On Wings Of Victory: Buffalo 0 Barcelona 3
- 12-16 chicken wings
- 1 cup fine unseasoned bread crumbs
- 1 cup superfine flour (Wondra)
- 2 tablespoons pimenton ahumado (smoked Spanish "paprika")
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup Creme fraiche
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- 6 ounces Valdeon or Cabrales cheese
- Up to five garlic cloves cut into slivers
- Extra virgin olive oil (Spanish preferred)
- Piri Piri (Portuguese hot sauce) or Tabasco
- Carrot sticks
- 2 Red bell peppers
- Cantimpalitos (16 oz package), $8.60 www.donajuana.com
- European style beer, Stella or Moretti etc.
- Make the dressing. Add creme fraiche (or sour cream) into the bowl of a small food processor. Crumble in the cheese. Add the chopped chives and pulse. Gradually add the buttermilk until you are satisfied with texture it should resemble ranch dressing. Chill in the refrigerator while you are cooking the wings.
- L. Messi 15" PT
- Cut the tops from your peppers, spoon out the seeds. Cut out the veins and cut into narrow strips. Cut carrots into sticks. The colors are intended to symbolize the Catalan flag.
- Set up your fry station. In a pie pan combine the flour with the pimenton. Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk them. In another pie pan put out the bread crumbs.
- Heat about 1/2 inch of oil in a cazuela until it begins to shimmer. Dredge the wings first in the flour and pimenton mix, dip in the egg bath and finally in the bread crumbs. Without crowding the casserole fry up the wings in batches along with garlic.
- Xavy 40" PT
- Meanwhile heat up beer in another cazuela (or non-reactive pan) and poach the cantimpalitos which you've separated into individual links.
- When the wings are cooked and crispy golden hit the wings with a dash of piri piri (to your taste) and drain on a rack or paper towel. Season with fleur de sel.
- Present with the carrots and four pepper strips (the number of stripes on the flag) per plate. Sausages and sauce to the side. Napkins.
- L. Messi 90" ST
- Notes to cook: Valdeon and Cabrales are very strong cheeses, but Barca is a team built on strength and skill. Should you happen to see cantimpalitos on a restaurant menu the odds are 95% that they were packed at the La Espanola plant in Harbor City. The Spanish don't mind if the garlic gets a little overbrowned. It's there to flavor the oil.
chicken, bread crumbs, flour, ahumado, eggs, crueme fraiche, buttermilk, chives, cabrales cheese, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, carrot, red bell peppers, european style beer
Taken from food52.com/recipes/6838-on-wings-of-victory-buffalo-0-barcelona-3 (may not work)