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Some people say that although we will distinguish each other by nationality, our love for fried chicken makes us one. Who can’t love fried chicken with crispy outside and tender inside, and juice flowing out while dropping slag?
When it comes to fried chicken, many people immediately think of American fried chicken, Korean fried chicken and Japanese fried chicken … In fact, there are many other types of fried chicken.
Fried chicken pexels
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America
/The birthplace of fried chicken that we often eat/
Fried chicken, the earliest historical source can be traced back to Scotland, and then swept the world in the United States.
The record of fried chicken first appeared in the English menu in 1747, and was called "pickled chicken". Unlike fried chicken now, fried chicken was fried in a frying pan with lard. Later, fried chicken was brought to America by Scottish immigrants.
There is no fire in fried chicken when it first entered the United States. It was not until black people from Africa improved fried chicken with their cooking methods, and it gradually became popular because of its advantages such as easy storage and easy carrying when traveling. By the 20th century, with the continuous expansion of chain fast food restaurants such as KFC, the influence of fried chicken reached the whole world.
Chain fast food restaurants make fried chicken popular all over the world
In America, there are many kinds of fried chicken.
American fried chicken
American southern fried chicken is generally called American fried chicken. When I talk about it, grandpa KFC spins and jumps in his mind. KFC, the full name of Kentucky fried chicken, expresses its preference for fried chicken naked from the name.
American fried chicken often cuts chicken into small pieces, such as chicken breast, chicken wings, wing roots, chicken calves, etc., and wraps it with a mixed flour coat mixed with flour (or bread crumbs) in a certain proportion, such as salt, black pepper, Chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, eggs or milk, and puts it in a pan for frying. In the frying process, the juice oozing from chicken is perfectly absorbed by the outer flour coat, forming a rich and crisp taste.
Wrapped in a face coat and fried with worms.
There are three common frying methods of American fried chicken: pan frying, frying and baking (a combination of frying and baking).
The difference between them is that frying oil in a pan is most suitable for families, and the amount of oil does not need to be covered with fried chicken. After frying, turn over and continue; Frying needs to cover the deep oil of fried chicken and fry at high temperature; Baking is to steam the soft chicken in a pressure cooker at low temperature and then fry it at high temperature to form a crispy skin.
Creative idea of frying fried chicken
Perhaps it is precisely because of the wild characteristics of American fried chicken, which is not pickled chicken, and is seasoned entirely by surface clothes. Compared with other fried chicken, when the skin is separated, it always feels that its meat has less flavor. However, after the improvement of American fried chicken in chain stores like KFC, it seems that the pickling process has been added.
Chicken is almost tasteless.
Buffalo wings
If American fried chicken is more common in fast food chain stores like KFC, Buffalo wings, another kind of fried chicken in the United States, are more common in craft pubs or western restaurants.
Buffalo chicken wings are also translated into Buffalo chicken wings in some places. Different from American fried chicken, although it is also fried chicken, Buffalo chicken wings generally only choose the position of the middle or the root of the wings, and fried chicken generally has no bread crumbs, flour and other clothes, but only a naked chicken wing, so in addition to the traditional frying method, it will also be cooked by baking or roasting.
Buffalo Chicken Wings, Toxoplasma Creativity
However, if you ask if there is any way to directly distinguish American fried chicken from Buffalo chicken wings, it is really possible to do it at a glance.
If this plate of fried chicken is served not only with a thick layer of maroon sauce but also with root vegetables, it is probably Buffalo wings. Buffalo chicken wings are often wrapped in a layer of cayenne pepper-based hot sauce on fried chicken, and then served with celery sticks or carrot sticks with Rancho cheese sauce or ranch salad sauce (common in other cities except new york).
Buffalo Chicken Wings, Toxoplasma Creativity
As far as I can remember, Buffalo chicken wings always give people a smoky feeling, and they can smell the smell of fireworks baking. The whole fried chicken tastes spicy but not spicy. I don’t know whether it comes from its practice or the hot sauce, and with celery sticks or carrots, I always feel much healthier than eating American fried chicken!
Buffalo Chicken Wings, Toxoplasma Creativity
In the United States, there are not only these two kinds of fried chicken, but also Nashville spicy chicken in Tennessee. This kind of fried chicken can choose different spicy degrees, which can be mild or suspicious of life, and can also be sandwiched with pickles into bread to make fried chicken sandwiches. Of course, according to Americans’ love for fried chicken, fried chicken sandwiches are definitely not enough, as well as fried chicken waffles made with American fried chicken.
Fried Chicken Hamburger Bituchong Creativity
Looking at the whole America, Jamaican fried chicken in Jamaica; Brazilian fried chicken marinated and fried with dill seeds, rapeseed, turmeric and lemon juice are all flavor fried chicken worth trying.
02
Asia
/Let a hundred flowers blossom/
Although America can be regarded as the source of fried chicken, it must be said that when fried chicken came to Asia, it was prosperous in all directions.
Korean fried chicken
Sweet and spicy taste with crispy fried chicken, and a sip of beer. Korean fried chicken seems to have swept the audience overnight. In recent years, in the United States, there is even a faint momentum of overtaking American fried chicken.
Similar to American fried chicken, war also played an important role in the history of Korean fried chicken. In the 1940s and 1950s, the US military stationed in South Korea replaced the turkey that was hard to find locally with fried chicken on Thanksgiving Day, and shared it with the local people, so fried chicken began to enter South Korea. However, because of the oil price and other reasons, it was not until 1977 that Korean fried chicken began to take shape and became popular in South Korea.
Korean-style fried chicken Tuchong creativity
Although they are all fried chicken, and they are fried chicken handed down from the United States, Korean fried chicken and American fried chicken are quite different.
