Healthy Fried Chicken

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Have you ever heard the word healthy and fried put into the same statement? Well, you have now! I love fried chicken, but I have never been very good at making it. It never wanted to get done or it was too done. Never an in-between. Plus, the whole “fried food is bad” ordeal. I mean no one wants to eat food that’s going to make them keel over….

Well, maybe that’s not true. Plenty of people eat non-organic, GMO foods and things in boxes disguised as food. Those don’t get a bad rap, though. It’s just the fried stuff.

Well, mostly. Other things get a “don’t eat this” stigma about them too. Like… Fats and ahem, milk. Well, fried chicken isn’t really bad for you.

Fried chicken that was fried in candle wax, er I mean crisco or whatever that junk is that pretends its lard on the grocery shelf, that’s bad for you. Mainly because you’re frying it in the candle wax, though. Not really because it is fried in general.

It’s a sad world we live in. I see so many recipes that call for “vegetable oil, canola oil, vegetable shortening” eh… no. Not doing it, sorry. That stuff is poison. My ancestors didn’t eat that junk, I’m sure as heck not going to.

It had to be made in a lab and bleached and all kinds of strange things had to be done to it to get rid of the rancid odors it emits. I can’t make it at home, I don’t even know what it is, I’m sure my body doesn’t either. I’ll just keep steering clear.

This fried chicken is healthy, though! It’s fried in beneficial, healthy lard. There is honestly no other way to fry chicken. Nothing will produce more flavorful, healthy, delicious, perfectly browned chicken than some lard and a cast iron skillet. I’m telling you, folks, you can’t go wrong!

Healthy Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 Whole, preferably locally raised and free range, Chicken (cut up)
• 2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
• 2 teaspoons Sea Salt
• 3/4 teaspoon Paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper
• 1 1/2 Cups Whole Milk
• 2 Farm Fresh Eggs
• 2 Cups Lard from Pastured Pigs (do not buy lard from the shelf at your grocery store, that stuff is hydrogenated and nasty)

Directions

1. Mix together your flour, sea salt, paprika, cayenne pepper, and black pepper in a dish large enough to handle your largest pieces of chicken.
2. Mix together your whole milk and farm fresh eggs. Beat eggs to make a wash. Make sure this is also in a big enough dish to handle your largest pieces of chicken.
3. Place your two cups of lard into a large cast iron skillet. I use a large #9 deep skillet for this. Turn heat on medium low to start melting your lard while you prepare your chicken.
4. First dip your chicken into the flour mixture and coat lightly.
5. Next, dip your flour coated chicken into the milk and egg mixture.
6. Then, dip your chicken back into the flour mixture until well coated.
7. Place chicken, three or so pieces at a time into the waiting pan of lard. Cook until well browned on each side, turning once until cooked through. This takes about 20 minutes for dark pieces and 12 for white pieces.
8. Drain, serve, enjoy.

That’s all there is to this amazingly delicious entree!! You should try it. Dare to go against that nasty crisco, vegetable oil, canola crap and use real, healthy oils to fry your chicken. Not only is it better for you, it tastes so much better!!! I hope you enjoy.

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