
Southern Panko Fried Eggs & Chicken on SourdoughChef John Malik
Prep: 20
Cooking: 20
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 5 Born Free Eggs
- 4 slices sourdough bread
- 2 cups panko-style breadcrumbs
- 2 six-ounce boneless skinless chicken breasts, sliced in half horizontally
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 quart vegetable oil
- Salt & Pepper
- White Vinegar
Sriracha Mayonnaise:
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons Sriracha hot sauce
Hot Honey:
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup of your favorite hot sauce
Vinegar Slaw:
- 1 cup green cabbage, shredded
- 1 cup purple cabbage, shredded
- 1 large carrot, peeled & shredded
- ½ yellow onion, thinly sliced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon fresh black pepper
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon freshly chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Directions
- In a 4-quart stock pot, bring to boil two quarts of water with one tablespoon white vinegar.
- Into a small steel bowl, crack four Born Free eggs, taking care not to break the yolks.
- Turn off heat under the pot, slide the eggs into water then place lid on pot.
- Leave eggs in water for exactly three minutes, then use slotted spoon to remove eggs and gently place on sheet pan with paper towels then place in the refrigerator.
- In a large bowl, mix ingredients for slaw then place in refrigerator.
- Mix mayonnaise with the Sriracha and place in a small mason jar.
- Mix honey and hot sauce and place in separate small mason jar.
- Add vegetable oil into a 4-quart stockpot and place over medium heat.
- In the small bowl add flour, season with salt and pepper and whisk together.
- Into second bowl add panko crumbs.
- Into third bowl crack the final Born Free egg, add a few tablespoons of cold water and whisk together. This is the egg wash.
- Bring oil temperature between 330F and 350F.
- Salt and pepper chicken breast pieces, coat in seasoned flour, then dip into egg wash, then back into seasoned flour. Carefully place in hot oil, one or two pieces at a time.
- Fry to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit, which should take about 6-8 minutes.
- Remove from oil onto cooling rack, allow oil to return to at least 330 degrees then fry the other two pieces.
- On each dinner plate, place slice of lightly toasted sourdough, spoon a generous tablespoon of mayonnaise.
- Once chicken is fried, place one piece on top of sourdough then place a quarter cup of slaw on top of each piece of chicken.
Panko Fried Eggs:
- Remove eggs from refrigerator. Using slotted spoon, carefully coat each egg in seasoned flour, then egg wash, then the panko breadcrumbs.
- Gently place egg into hot oil (330F to 350F) and fry for 30 seconds.
- As soon as each egg is done, place on top of the slaw and chicken.
- Once all eggs are finished, turn off heat under oil and drizzle a teaspoon of spicy honey on top of egg then serve.