Viener Backhendl: Fried Chicken
- 1 (2 1/2 pound) chickens
- Salt and pepper
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 2 cups flour
- 3 eggs
- 4 cups panko or bread crumbs
- 1 cup parsley leaves
- 2 lemons
- Cut each chicken into 8 pieces.
- Remove the skin but not the bones.
- Season generously with salt and pepper.
- Heat vegetable oil to 300 degrees F. On 3 separate soup plates, put the flour, eggs and bread crumbs, and dip all chicken pieces first in flour, then eggs, and finally bread crumbs.
- Shake off excess crumbs.
- Fry chicken pieces for about 12 to 14 minutes until nice and brown.
- Drain on paper towels.
- Fry the parsley for about 30 seconds.
- Remove, drain on paper towels, and sprinkle over chicken.
- Divide onto 4 plates.
- Sprinkle with parsley and serve with half a lemon.
chickens, salt, vegetable oil, flour, eggs, bread crumbs, parsley, lemons
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/viener-backhendl-fried-chicken-recipe.html (may not work)