How to Cook Fried Chicken a la Jollibee

Hello , my name is Malu Perez .

I'm the creator of the food blog called today .

I'd like to welcome you to my Modern Asian cooking series , which I'm going to share with you how to cook .

One of the most popular dishes in the Philippines called Chicken Joy or Fried Chicken Lay bean .

What is Jolly Bee ?

You may ask for those , you know , non Filipinos choi is the most popular fast food chain in the Philippines .

It's more kind of like mcdonald's of the Philippines .

But the number one food chain there is not mcdonald's though , although we have mcdonald's in our country , but it's jolly .

It's the number one fast food chain as a disclaimer though .

This recipe of mine is not Jolly B's recipe .

Of course , Jolly have they have their special gadgets like their pressure cooker and their special um spices .

But what I'm going to show you today is how to recreate this famous dish that they carry and how to create it at home .

We don't need special ingredients .

All we need are five star spies .

So pepper flour and corn starch , but of course the chicken .

So let's start by mixing our breading our breading composed of , we have corn starch .

I wanna put half a cup of corn starch .

There you go .

And then also half a cup of flour .

So if you want to make more , just remember , one is the 11 cup of lard , one cup of corn starch .

But in this case , we're just making half , half and half .

OK ?

So we have to add two tablespoons full of um 55 spies .

Now , for those of you who are not familiar with this , try doing it with just one tablespoon .

OK ?

So let's mix that together and a little salt and pepper and there you have it .

OK ?

This is critical because I got a letter from one of my readers saying that her chicken turned really dark brown .

We don't wanna do that .

So um as a starter , I said just add just half of the measurement that I put online , just just add um a tablespoon of five spice .

OK ?

So this is how your breading should look like .

So I have here chicken thighs .

Well , you know , we're at home so we could choose what part we like best for me and for my son Joey , he prefers thigh .

So what we wanna do is add a little pepper and then salt .

OK ?

And then um I already added some lime on it , you know , that will bring out the freshness in your chicken and all you have to do is just make sure each part it's coated with those bits of pepper .

And so , so I think we're ready to fry .

We have seasoned our chicken .

We've made our bready and our cooking oil is hot , hot enough that when you Sprinkle water .

Ok , let's have it now .

Way to say it to tell the , the , the cooking oil is .

But don't put a lot of water though .

It's just gonna flopper everywhere .

So I'm going to , uh , teach you how to bread the chicken properly .

OK .

So we wanna coat just lightly coat each piece of chicken inside and out , see inside the skin and outside the skin and then what you want to do is remove the excess flow and then drop it like so OK , make sure to put your fire on medium because you don't want to burn those chicken .

You want them golden crispy , right ?

Yummy , delicious chicken , right ?

So again , let's drop one more and allow you know the temperature to get back to like around 325 .

Again , this spaces off to like 2 to 3 minutes .

So let's bread the chicken again and then remove the excess floor because we want it lightly coated .

We don't want to hide the goodness of this chicken pieces .

Drop one more and you , you don't wanna overcrowd the chicken pieces into the pot .

So three pieces for now is is is good .

This is also one of the critical points .

You have to spear the chicken to make sure that all the parts should be cooked thoroughly or , and evenly .

A lot of people though are scared of frying .

But my only tip for them is that use a bigger pot .

But , you know , for um cost efficiency , I just use , you know , not the biggest , not , not the biggest software that I could have just to , you know , um and serve cooking oil .

Now , in order for us to have that golden crisp delicious chicken , we have to cook it around 7 to 8 minutes , but you could also eyeball it when you see , you know , the skin is already crispy and golden brown .

You can tell that it's already cooked for .

Now we're getting there .

It's only been only four minutes .

So you still have around 3 to 44 minutes to cook it .

A lot of you also , a lot of my readers also are asking how to check whether it's cooked .

You know , they say that they don't have the thermometer and stuff like that .

I would advise you though to buy thermometer to avoid guessing .

But since I've been cooking this for 15 years , I can , you know , kind of tell when it's cooked .

And um my tip is just look at the skin .

If it's golden brown , it's already cooked .

Another tip .

Home cooks out there is when your chicken and ready you have to like let the oil drain .

So what I do , I don't have any racks or anything like that because you know , my objective is for you for to show you that you could do it at home .

Right ?

So what I use is a slotted plate .

See , just , you know , to like catch the oil and drain it from the chicken because we don't want that .

And for you to have the crispy tender chicken , you have to drain the oil .

Ok , guys , I mentioned earlier that it takes 7 to 8 minutes to fry it , right ?

But I think since my chicken pieces are big , it took me around 9 to 10 minutes .

So as I said , you know , you can eyeball it and like for this one now , this looks mighty golden brown and this is how I like my chicken and this is perfect .

There you go .

Golden , crispy , delicious chicken dying .

It's still hot .

But I wanna show you how crispy it is .

Let me just get from the corner and if you could hear that crackling sound , that's the sound of goodness .

Ok ?

So I hope that I have shared with you the simple joys of making your own chicken joy at home .

Good luck .

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Thank you so much from my home to yours .