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You can not mess with my mom’s fried chicken and french fries. PERIOD. It aint happening. Don’t waste your time. Don’t get your feelings hurt. It’s consistently amazing and untouchable. Since Greg and I do not eat a lot of fried foods (I hate the smell in the house for the 3 days following, we sneak and eat more fast food than we should already and I’M TERRIFIED of popping grease, lol) he insisted that my mom make this for his birthday. So after we spent the afternoon at Zoinks (a neighborhood kids playhouse) we came home and she prepared that for us. I tried to pick her brain as much as possible because she is so modest about it and doesn’t think it’s a big deal but I’ve seen people come from great distances JUST for this meal. Here are the tips for perfect fried chicken according to Big Zina:

1. Use fresh chicken. (She buys whole chickens from Publix and have them cut it while she’s in the store)

2. Clean your chicken thoroughly. I watched her go under the thigh skin with a knife removing excess fat, and she even removed some fat from the wings. I used to think those were the one pieces I DIDN’T have to clean, lol.

3. For crispy skin, pat chicken dry before seasoning and flouring.

4. Season your meat - Lawry’s Seasoning Salt (or Adobo Seasoning, or All Seasoning), Black Pepper and Garlic Salt. 

5. Toss chicken in all purpose flour, shake excess off.  

6. Use a heavy bottom pot to prevent the chicken from burning.

7. Use fresh grease. Her preference is Wesson’s Vegetable Oil.

8. There needs to be enough grease for the food to float so you can know when it’s done (She put one whole 48 oz bottle the pot). 

FOR THE FRENCH FRIES:

Same applies as far as the grease specifications.

She used 1 potato per person, and cut them fresh herself. Unbeatable taste in those fresh fries.

Season with salt immediately after removing from grease.