Fried Chicken

I recently had a craving for fried chicken, so I created this recipe. The bread I used for the breadcrumbs was homemade bread. The recipe will be posted shortly.

Ingredients:

• 4-6 cups of bread, cubed

• Kosher salt

• Pepper

• Garlic powder

• Onion powder

• Cayenne

• Ancho chili powder

• 1/3 cup of gluten free flour

• 1/3 cup of corn starch

• 2 eggs

• Chicken (preferably bone-in)

• Canola oil

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200ºF

• Cube bread, place on baking sheet, and put in oven for 30-40 minutes

• Put bread in blender and add Kosher salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, and ancho chili powder to taste (as a guideline, roughly 1 tablespoon of salt, ½ tablespoon of pepper, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon of onion powder, 1 teaspoon of ancho chili powder, and ¼ to ½ of a teaspoon of cayenne)

• Blend mixture until it has a similar appearance to sand, set aside

• In a bowl, combine flour and corn starch, set aside

• In a separate bowl, whisk eggs

• If you have a breading set, put breadcrumb mixture, flour mixture, and eggs into their respective dishes, otherwise use bowls and/or plates

• Take a piece of chicken, dip in flour mixture, then eggs, then dip and cover in breadcrumbs; repeat until all pieces of chicken are covered

• Heat up oil to 350ºF (make sure to use enough so that the chicken pieces are completely covered)

• In batches, add the chicken to the oil for about 12 minutes for dark meat and about 18 minutes for white meat, turning the chicken about halfway

• Remove chicken and place on a plate lined with paper towels

• Sprinkle salt and cayenne pepper on top

• Let chicken rest for 10 minutes