Name: Chaguanas-Style Fried Chicken
Yield: Serves: 6 to 8
Cuisine: Trinidad & Tobago
Ingredients: ⅓ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; ¼ teaspoon ground thyme; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ⅓ teaspoon baking powder; ¼ teaspoon hot pepper sauce; 1 cup evaporated milk; 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice; 2 teaspoons coarse salt; ⅓ teaspoon paprika; Canola oil for frying; 2 teaspoons garlic powder; ½ teaspoon dried oregano; 1 (3-4 pound) chicken, cut into 8 pieces with bones

Preparation info

Serves:
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Kentucky Fried Chicken and the local chain, Royal Castle, are very popular in Trinidad, but not without a Trini twist. The KFC chicken from my father’s home town of Chaguanas is widely agreed to be the best because of the copious amounts of pepper that somehow found its way into the Colonel’s recipe. I got the idea for this fried chicken as a result, which might call to mind the “Hot Chicken” popular in Tennessee.