Andrew Zimmern takes ordinary buttermilk-fried chicken to the next level with zesty, dried salted limes.
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[SOUND] I'm gonna show you the bitterest dish that I
know. Strangest ingredient that you've never heard of. These are
limes that have been salted and dried. They smell like
sweet lime but they're very, very bitter and you can
see here that using a microplane we can actually Break
apart this incredibly potent black lime. Here's some chicken thigh
pieces. I'm coating them in flour. Dredge those, and drop
them into the fryer. By the way, when your hand
gets nice and floury, do not use hot water. Hot
water activates the gluten, right? Cold water, you don't even
need to really do anything to it. Your hand will
just wash clean. If you put hot water on it,
you're gonna have a problem. Our delicious chicken here. I'm
gonna go right there. We're gonna season that with salt
and lots and lots of dried lime. Cuz when it
hits that fried chicken, and it releases all that citrus
flavor, especially as you get past the rind and into
the meat of it, It transforms ordinary buttermilk fried chicken
into this remarkable dish. And so now I'm gonna actually
take cuz I don't wanna lose any of that salt
or black lime. And we have this gorgeous dish [APPLAUSE].
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