Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken

Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken. KFC is rolling out a brand new menu item: Smoky Mountain BBQ fried chicken. Although the chicken wasn’t as robust as a traditional barbecue sauce, KFC’s take on the flavor is a definite “I really, really liked the flavor of the chicken strips. It was really similar to a mesquite barbecue potato.

Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken Capture that essence with this spiced chicken breast served alongside “loaded” potato wedges. The resulting flavors are a meal that’ll definitely light. Mesquite wood comes from small, spiky trees of the genus Prosopis, a member of the pea family. You can cook Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken

  1. It’s 3 lb of skinless boneless chicken breast halves (I used breast tenderlines).
  2. It’s 3 of eggs.
  3. Prepare 1 cup of water.
  4. You need 1/2 cup of milk.
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp of salt.
  6. You need 2 tbsp of black pepper.
  7. You need 6 cup of flour.
  8. Prepare 1/4 cup of salt.
  9. You need 5 tsp of black pepper.
  10. It’s 4 tbsp of dry mesquite flavored seasoning mix.
  11. It’s 4 cup of oil; for frying.
  12. Prepare 1 (12 oz) of bottle BBQ sauce (I used spicy BBQ sauce).

Butter, Sour Cream, Cheese, Chives and Bacon Bits. Join Guy Fieri as he visits The Green Mesquite BBQ restaurant in Austin, Texas. Known for their brisket, ribs, scratch-made jambalaya and a variety of sandwiches, Guy is there to try Green Mesquite’s chicken fried steak. Like the BBQ chicken strips you can get at KFC!

Mesquite BBQ Fried Chicken instructions

  1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, water, milk, 2tbs salt and 2tbs pepper- until smooth..
  2. In another large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, 1/4 cup salt, 5tbs pepper and mesquite seasoning. (You can add extra pepper and mesquite seasoning if you want a bit more flavor.).
  3. Fill a large skillet halfway full of cooking oil. Heat to 365°F (180 degrees C)..
  4. Preheat oven to 300°F (150 degrees C)..
  5. Use a fork to pick up one chicken strip at a time, dip it into the egg mixture, then into the flour mixture, back into the egg mixture and into the flour mixture again..
  6. Place coated strips into the hot oil to fry. Don’t over crowd, cook in batches. I usually do two or three at the same time depending on size. Once chicken is browned on one side, flip over and brown the other side..
  7. Place your fried chicken on a cookie sheet. Pour the BBQ sauce over the chicken. You can add a little or alot. I just did a little- spread over the tops..
  8. Bake for 10/15 mins, until the sauce is caramelized onto the chicken..
  9. Doesn’t it smell good? Now eat it!.

Dip chicken strips into sauce one at a time and place on a baking dish that has been sprayed with non stick spray. Place chicken on left side of grill rack. Add additional charcoal to the fire as needed during grilling. I followed recipe exactly, excepted used a Trager grill with Mesquite pellets. A video of the dish being prepared went viral due to the reaction to the number of steps in the recipe as well as the finished product.

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