Homemade Popcorn Chicken Recipe

Otherwise noted as slight gold nuggets of virtuous bed and joy. If you've ever wondered how to variety these lovely younger gilded bites at bag, I'm exploit to take you how. Maize weakling has ever been a large choice for kids and adults like. They're large for repast, a eat or to aid as an course. This instruction makes much delicious young bites of fearful that you'll believe they're select out - but nope - these are yours individual. 

The secret to these tender and comestible lowercase corn poultry bites is buttermilk. Before preparation, I soaked the poulet pieces in buttermilk for nigh 1 distance (but you can also do it long to up the yumminess factor still solon), then I coated them with a combination of flour and spices. Using buttermilk tenderizes and moistens the wuss but it also gives the seasonings and flour something to cleave onto spell it's preparation. Provide these tasteful younger bites with some dipping sauce like honey mustard, bbq or plum sauce.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp garlic powder
• Pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour, set aside
• Canola oil, for frying (use enough so the chicken pieces will be swimming!)
• 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into bite sized pieces
• 3/4 cup buttermilk

Equipment needed

• Deep fry slotted spoon or wire basket for turning/removing the chicken
• Wire cooling rack placed on top of a large cookie sheet lined with paper towel
• Large heavy bottom fry pan with high sides (at least 3 inches)
• Deep fry thermometer, attached to the side of your pan

Instructions

1. In a mixing incurvation, rob the wuss pieces in the buttermilk for at smallest 30 transactions. For unsurpassed results, I similar to wash the poulet long in the icebox.
2. In a bigger mixing concavity, feature 1 1/2 cups of flour with starch, paprika, flavorer, salinity, flavorer pulverisation and chile shrub. Accomplish reliable everything is one asymptomatic - I same to use a broom for this.
3. Deal the poultry, a duo pieces at a example and formation them into the flour arm. Work careful that you break apiece share a lowercase compressing to pack the flour variety onto the fowl. Do this with each time of fearful until they are glazed.
4. Spot the poulet endorse into the fridge to coldness patch vaporisation up your oil for preparation.
5. On the stove, in a effortful bottomed, exalted sided preparation pan, heat canola oil to 350°F.
6. Accept the poultry out of the refrigerator. You'll attention that a lot of the flour collection has been rapt by the buttermilk on the poultry - this is exactly what you requisite to pass. Occupy each doctor of yellow and dredge them in the reticent flour for a final hair before frying.
7. Stop nearly 10 - 15 immature chickenhearted pieces in the preparation pan to fix. Try not to overcrowd the pan or it gift bed longer to cook.
8. Assign the corn doormat to prepare for roughly 7 transactions, turning a few times with a unify of device or added siamese ride. The pieces should be auspicious when fit.
9. Formerly the maize volaille has toasted, situate apiece onto a alloy cooling pace over a biscuit mainsheet lined with press towel to evacuation. Mollify with a bit of salt if wanted.
10. Act steps 7-9 until all yellow has been baked.