Chicken of Woods Recipe-Best Guide to Cooking and Caution – RecipeArcade

Chicken of Woods Recipe is a favorite Mushroom dish Deep fried and sautéed to taste and look like Chicken and hence the name. Most people love to taste out of curiosity.

Ingredients

• 1 pound of young chicken of the woods cleaned and sliced
• All purpose flour, as needed for breading, roughly 1 cup
• 2 Table spoon Extra virgin Olive oil
• kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
• 1 generous pinch sweet paprika
• 1 tiny pinch cayenne pepper
• 3 eggs for breading
• 1/2 cup dry white wine
• 6 Tbsp Clarified butter
• 3 clove of garlic crushed lightly with the back of a knife
• Lemon wedges for serving

Instruction for preparing Chicken of Woods

• Take the mushrooms and trim off the base part which is attached to the tree. It’s quite hard. Cut each into 2 pieces or as per your desire.
• Season the all purpose flour with a good pinch of salt, pepper, paprika and cayenne to taste. Toss the mushrooms first in flour, then in egg, then in flour again.
• Heat a pan with 1/4 cup olive oil, as well as 2 tbsp unsalted butter. Add your breaded chicken mushrooms, the crushed clove of garlic, and the thyme. While cooking add wine and allow the entire wine be absorbed by mushrooms.
• Cook the chicken of the woods till it turns golden brown on each side, about 4-5 minutes, adding extra oil if the pan gets dry, then blot the mushrooms on a paper towel quickly to remove excess oil, sprinkle with a little salt to finish and serve immediately.