Creole Fried Chicken

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      40 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

American fried chicken is almost always covered in batter or another dry coating. Elsewhere, however, chicken is often fried after a brief marinade in a sauce; the results are not as crunchy but really different and quite delicious. (Plus, fried chicken without batter keeps better.) If you want a supercrunchy fried chicken. The marinade for this Cuban version traditionally contains sour orange juice, but a mixture of orange and lime juice is a good su