Caroline's Homage to Monells
Monell's is a family restaurant in Nashville, TN. When I get a hankering for
Monells Southern comfort food I make this meal. This meal will take
approximately an hour and fifteen minutes to make but it it is WELL worth it!
MMM MMMM MMM Enjoy!
Cook dishes in the following order so everything gets done at same time:
Fried Chicken
Corn Pudding (not a dessert - a side dish)
Bacon Corn Muffins
Cole Slaw
Sweet Tea
Serves Four
Fried Chicken
3 chicken breasts cut into thirds (if small split into halves)
Salt Water (optional - used to soften chicken)
2 cups flour
1/4 cup Paprika
3 tbsp Onion Salt
3 tbsp Garlic Powder
1/4 cup Adobo (Adobo is a Puerto Rican spice it contains: garlic powder, salt,
pepper, tumeric. You can substitute with just salt and pepper)
3 tbsp Chicken Bouillion
1/4 cup Thyme
1/2 cup Oregano
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tablespoon white vinegar
1 egg white
1 1/2 cups of Oil
1. Soak chicken in salt water for about an hour.
2. Rinse off chicken well.
3. Prepare flour mixture. Wet your finger and dip into flour to taste it.
If it tastes good continue with the recipe. If it tastes too salty add
more flour. You can add more of each seasoning until you get desired taste.
4. Heat oil (use smallest 3-4 inch deep pan you have)
5. Prepare milk batter
6. Dip chicken into milk batter and soak it good.
7. Dip chicken into flour mix and coat well
8. Repeat 6 and 7.
9. Fry one piece of chicken at a time, until brown. (Approx. 3-5 minutes each)
10. Place chicken on a paper-toweled plate
11. Put chicken in a baking dish and seal with foil.
12. Bake chicken at 400 degrees for a little over an hour.
When you hear it sizzling and it starts to smell good it's done.
Corn Pudding
1 can of corn
1/2 cup large cracker crumbs (like Saltines)
1 1/2 cups Milk
2 Eggs
1/4 cup Sugar (to taste - should be sweet)
Little nutmeg
Dash of Salt
3 tbsp. Margarine
Mix all ingredients in 3-4 inch deep ovensafe pot.
Bake 400 degrees for about 45 minutes (can go up to 425 near end of baking)
Bacon-Corn Muffins
5 slices bacon
1 cup flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 1/2-ounce canned corn (note can is usually 15 oz so don't use whole can)
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
Cook bacon until browned. Save bacon drippings.
Use part of the leftover bacon grease to grease muffin tin.
With a fork mix flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl with a fork beat corn, milk, egg, and remaining bacon drippings.
Mix corn mixture into flour mix. Stir in crumbled bacon.
Bake 425 degrees for 15 minutes.
Coleslaw
2 cups of shredded cabbage
1/4 cup mayonaisse
2 tbsp white vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp milk
Wash cabbage. In a seperate bowl mix dressing ingredients. Fold into cabbage.
Sweet Tea
5 cups water
3 Lipton tea bags
1/2 to 1 cup of sugar (to taste)
Measure five cups water into microwavable bowl. Put in three lipton tea bags.
Heat in microwave until hot. Remove from microwave, pour in 1/2 to 1 cup sugar
depending on preference. Stir to dissolve sugar. Fill glasses to top with ice
and pour tea into glasses.
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