Crispy chicken with chili mayonnaise

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   >>> up next, how to feed your family for under 20 bucks, unless you're the octomom, right after this.

   >>> we're back with "today's" kitchen and we're gettin' sauce y with the chef from sam pan restaurant. he's cute, isn't he, sharon ?

   >> extremely cute.

   >> you make me blush.

   >> if you've got a family as big as mine, to be able to make dinner for them all for under $20 is huge.

   >> it is, especially with the economy the way it is. you're going to show us how to do it. this is for a family of four?

   >> family of four, and not eight.

   >> or 14, like nadya, and yours.

   >> exactly.

   >> break it down.

   >> this dish is under $17 between the chicken, which is $6.99 a pound or so. you can really stretch it by pounding it out and breading it. that's what we start out with.

   >> paillard.

   >> very good.

   >> had it last night. i love it.

   >> i like to use a lot of vegetables when you're trying to stretch things.

   >> use some local, we just learned.

   >> local is good. so, let me start you out here. first we'll start out with a little bit of chicken. i cut it into strips. it obviously will extend the wherewithal that you can use it. we're going to put it inside a sandwich. i use panco bread crumbs .

   >> you don't have to cut it?

   >> better for you?

   >> it's really easi and simple, that's what's great about this food.

   >> why are these different from ordinary bread crumbs ?

   >> they have seasonings and italian in it. see how light and airy they are? it gets light and crispy a.

   >> doesn't have a lot of taste to it, though.

   >> no. if you slide down -- chicken doesn't have much flavor, like you said. you have to do something to the vegetab vegetable.

   >> let's do something exciting.

   >> are you ready?

   >> how about eating the chicken?

   >> you fried it up?

   >> in a little bit of oil.

   >> here, this is something that's great to do at home. i do this all the time with my son. we make pickles. you can do it with cucumbers, carrots, cut it into strips, red onions , jalepenos, cucumbers.

   >> what kind of vinegar?

   >> i use rice or you can use white.

   >> not red?

   >> definitely not red. i pour it on top.

   >> i like the smell.

   >> taste this. this has been pickled for 24 hours . taste how good those are.

   >> love that.

   >> it gives it a completely balanced flavor. now the next step, if you go into your pantry of your house, everyone has mayonnaise and you have all these things in the cabinet and you have no idea what you want to do with half of them. i'm going to teach you how to doctors things up. grab a little bit of mayonnaise and this is the asian equivalent of ketchup.

   >> what is that?

   >> it's called saracho. whoa! i don't know who did that.

   >> you got you with saracho.

   >> please don't clean me up.

   >> put a little bit of that in there, okay?

   >> yes.

   >> you okay?

   >> yeah.

   >> put a little vinegar in there.

   >> that's awfully spicy.

   >> spicy, right?

   >> yeah.

   >> we'll dilute it with a little bit of mayonnaise, all right?

   >> uh-huh.

   >> that's all we have. spicy mayo . which one did you eat?

   >> that sauce.

   >> that saracho.

   >> you're not supposed to eat it without the mayo.

   >> come overall hot.

   >> let's come over here and see what we're doing next.

   >> you love it.

   >> next we have a vietnamese hoagie .

   >> don't you like anything american?

   >> don't i look half asian?

   >> you look so american.

   >> it is going to be a hoagie or hero.

   >> hero, yes.

   >> we'll call it a hero. nice piece of bread here. it looks like i'm bleeding with all that saracho on me.

   >> if you were my mother, you would be.

   >> mayo on here?

   >> sure, put us to work. what the heck.

   >> put you to work.

   >> that's good. put some chicken on there.

   >> that's so good alone.

   >> how long do you fry that for?

   >> about a minute on each side, minute and a half. then we'll put some pickled vegetables in there.

   >> sharon , you want to get involve d here?

   >> i'll eat it.

   >> okay, good girl. this looks good.

   >> awesome version of it with pork on it, barbecued pork and everything tastes better with pork.

   >> delicious as a salad, too, without the bread.

   >> that's exactly what i'm going to show you, too. take some fresh mint, cilantro, thai basil and crispy shallots.

   >> what is that?

   >> crispy shallots. if you don't want to make these, you can go out and buy it.

   >> sharon 's mouth -- can you eat that?

   >> oh, no.

   >> hold on a sec.

   >> ozzie could bite that. he would bite the head right off that thing.

   >> nice.

   >> i'm going to show you the next thing that you could do. it makes it interactive and fun. shrimp, lobster, lettuce cups.

   >> love the lettuce cups. that's so great.

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