FOOD FUN: Top Your Burger With Chicken Skins
We have no plans to be anywhere near Hilton Head Island, alas. But if we could get there, we’d head to Lucky Rooster Kitchen And Bar for their Blanco Burger (photo #1). Fried chicken skins were on the bar-snack menu when a customer thought he spotted chicken skins atop a burger. He was mistaken, but the chef thought it sounded delicious. Behold, the Blanco Burger, two 4-ounce beef patties on a brioche bun, with: |
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The result: beefy, crunchy, juicy, salty, smoky and spicy. “to cut through the richness of the rest of the burger.” Just what we were looking for to celebrate National Burger Month (May). Thanks to Flavor & The Menu for the tip. Here’s a recipe for simple chicken skins, and here’s a highly-seasoned chicken skin recipe to turn large pieces of chicken skins into a cracker-size snack. Another tip: When you remove the chicken skins before cooking, keep them frozen in a heavy-duty freezer bag until you have enough to fry. You don’t need a burger to enjoy them. Like pork rinds, there delicious as is.
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