Easy fried chicken recipe, Childrens recipes, Home made noodles

I am going to share an easy fried chicken recipe with you. My family came to the farm yesterday for dinner. I wanted a family dinner menu but also childrens recipes. Although the children are very easy to please when it comes to food, I thought they would especially like fried chicken. My children always loved home made noodles so I decided to add those to the menu. (You could use dry or frozen noodles from the grocery store to make even easier.) Little Isaac, the two year old loves green beans and for that reason green beans was the choice vegetable of the day along with a vegetable salad.

Back to the easy fried chicken recipe. As I have shared with you before, when I have company for dinner, I like to prepare as much as possible the day before. Since I needed chicken broth for the noodles, I decided to boil the chicken pieces the day before. As the pieces cooked to the stage of barely done (no blood) I removed them to a colander to drain. The smallest pieces were first to finish cooking. After all the chicken was cooked, I set the broth aside to cool. I then seasoned flour with salt, pepper, sage, and a little garlic powder. I dipped each piece of the cooked chicken in the seasoned flour and placed it in single layers on clean trays. After covering, I placed the trays in the refrigerator for overnight. When I finished prepping the chicken, I refrigerated the broth.

Yesterday morning, about ninety minutes before dinner, I heated up the grease to deep fry the chicken. I used lard because I had excess, but you can use cooking oil. After removing the trays of chicken from the refrigerator, I dipped the pieces in a buttermilk and egg mixture, then rolled the pieces again in the seasoned flour mixture (I added cornstarch to the flour mixture to make the crust nice and crispy.) I then carefully dropped only enough chicken pieces into the hot grease so as not to crowd them up. When the crust was a nice deep colored brown, I removed the pieces to a platter to drain on paper towels. Have you ever made a fried chicken recipe and the inside was still bloody and the outside almost burnt? Have you ever asked a friend how to cook fried chicken to avoid a situation like this and got no answer. Well this easy fried chicken recipe will prevent that from happening. The inside will be done but also very juicy while the outside is a crispy brown. Just multiply the chicken and other ingredients when cooking for a large crowd. It works well because it is prepared ahead and takes less time to cook before serving.

Another note worth mentioning is about the chicken broth. Because it was refrigerated overnight, I placed paper towels over the top while still cold. When I lifted the paper towels off, the fat was removed with the towels. Only a nice chicken broth remained in the bowl. When I heated the broth to add the home made noodles, there was no fat in them.

I chose not to make a dessert for the family dinner menu but decided to serve the children ice cream cones later in the afternoon; adults received bowls of ice cream. There are so many easy dessert recipes that you could use to replace the ice cream. Below is one of my favorites so give it a try. It will go well with this all American meal.

DUMP CAKE RECIPE

• 1 Large can crushed pineapple, drained


• 1 Pound can prepared cherry pie filling


• 1 Box yellow cake mix


• 1 Cup chopped pecans


• 1 Cup butter

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Grease a ONE piece tube pan or a solid deep cake pan. Place the pineapple in the bottom of the pan. Cover the pineapple with the pie filling. Sprinkle the dry cake mix over top of the pie filling. Then sprinkle the nuts over top of the cake mix. Cut the butter in little pieces and sprinkle the little pieces over top of the nuts. Bake in the oven for one hour. This dessert can be served warm or cold. Spoon into bowls and could add a dollop of whipped cream to serve.

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