Double Crunch Fried Chicken Tacos
Crunchy Fried Chicken becomes the SHELL for these game-changing tacos ?? (Incredible, Chef Stuart O'Keeffe!)
Author: The Chef
Cuisine: American
Recipe type: Main dish
Ingredients
- 4 small chicken breasts
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 2 cups cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons seafood boil seasoning, such as Old Bay
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3 large eggs
- 4 hard taco shells
- 3 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 3 tablespoons hot sauce
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 avocado, sliced
Instructions
- Special equipment: a deep-frying thermometer
- Slice horizontally into a chicken breast three-quarters of the way through, then open up like a book. Cover with plastic wrap and pound chicken breast until it is ½-inch thick. Repeat with remaining chicken.
- Heat about 4 inches of oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven until the oil reaches 360 degrees F.
- Meanwhile, mix cornstarch, seafood seasoning and salt together in a bowl. Whisk eggs in another bowl.
- Dip a piece of chicken in the cornstarch, then eggs, then cornstarch, then eggs and finally in cornstarch again.
- Wrap the chicken around a hard taco shell (to resemble a taco) and hold in place gently with a pair of tongs. Lower the chicken into the hot oil and hold for about 45 seconds before releasing on its side. Cook for 3 minutes, then flip to the other side and cook 3 minutes more. Place on a wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining chicken breasts and taco shells. (See Cook's Note.)
- Combine cabbage, carrots, hot sauce and mayo in a bowl. Place a heaping tablespoon of slaw in the base of each chicken taco shell, then top with cherry tomatoes and avocado. Enjoy.
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Double Crunch Fried Chicken Tacos
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Posted by Food Network on Saturday, October 13, 2018
