Red stripe lemon paradise fried chicken

original post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2015/11/red-stripe-lemon-paradise-fried-chicken.html

Ingredients:

10- 13 pieces CB drumsticks

2 cups flour

2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoon onion powder

½ teaspoon black pepper

Oil for frying

2 extra bottles of beer

Marinade

1 tablespoon oil

1 onion

1 ½ teaspoons alt

½ cup red stripe lemon beer

1 ½ oz ginger

1 oz lime or lemon zest

1 tablespoon allspice

2 tablespoon honey

Instructions:

    • In a blender mix all the ingredients for the marinade, oil, onion, salt, beer, ginger, allspice and honey
    • Submerge clean drumsticks skin on into the marinade and leave it to soak over night
    • Heat oil on medium high heat
    • In a shallow dish combine flour, salt, onion powder and black pepper
    • In a bowl pour the contents of the bottle of beer
    • Remove chicken from the marinade and dredge in flour, remove the excess then dip into the beer then back into the flour
    • After the chicken has been floured twice place it in the hot oil and fry for approximately 15 minutes in a deep fryer
    • If shallow frying turn after 7 to 8 minutes
    • The chicken is finished when the internal temperatures reach anything above 165/ 170 degrees
    • While the chickens are frying take the second bottle of beer and pour into a sauce pan reduce to a thick sauce, do not allow it to reduce too much or else it will become too hard and sticky like a toffee

Greedy tips:

    • You really have to watch the beer as it reduces it goes from 0 to 100 quicker than Drake. So let’s not waste bottles of beers like I did :)