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Post by stoney on Jan 27, 2010 15:43:33 GMT -5
Has anybody cooked with Panko Japanese-style breadcrumbs? These are great! Coated chicken tastes fried though it's only baked, which is healthier.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 27, 2010 16:08:40 GMT -5
We use them all the time. They are great for "oven frying" as well as pan frying things. Kathy often uses them for baked chicken breasts and also loves uses them and only them, for pan frying fresh fish filets. She dredges the fish in flour, then an egg wash, then the panko crumbs. It always comes out lightly golden, and delicious.
The only thing she uses regular bread crumbs for anymore is for meatballs or meatloaf.
If you eat deep fried shrimp at a Chinese Buffet, it is Panko that makes them so crisp and yet lightly crusted.
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Post by stoney on Jan 27, 2010 16:14:06 GMT -5
I stopped deep frying anything years ago, but I'll bet they'd be good!
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Post by Clipper on Jan 27, 2010 16:55:58 GMT -5
I am guilty of eating deep fried foods when we go out, but we sold the deep fryer at a yard sale a few years ago. Kathy saute's and frys only with canola or olive oil. What we save in saturated fat by using those oils, I blow because I don't like margarine and I eat only REAL butter on toast or biscuits. LOL
Can'tcha tell by my slim and trim figure? LOL
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Post by stoney on Jan 27, 2010 17:25:19 GMT -5
We have a Fry Daddy that I put away long ago because it was too easy to quickly deep fry french fries, et al, when a craving came on. I knew I wasn't doing Jim any favors (let alone myself) so I cleaned out the thing & stashed it away.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 27, 2010 20:46:40 GMT -5
I have always relished the idea of deep frying a turkey, but I can't justify the costs.
!. about 50 bucks for the fryer unit
2. the cost of propane
3. 15 or 20 bucks worth of oil
4. the cost of rebuilding your entire neighborhood when the damn thing tips over and leaves your neighborhood a smoking, smoldering wasteland.
Hey if eating a few pieces of fried chicken is like taking a pot shot at your heart, just think, eating a 20 pound turkey deep fried must be alike dropping an atom bomb on your entire circulatory system.
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Post by chris on Jan 31, 2010 17:50:51 GMT -5
I've been hearing a lot of mention lately of Panko and have been thinking of trying them out. Where are they located with the rest of the bread crumbs or in the specialty dept.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 31, 2010 19:05:28 GMT -5
It depends on where you shop. I am sure in your area that Wegmans has them readily available. If not with the regular breadcrumbs, most likely in the specialty foods aisle. They are well worth the effort to find them, even if you have to go to an oriental specialty market for them.
I find them here at Kroger's in the oriental foods section with the canned sprouts, water chestnuts and all the other oriental favorites.
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Post by chris on Jan 31, 2010 21:54:42 GMT -5
Thanks Clipper...I imagine Weggies should have them. (they copy everyone) Also discovered Asia Market was down the road from where I work.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 31, 2010 22:43:45 GMT -5
Ooo. Asian market. Don't have one of those real close by here. I love the Thai rice noodles that you just soak in boiled water for a few minutes. I love to fix them with chopped up scallions, sliced jalepenos, and a little dash of fish sauce and soy. I buy them at Wally world, but they are not as good as the ones I used to buy in Utica at the Asian market that used to be on Bleecker St.
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Post by stoney on Feb 1, 2010 11:11:51 GMT -5
At Price Chopper they're right with the other bread crumbs. You only get half as much weight-wise for the same price, though they are the same in volume.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 1, 2010 11:33:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the info stoney. Chris got me thinking about all the stuff I used to buy at the asian market. Geez. I guess I will have to start making a trip to that store when I come north also. I may have to rent a u-haul just to bring home the groceries by the time we visit the Casa Imports Italian store on Broad St, Pulaski Meat Market, Chantatry's, Holland Farms, Aldi's for chocolate bars, and Star Bakery for tomato pie.
The last time we left Utica, we had the refrigerator in the travel trailer packed to the door, as well as a large ice chest crammed to the rim with meat and goodies from NY State.
Maybe this summer I will be able to catch a few nice fat walleye's and have a little shore dinner with some PANKO breaded filets and fried taters with onions. Hoping to be there a little longer this year if all goes well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 17:32:45 GMT -5
Is Pulaski still open? I haven't been there in quite some time.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 1, 2010 17:54:08 GMT -5
It was last summer when we were up there. I got to dislike Hap's Keilbasa, so we started going to Pulaski.
While we are on the topic of Panko bread crumbs, what do you use? KRACKER CRUMBS?? ROFLMAO ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 4:34:57 GMT -5
It was last summer when we were up there. I got to dislike Hap's Keilbasa, so we started going to Pulaski. While we are on the topic of Panko bread crumbs, what do you use? KRACKER CRUMBS?? ROFLMAO ;D ;D Cute, real cute.  |
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