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We covered deep frying so now let’s cover shallow frying. This is how you make a crispy and juicy cutlet for a sandwich. If you have some cheap pork or chicken, pound it with a meat tenderizer (or use the side of a hammer that’s wrapped in parchment paper and secured with an elastic band) to make it really thin. Bread the meat by first dipping it in a little flour, then in a bowl with beaten egg, and then rolling it in bread crumbs. Using a frying pan with a ½ inch of fat (maybe your lovely duck fat) in the bottom, we will now fry the cutlet. Heat the oil to about 350 F or 180 C and gently add the cutlet to the fat – it should sizzle immediately or the temperature is not high enough. Let it cook until golden brown on one side, and then flip it and cook it on the other side until it too is golden brown. Remove the cutlet and place it on a plate covered in newspaper to suck up the extra oil. Serve this cutlet on a bun with mashed potatoes, coleslaw, or sauerkraut, whatever you like. It’s quick and inexpensive to prepare.
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Another idea for shallow fat frying is to make a savory pancake-like dish. Call it a blini, a rosti, or a fritter; it’s just a way for you to use up some different ingredients by binding them together with flour and egg and frying them to a tasty golden crispy form. Take a grated potato, onion brunoise, parsely, your mayonnaise, some flour and one egg. Mix everything but the four until you have a smooth mixture. Incorporate flour into the mix until you have a uniform and dry mixture which can be formed into mini, burger-like shapes. Season with a little salt and pepper. Fill your cast iron pan ½ an inch deep with your chosen frying oil, and heat it to 365 degrees – do the bread trick as seen above, to get the accurate temperature. Fry these little burgers until golden and serve with whatever you like: mayo, salsa, chutney, ketchup (make your own), salad, you choose.
Another little mini burger/fritter kind-of-thing could be julienne apple, brunoise red pepper, black pepper, ham brunoise, Dijon mustard, egg, and flour. This will be a beautiful little dish. Cook it the same way as the above example.
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