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[Vivisectus]

Southern Fried Chicken and Gravy!

I saw the picture of it the other week, and now I want some! Also, what do you serve it with? Please to provide lots of detail.

Apart from that I will use this as the Request a Recipe from Funny Forn Folk thread.

[BrotherMan]

I don't have a recipe for fried chicken or gravy, but I can point you at some sides.

But first, I have to say, it really depends on how crazy you want to get. Also, since it's chicken damn near anything goes with it.

• Cornbread
• Biscuits (I'll be ignorant here, American/Southern style biscuits, I'm not sure if it's the same here as it is on that side of the pond)
• Corn on the cob
• Mashed potatoes (since you're making gravy, it all goes together)
• Succotash (corn, carrots, lima beans, maybe pearl onions) (wiki: In some parts of the American South, any mixture of vegetables prepared with lima beans and topped with lard or butter is called succotash.)
• Lima beans
• Red beans and rice
• Pinto beans
• Green beans
• Collard greens
• Creamed spinach
• Sweet potatoes (baked, mashed or french fried)
• Cole slaw

And this is not an exhaustive list. I did leave one item off on purpose because you hates them.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I can't help you on the fried chicken aspect, but the gravy:

Cook up some breakfast sausage. Remove from pan, crumble some of it. Make a roux with the leftover grease and flour. Add milk and whisk until it thickens. Salt & pepper, add in some of the sausage.

[lisarea]

If you haven't had fried chicken before, you might not be aware that 'chicken,' in this case, is a bastardized term for chick peas, and not actually chicken. As a nod to the terminology, though, many American cooks form the fritters into chicken-shaped pieces.

[BrotherMan]

Just for that, pea, I'ma punish you.

Pan Fried Chicken-Food Network - YouTube

Mr Sectus: You can skip to about 4:30 and the chef WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED gives you the TLW version. Here's what's important: Cast Iron Skillet.

[erimir]

Wasn't the picture in the other thread chicken fried steak?

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by BrotherMan

TLW

HAHAHAHAHAHA ACCIDENTAL SMILEY BORT.

That's what you get for watching Alton Brown, who sucks: You get trolled.

Don't believe him. "Fried chicken" is chickpea fritters.

Another thing a lot of non-Americans aren't aware of is that fried chicken is finger-food sized. You almost never see pictures of fried chicken next to anything else because that would destroy the illusion of the 'chicken' shape, but a piece of fried chicken is generally about the size of a silver dollar (or a dubloon or whatever your comparable coin is).

[Ymir's blood]

Bort's list fails to include Fried Tater Wedges, and is thus devoid of meaning.

[Qingdai]

"Jo-jos"?
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/jo-jo-potatoes/

This is the only recipe I can think of that's a native Oregon sort of food, pre-foodie culture.

[Ymir's blood]

That's probably the same thing with different spices and a slightly different shape. The local ones are usually cross sections lengthwise of the potato. We don't use those frou-frou names though.

[Qingdai]

I'm making something that would go well with fried chicken, or chicken fried steak tonight.

Rhubarb crisp.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Rhubarb-Crisp/Print

[Ymir's blood]

It's quick, and easier to make than pie.

[BrotherMan]

Sorry, Qingdai, but the best possible thing to go with Chicken Fried [Meat] is objectively Peach Cobbler. Of course you wouldn't like it because it's a lot like a square pie.

[Qingdai]

Peach cobbler explains how come diabetes is so prevalent in the south, Paula Deen I'm looking at you.

[Vivisectus]

...so how do you cook the damn chicken?

[BrotherMan]

• Heat ~1/2" of oil in a skillet to ~350°F
• Season the raw chicken parts as you please (salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika, etc)
• Dredge in flour
• Place chicken in the skillet, allow this side to cook to a golden brown then flip once and allow the other side to cook to to a golden brown, depending on size of the chicken about 12 minutes
• Remove from pan and allow to rest and drain

[vremya]

This thrad has made me really hungry! Who's going to come over and cook me some chicken?

[Dingfod]

Chicken-fried chicken stuffed with chickpeas eaten in Chichen Itza or Chechnya, whichever. Yum.