With outstanding recipes and a growing fan base, Golden Fried Chicken locations began popping up all over Central Texas. Very quickly, the familiar golden awnings of Golden Fried Chicken were a beloved site in small and mid-sized towns across Texas. From #1 San Marcos to #2 New Braunfels to #3 Georgetown, and so on, many of the original Golden Fried Chick locations still exist across central Texas.
Golden Bird Chicken Batter Recipe
At first bite, we were super disappointed. The chicken was very mediocre. The meat was incredibly dry compared to the others, and the breading was thin and tasteless. Although the batter did have some flavor, the chicken was hard and lacked the flaky crunch the others had.
Everyone agrees brining is important. The process involves soaking raw meat in a salt water solution overnight. Brining can mean the difference between a dry, flavorless chicken or a supremely moist, piquant bird. The brine at Whistle Britches, for example, mimics the flavor of a dill pickle.
This process is called dredging and battering, and it's what gives fried chicken that crispy outer shell. And while the batter is critical for texture and flavor, Lopez-Alt said it has an even more important purpose.
"We dredge because we want to create an insulating layer between the food and the oil. Oil is very hot, as it gets hotter and hotter, muscle proteins contract and they squeeze out moisture and your chicken can end up really dry," he said. "The brunt of that energy is being used to brown that batter, drive off moisture from the batter, and what actually gets in the chicken travels much more slowly."
The Whistle Britches batter is starkly different from the batter at bbbop Seoul Kitchen, where they keep it thin with just a milky mix of flour and water. Chef and co-owner Sandra Bussey said that light coating is what gives Korean fried chicken its signature crunch.
Then comes something called protein coagulation, which is just scientific jargon for the batter turning solid. All the while, through oil absorption, oil seeps into the empty pockets in the chicken where water was cooked off, giving the chicken juice and flavor.
Whether you're at Whistle Britches or bbbop Seoul Kitchen or the countless other chicken joints across North Texas, the science is constant. The recipes are chemistry, physics and thermodynamics. But our love for fried chicken is basic biology.
Cornstarch is one of our recommended ingredients for the crispiest fried chicken. Cornstarch is often used in Asian fried chicken recipes. The combination of the flour with cornstarch produces the crispiest result. You can replace all of the flour with cornstarch, or you can try using a similar non-gluten based flour or flour blend in place of traditional all-purpose flour. 2ff7e9595c
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