Popeyes Fried Chicken Recipes

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.

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.