste like, Spicey or Mild.
• Try to keep oil at 340 degrees, a 5 degree +/- variance is ok.

Steps:

• Combine first 9 ingredients in large bowl.
• Put the cornflakes into another bowl.
• Put eggs and water in a 3rd bowl.
• Put enough corn oil into a heavy roomy skillet to fill it 1 inch deep.
• Get it HOT!
• Grease a 9x12x2-inch baking pan.
• Set it aside.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Dip the chicken pieces 1 piece at a time as follows: Into dry coating mix.
• Into egg and water mix.
• Into corn flakes.
• Briskly but briefly back into dry mix.
• Drop into hot oil, skin-side-down and brown 3 to 4 minutes on medium high.
• Turn and brown other side of each piece.
• Don't crowd pieces during frying.
• Place in the prepared pan in a single layer, skin-side-up.
• Seal in foil, on 3 sides only, leaving 1 side loose for steam to escape.
• Bake at 350~ for 35-40 minutes removing foil then to test tenderness of the chicken.
• Allow to bake uncovered 5 minutes longer to crisp the coating.
• Leftovers refrigerate well up to 4 days.
• Do not freeze these leftovers.