Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Yummy Primal Fried Chicken

I've been scraping together random bits and pieces; eating mostly fried eggs at night since it was 'easy' and I didn't have enough ingredients to make anything else.

However, tonight I cooked my first proper primal recipe. The recipe I tried was from the free primal reader-created cookbook from Mark's Daily Apple: Crispy Nut and Herb Fried Chicken with Creamy Avocado (pg. 52). I used all four nuts pictured: almonds, walnuts, macadamia, and pecans. I also chose rosemary as my herb and only 1 egg since I was making just one portion.


Instead of chicken breast I used a chicken leg (the only thing I had defrosted!). First time making this recipe, first time making fried chicken, first time working with chicken leg... the only thing I felt was hard was getting the timing of cooked meet in balance with a too crispy coating.

In the end, served with a quarter of an avocado (3 slices) and it tasted amazing even if just slightly burnt.

I used FitDay.com to estimate the nutritional values of this dish. Everything is estimated, so (disclaimer) may not be completely accurate!

A few berries for desert to top it off. Yummy! Happy belly!

UPDATE (10/Jan/12): After many more attempts at making this (it's my new favourite) I've found the best way to make this without burning is to use chicken breast and flatten it with a mallet like chicken schnitzel. Then proceed with recipe instructions as normal.