Korean fried chicken, like American fried chicken, does not marinate chicken, but its taste is different. Compared with American fried chicken, Korean fried chicken is more crisp and light, because potato starch is used instead of flour in the noodle coat of Korean fried chicken, and the taste of fried chicken is enriched by re-frying. In addition, Korean fried chicken can also choose to be boneless or boneless.
Korean-style fried chicken Tuchong creativity
What makes Korean fried chicken more unique is its choice of sauces. The original flavor of chicken, the sweet and spicy flavor with sauce, the garlic sauce flavor, the seaweed flavor with powder, the cheese flavor, etc., with the Korean-style pink pickled radish, every time you order Korean fried chicken, you have to hesitate for a few minutes until the final taste choice.
Korean-style fried chicken Tuchong creativity
Japanese fried chicken
Japan and South Korea are not far apart, and they also have their own special fried chicken, Tangyang chicken nuggets and Nanman fried chicken.
Japanese Tangyang chicken nuggets, which first appeared in the Edo period, were called "Kongyang". At first, it refers to the method of frying small pieces of tofu from China. Later, it began to dabble in vegetables, fish and other categories, but the most important thing was fried chicken.
Tangyang Chicken Cuttleworm Creativity
Compared with other fried chicken, Tangyang chicken nuggets are lighter and thinner, and the materials are no longer limited to flour, but can be rice flour, corn flour and so on. Chicken nuggets are boneless drumsticks or wing roots. Cut into small pieces, marinate in salt, black pepper, sake or miso for about 20 minutes, and then wrap the top coat and fry in an oil pan.
Compared with other fried chicken, Tangyang chicken nuggets will taste more tender and juicy, except for the curing method, which may be related to its selection of young chickens as raw materials. In restaurants, Tangyang chicken nuggets are usually combined with cabbage, but in convenience stores, such as Rosen’s, 711’s and Quanjia’s, they can also be sold separately.
Tangyang Chicken Cuttleworm Creativity
Different from Tangyang chicken nuggets, Nanman chicken nuggets, which inherit the western tradition, are a little rough. "Nan Man" is the Japanese name for westerners from the Warring States to the early Meiji period. This Nanman chicken nugget was born in Miyazaki, Japan, and it is a famous local dish in Miyazaki area.
The original prototype of this fried chicken is Spanish cuisine escabeche, which is made by pickling fried meat and fish. After entering Miyazaki, Japan, it forms a unique Nanman stain in Miyazaki, Japan. The method is similar, but the taste is lighter and sweeter.
Nanman fried chicken can be regarded as a kind of Nanman stain. After the chicken is wrapped in flour and fried, it is poured with sweet vinegar juice and Tata sauce. So compared with other fried chicken, Nanman chicken nuggets are characterized by this sweet and sour sauce and Tata sauce.
Nanman Chicken Cuttleworm Creativity
Chinese fried chicken
In China, fried chicken is not to be outdone.
In Beijing’s streets and take-away platforms, a kind of fried chicken called "Old Beijing American Fried Chicken" is active. Its representative stores include Yongshun fried chicken and Zuojiazhuang fried chicken. This fried chicken is a childhood memory of many Beijing children.
Yongshun fried chicken shop, shoot hedgehog
Since it has won the name of old Beijing, if nothing else, it has been localized from seasoning alone. The application of cumin and Chili powder in fried chicken brought the exotic fried chicken back to the familiar taste field.
Add water such as monosodium glutamate, salt, pepper, nutmeg, garlic, etc. into the chicken nuggets and marinate them for one night. The next day, wrap them with a mixture of starch, baking soda and flour (the thickness of the powder is related to the personal skills of the store), and then fry them at high temperature. The fried chicken with oily luster emits fragrance in the air.
Compared with other types of fried chicken, this kind of old fried chicken on the roadside seems to be more free and easy and smoky.
Zuojiazhuang fried chicken wikipedia/N509FZ
What is common on the roadside is not only the old Beijing American fried chicken, but also the tears of the times-Taiwan salted chicken. At one time, it was a shoulder pole at the school gate.
Taiwan’s salted chicken originated from the American popcorn, but on the basis of the popcorn, there are more flavors of salt and pepper, garlic and nine-story tower.
The creativity of salted chicken with worms.
As for other parts of Asia, there are also scattered different types of fried chicken, such as fried chicken from Indonesia and Malaysia, which often appears in restaurants or family gatherings. It is a kind of fried chicken pickled with galangal, small red onion and turmeric powder.
Java fried chicken wikipedia/D.W. Fisher-Freberg
03
Europe
/Have your own style/
Strange to say, although Britain was the first country to have the embryonic form of fried chicken, it is not found in Europe and countries with fried chicken characteristics now. What British people often eat is American fried chicken. On the contrary, Austria, Germany and Italy have developed their own fried chicken styles.
There is a kind of Vienna fried chicken in Austria, which clearly States that bread crumbs are used as a noodle coat, which is eaten with lemon after deep frying. At the earliest, only the nobles in Vienna could eat it.
Vienna fried chicken tuanchong creativity
Chicken schnitzel is popular in Austria, Germany and Israel. Its most common form is fried chicken breast, but in fact, the earliest dish was made of beef or pork. Later, Jews in Europe changed the raw materials into chicken or turkey to meet their dietary needs. When it went south to Italy, it evolved into fried chicken with Italian style, with spices such as rosemary added, and Parmesan cheese was added to the noodle fried powder.
Italian fried chicken cutlet, Tuchong creativity
Looking at so many fried chicken around the world, I suddenly found that when I don’t know what to eat when I travel in the future, choosing fried chicken may be the best way to try local cuisine without stepping on the thunder!
Order fried chicken now!
Original title: "Chinese, Korean, Japanese and American fried chicken, which one do you choose? 》
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