Max's Style Fried Chicken

Ingredients: 

• 5 cloves garlic

• 1 white onion

• 1 inch ginger, peeled 

• 8 pcs. tanglad 

• ½ cup chicken stock 

• Salt and pepper to taste 

• 1 pc. Spring chicken

• 2 tbsps. rum

• 2 tbsps. patis

• 2 tbsps. Spring onion, chopped

• Cooking oil enough to submerge whole chicken

Procedure: 

• Blend together garlic, white onion, ginger, tanglad stalks (reserve leaves for stuffing and steaming) and chicken stock. 

• Rub the chicken all over with a generous amount of the rub mixture, salt and pepper.

• Stuff the chicken with 4 pcs bundled tanglad leaves. 

• Mix together rum and patis. Brush chicken with this mixture. 

• Add the remaining bundled tanglad leaves in the steaming water. 

• Put the chicken in the steamer and top with spring onions. Cover and steam for 30 minutes. 

• Once cooked, drain excess liquid from chicken and remove tanglad leaves. 

• Heat up oil enough to submerge the whole chicken. Once the oil is hot enough, drop the chicken and deep-fry for 10 minutes. 

• Serve with Worcestershire sauce and banana ketchup.

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If you are preparing any kind of meals from a recipe, it's important that you understand the various methods of cooking. There are a number of terms for different ways of cooking, as follow.

Grilled

If a recipe calls for something to be grilled, it generally means it should be cooked over an open flame or heat. Grilling can be done by charcoal or gas - on a barbeque for example - or it can be done using a grill of some sort on the burners of your stove.

Broiled

Broiling indicates cooking by exposing directly to a heat source such as a flame or element. Most ovens have a "broil" setting, which heats an element at the top of the stove rather than the one at the bottom, which is used for baking.

When broiling items in the oven, they should normally be placed on the top rack to give them the proper heat exposure.

Frying vs Deep Frying

Both frying and deep-frying cook foods with a similar process, but the method is a little different in each case. Frying can be done over any heat source, such as a stove element or an open flame. Oil or butter is heated and the food is cooked by its heat.

Deep frying, on the other hand, also involves oil but in this case the food is completely submerged in the oil. Deep frying is used for foods such as french fries, breaded chicken and doughnuts. It can be dangerious, however, because you're dealing with boiling oil so proper equipment and safety precautions must be used.

Sauteing

Sauteing involved cooking food quickly in a small amount of fat. It is similar in process to frying, but because of the smaller amount of fat and faster cooking times, it brings out stronger flavors than frying will.

Knowing what is involved with the various terms will make it easier to plan when following a recipe. You'll know what equipment and ingredients you'll need that are unique to each method.