Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumWhy Champagne and Fried Chicken Are Perfect Together
This wouldn't have been an obvious pairing to me. Actually sounds more like fuel for a 3AM tweetstorm - but I'm thinking, New Years, and if you're doing the good kind of fried chicken, it could work!
When Champagnes are made, they go through a process called autolysis, during which the wine spends time in contact with the lees. The French phrase is sur lie, which is a beautiful way of saying the wine was aged on the dead yeast thats leftover after fermentation ends. The liquid in each bottle eventually takes on the flavors of that yeast which is to say, the bready, toasty, briochey notes that come through when you smell and taste good Champagne.
Those bread flavors just so happen to align perfectly with the crunchy, golden goodness of nicely fried chicken. In fact, as a Kentucky native, Id go so far as to say that the Colonels Original Recipe is the chicken you want to try. The spice blend is packed with savory, umami-driven pleasures, Champagnes natural acidity plays very well with chicken grease, and the wines bubbles amplify the crunchy effects of the skin and coating.
http://amp.grubstreet.com/2017/12/champagne-fried-chicken.html
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)I think I will try that combo sometime soon.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)I was watching Milk Street today, where they made fried chicken the Japanese way, using boneless, skinless thighs, and corn starch, instead of flour for the breading. also used fresh ginger for marinade. Made me want to try it, although I have supposedly given up making fried chicken!
NotASurfer
(2,149 posts)Sounds good to me by any name!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)whistling by outside (in Florida!), watching the Rose Parade, that sounds as if it would be perfect for the "occasion." Seriously. Only, version of choice would be Popeye's spicy.
Instead, it's a seafood, veggie and rice salad, blending flavors right now, but more suited for dining out on the patio, not for huddling inside against temperatures that will fall all day as a gift from the north. White wine available, but unfortunately no champagne.
Next year. Happy 2018!