Chicharrón de Pollo [Recipe + Video] Crispy Fried Chicken Bites

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 pound chicken thighs

  [0.91 kg]
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
• 1 teaspoon oregano (dry, ground)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 cups oil for frying

  (vegetable oil)
• 2 limes cut into wedges

Instructions

• 1 Remove meat from bones. Cut chicken into small pieces that you could eat in one
  or two bites. Leave the skin on the chicken. You can use the leftover bones and
  parts to make broth. Set chicken pieces aside.
• 2 Combine flour, salt, pepper, oregano, and garlic powder. Mix well. Coat the each
  pieces of chicken with this mixture. Shake excess off.
• 3 Heat oil in a deep pan over medium heat (350 ºF [175 ºC). Deep fry the chicken
  until it turns golden brown (3-4 minutes on each side) --careful with hot oil
  splatters! Fry them three by three to avoid lowering the oil temperature too
  much.
  
  Place on a paper towel to drain excess oil.
• 4 If you want to make them in the air fryer, instead of frying in oil, cook at 350
  ºF [175 ºC] for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. They will be paler and a bit
  drier than fried, but still crispy and very tasty.
  
  The first time around they stuck to the bottom a bit, which was mostly solved by
  coating the bottom with a bit of sprayed oil.
• 5 Garnish with lime wedges and serve with tostones
  [https://www.dominicancooking.com/tostones].

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