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Baking is equal parts science and art. Once you’ve diligently measured, weighed, and mixed your batter or dough, you still have to finesse it through the actual baking process. This is when familiarity with your oven becomes the difference between a beautiful baked good and a so-so one.
Here are the five most important things you need to know about your oven for better baking.
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This Italian dish borrows an Asian trick for frying chicken: Use potato starch instead of flour and/or breadcrumbs for a crispy and gluten-free coating. Potato starch has been mentioned before as a potentially beneficial resistant starch. Unfortunately, heating potato starch can negate its RS function, which means you won’t benefit from eating it in this recipe. But it doesn’t change the fact that potato starch is gluten-free and, more importantly (if you love fried chicken), it’s a perfect crispy, crunchy coating.
Plus, with a few other easy changes, you can turn Chicken Parmesan into a completely Primal meal: spaghetti squash instead of noodles, flavorful, juicy chicken thighs instead of breasts, and only a light sprinkle of aged cheese.
To coat chicken (or even fish) with potato starch, simply dredge it through the potato starch to evenly coat the meat. Then fry in at least an inch or two of lard or oil. The smaller the pieces, the faster they’ll cook. Frying the pieces twice makes for an even crispier coating.
In the case of these herb-coated chicken strips for Chicken Parmesan, once in the frying pan is enough. Toss the juicy, crispy chicken with the spaghetti squash noodles and marinara, and it’s a bowl of “pasta” that even an Italian grandmother would love.
Servings: 4
Time in the Kitchen: 1 hour
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Recipe Note: Make sure to buy potato starch and not potato flour. They look similar but are very different. Potato flour will give you a soft, gummy coating, not a crispy coating.
Preheat oven to 375 °F/190 °C.
Brush each half of the spaghetti squash with olive oil on the flesh side. Season with salt and pepper. Bake spaghetti squash, face down on a rimmed baking sheet, for 45 minutes or until soft and easily pierced with a fork.
In a wide bowl, mix the potato starch, salt, oregano and basil.
Season the chicken lightly with salt. Dredge each strip of chicken through the potato starch, coating it evenly.
Heat 1 inch/2.5cm of lard in a heavy bottomed pot over medium-high heat. When the lard is very hot and shimmering, add the chicken in batches, cooking until both sides of the strips are golden brown and crispy.
Use a fork to loosen the spaghetti squash into “noodles.” Pour some marinara sauce over each squash, layer with chicken, and then another layer of sauce. Top with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and fresh basil.
Want to add more cheese? Top the squash, marinara sauce and chicken with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and mozzarella. Return to the oven (or put under the broiler) until the cheese is melted.
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You’re at the market, in a rush and quickly need to pick up a pound of cucumbers for tonight’s dinner. There’s no time for a scale or maybe there isn’t even one to use. Here’s how you make sure you’re leaving the store with the pound of cucumbers you need.
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From the ruby-red strawberries of early June, to the onyx-like blackberries that run rampant come July, to the two-crop season of garnet-colored raspberries that linger into August, berries — glorious, glorious berries — are the jewels of summer.
With these five recipes we’re elevating berries to their rightful place — as the crown jewels of summer desserts. So the next time you head to the kitchen, with your trove of berries in hand, you feel like a queen ready to address her quart — of berries, that is — with style and grace.
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If you’re anything like me, you just can’t wait until you get home from the farmers market to taste your wares. Fresh-picked berries, in particular, are my weakness. Those plump little nuggets of sweet juiciness are irresistible — right up until, uh-oh, it pops right onto my summer tank top instead. Or I fumble it right down the front of my tank and onto my white eyelet skirt!
Berry stains are, pardon the pun, berry hard to get out! Those little guys are powerful staining agents. Thank goodness I have this tried-and-true method in the back pocket of my summer cutoffs.
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From Apartment Therapy → 10 Telltale Signs You May Be Living in a Grown Up Home
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As yoga’s popularity has increased, I see more and more athletic programs using yoga-inspired movements. I think this is wonderful, and have absolutely no problem when people call these movements by Westernized names other than their ancient titles. I’m pretty sure the trademark symbol does not exist in Sanskrit.
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Welcome to our weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Saturday, we’ll post up Breaking Muscle’s top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven days. So here they are in one place for you to consume, digest, and enjoy.
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