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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen's podcast today and you know
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uh Phil and I were talking and we
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thought you know sometimes when you're
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shooting positively Paula you're kind of
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rushed and you don't get everything said
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that you want to get said so we thought
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today would be a great opportunity to go
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over some of the entrees that I prepared
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and we'll walk through them slowly and
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like I said I'm hoping that if I forgot
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anything that I'll remember to share
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that with you too so today we're gonna
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be talking about my fried chicken you
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know I don't know of one southerner that
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doesn't love fried chicken
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and there is an art to frying chicken at
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home you know it's a little bit of a
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challenge but you can do it you can do
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it and I'm gonna share with y'all some
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of the things that my mother told me one
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of one of the first things when you're
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selecting your chicken is to buy a small
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chicken your small chickens are more
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tender and more flavorful than the old
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birds and you know I have found today I
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really have to go out and hunt very very
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hard to find a two or two-and-a-half
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pound chicken they're feeding them
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something that causes those chickens to
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get so big so quick and a small chicken
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to this day is still the best my mother
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always said Paula don't go bigger than a
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two and a half pound chicken that's a
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tall order for today but these breasts
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are so big look they're the size of my
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face that's a breast so I like to buy
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like a two and a half pound bird that's
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the perfect size and my grandmother Paul
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taught me that when I'm gonna have fried
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chicken for dinner that morning I should
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take my chicken cut it up unless you
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have bought it in pieces
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season it and put it back in the
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refrigerator and let it have that day to
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drink up the seasonings that you put on
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this so grandma always taught me I've
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said it a hundred times when I was
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having chicken for dinner pollen season
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your chicken that morning honey
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put it in the refrigerator so it can
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just drink up all those seasonings that
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you put on it now when you're ready to
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start your supper you'll want to take
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your chicken out and let it sit on the
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counter you know maybe for an hour it'll
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you want to just let some of that chill
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get off your chicken because we're gonna
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be frying this and we're gonna be
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putting it in hot grease and we don't
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want our temperature to fall any more
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know I like to take my chicken out and
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let it sit on the counter for about 45
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minutes to an hour I like to kind of
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bring it down to room temperature
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because when we add it to our hot oil if
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it's ice-cold it's gonna drop that
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temperature and that could really give
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so just remember that tip but you'll
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find that that will really give you a
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nicer fried chicken if you'll do that
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now at the lady in sons and at home when
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I'm cooking chicken I will take say if
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I'm frying one chicken y'all I'll take
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maybe two eggs and a half a cup of Paula
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Deen hot sauce if you don't have Paula
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Deen hot sauce then a good Louisiana Hot
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Sauce will will certainly be okay and
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you beat that with your two eggs and and
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you know maybe 1/4 of a cup of water you
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beat that up real good and then you let
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your chicken kind of soak in that and
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you can leave it for 30 seconds or 30
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minutes it's it's really not a problem
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I've got three eggs three beaten eggs a
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little water and now I'm gonna add a cup
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of my hot sauce and I know right now
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you're probably saying whoa whoa aah
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that's gonna be so hot we can't eat it
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but it's really not you don't have any
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of the heat but just the flavor that's
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all you're gonna have so we're gonna
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dunk our chicken and I really like if I
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have time y'all I like to go ahead and
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put this in the refrigerator and let
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this sit for a couple of hours we've got
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our Dutch oven or our deep fryer
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whatever we're using the fryer chicken
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in we want to fill it like 3/4 of the
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way full with peanut oil now I reckon
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man peanut all because it gives chicken
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such a wonderful flavor but it has the
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highest resistance to burning like a
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if you're using a vegetable or are
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a solid shortening that's gonna burn
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easier than the peanut oil will so we
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want to bring that to 350 degrees
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and that's important that's important
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that you have a way to gauge the
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temperature of your peanut oil so we're
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gonna shake shake the egg mixture off of
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our chicken and we're gonna roll it in
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self-rising flour and I always add some
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extra pepper to my flour cuz mikey likes
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black pepper fried chicken so then I
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roll my pieces in that in that flour
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mixture y'all and then you'll want to
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start by adding your dark pieces first
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your dark pieces would be the legs and
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the thighs and the back if you cut your
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back out so we want to drop those first
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because those are gonna take longer to
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cook your breast and your wing your Puli
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bone all those are white meat and
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they're not gonna take us long to cook
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so drop the dark meat first and then let
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that cook for a couple of minutes and
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then drop your white pieces and you'll
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not want to crowd your pan too too much
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I do like a full pan somehow a full pan
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of chicken will fry better than just two
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or three pieces so all your all eight
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pieces of chicken should fit nicely in
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your Dutch oven which is a piece about
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that tall about that big around so it
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should fit nicely and we're going to
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cook the white pieces too for about 12
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minutes and the thicker thighs and and
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legs we're going to cook for about 14
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minutes so I'm giving you those times
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but you would have to be the true judge
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of this because my chicken may be bigger
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than your chicken or your chicken may be
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bigger than my chicken so you'll have to
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make those adjustments yourself
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so we are almost there kitty I think
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I'd say it's been in there a good 14
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but I'm just gonna let this cook and I
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kind of got a mess here y'all so I'm
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gonna be cleaning this up and then I
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think that needs to try oh my settle
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lips what you think see if my lips fit
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that leg but I hope this little short
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podcast will take you on the way to
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Fried Chicken like your family will say
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nobody fries chicken like my mama I hope
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that happens the space that you live in
9:43
really affects the way you feel so my
9:46
first recommendation is start by
9:49
updating your window treatments with
9:52
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
9:54
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
9:57
custom made just for you and they offer
9:59
different service options to fit your
10:02
needs to get started today contact Smith
10:05
& Noble to get my special limited time
10:07
offer 25% off on your window treatments
10:11
plus free design consultation create a
10:14
space that you're gonna love but details
10:18
about my special offer
10:20
go to Smith & noble.com slash Paula that
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Smith & noble.com slash Paula or call
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one eight hundred six five nine 3300
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that's one eight hundred six five nine
