Fried chicken dippers with chipotle sauce

Fried chicken dippers is awesome

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2hr Small dishes/Sides

Ingredients

chicken

  • 2 small / organic chicken breasts IF you can only find giant mutant chicken breasts, double everything else here
  • 1 egg

dry ingredients

  • 1/4 cup bread crumbs or panko
  • 1/4 (or less?) cup flour
  • 1 tsp fresh ground pepper
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1.5 tsp maldon salt
  • 1 big garlic clove

chipotle Sauce

  • 1/2 small (170g) greek pack
  • 2 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1 tsp chipotle sauce

Directions

sauce

  1. mix sauce ingredients, set aside

prep

  1. Mix dry ingredients in small bowl
  2. Whisk egg in separate bowl
  3. Cut chicken into nugget-size pieces (1”x.75" MAX), clean/remove icky veins and stuff.
  4. warm oil to 350f
  5. while oil is warming, dip chicken in egg, then roll in mix, set aside in plate

when oil is ready

  1. put in chicken pieces 4-5 at at time, so they are not crowded (may take 2-3 rounds to finish it all)
  2. turn once after ~2.5-3 minutes, make sure it’s looking a little brown, not white
  3. remove after second couple minutes (5+ minutes total)
  4. put on paper towels/plate uncovered, or the steam makes them soggyÂ