Tiger Chicken and 5-Minute Chicken Gravy Pan Sauce | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with tiger chicken.

That's right, chicken leg quarters are becoming very popular, which is why I'm very excited to be showing you my tiger cut technique, which along with a few other tricks is the perfect way to prepare this cut of chicken. Plus, I'm also going to show you one of the fastest, easiest, best pan gravies ever.

But first things first, and to get started, we will take our chicken leg, which of course is the drumstick and the thigh still connected. And what we'll do is take a sharp knife, starting about halfway up the leg, and we'll cut all the way down to the bone. And we will keep cutting like this until we get all the way to the end of the thigh. Oh, and one small tip here.

When we get past the drumstick, if we kind of pinch both sides of the thigh, that'll sort of push

the meat up and give us a little more to cut through. And when we're done, we're going to have something that resembles the stripes on a tiger, which is where I got the name. But besides looking cool, that's going to allow our seasonings to penetrate in nice and deeply, as well as, as you will see, and here, help our skin get beautifully crispy and crusty.

So, we'll go ahead and do that to four leg sections. And we will place those skin side down on a parchment line baking sheet. At which point they're ready to season, with a mixture of kosher salt, to which we will add some freshly ground black pepper, some garlic powder, some ground chipotle, which could also be cayenne or just regular sweet paprika. And then we'll finish this up with one secret ingredient before we give it a mix, which is going to be a little touch of baking soda. No, not baking powder.