City Chicken – The Candyman Setting
This recipe is rumored to have multiple origins but it seems clear that at the heart of it’s creation is a desire to eat something other than chicken, which was considered a “poor man’s” dish. This delicious main course is best created with some veal, but all pork or a pork beef blend is delectable as well. Candyman’s flock or the poorest among would surely sing this recipe’s praises.
City Chicken - The Candyman Setting
February 22, 2022
Persons
6
Serving Size
2 sticks
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
2 hours
Total Time
2 hours, 20 minutes
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds pork meat, cut into 1 - 1.5 inch cubes (use pork shoulder)
- 1 1/2 pounds veal meat (use all beef if you can't find veal but cut the cubes around 1 inch and no thicker)
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- White Pepper
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbls milk
- 2 cups Italian dry bread crumbs
- Flour (to roll skewers in)
- 12 to 15 wooden skewers, 5 - 6 inches
- Vegetable oil for browning
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Alternate the meats, threading them onto the skewers. Leave room on the bottom of each skewer to hold them.
- Roll threaded skewers in flour, enough to coat them lightly.
- Beat eggs and milk together, then dip the skewers with meat into it. Quickly dip the coated skewers into bread crumbs.
- In small batches (so the skewers don't touch) heat the meat in 1 inch of vegetable oil. until just brown.
- In a baking dish, add skewers and then pour chicken broth over them.
- Cover with foil and bake for 45 mins on 325. Uncover and bake at 375 for 15 mins more.
- Remove the skewers from the liquid, and save it for a gravy, or to dip the skewers in.
Notes
There are a lot of steps here, but it's a very simple recipe that tastes absolutely amazing. If you do want to make this dish vegetarian, we have used tofu, and a vegetable stock broth. Be sure you press the tofu of water before cooking!
