I had so much fun playing with Frida Kahlo’s recipe for Double-Fried Chicken and Nut Sauce for Yahoo Food that I couldn’t help tweak it to my liking. Here’s what I came up with:
Frida Kahlo’s Double-Fried Chicken
Sweet and Spicy Peanut sauce
Herbed Fritters
Adapted from Frida’s Fiestas
Servings: 8
This is not a quick weeknight meal. There are three major steps: Making the sauce, frying the chicken the first time, and then frying it the second. Unless you relish long and arduous cooking, I say break it up: Make the sauce in advance, as much as a day or two. Round one of frying can be done ahead of time if you like, though you may sacrifice some crispness. As you near the second frying time, warm the sauce on the stove, but keep in mind that the white peanut sauce will darken from snowy white to beige if you heat it for very long. Continue reading “BONUS: Updated Double-Fried Chicken, Sweet-Hot Peanut Sauce and Herbed Fritters”