Mike Oski's Polish City Chicken (well, it's not really chicken)
Today in Mike Oski's Kitchen, we are making an old time favorite, Polish City Chicken. This one takes me back years to my childhood growing up in NE/Central PA. Holidays, weddings, or just a weekly meal is when this beauty was made. You don't have to be Polish or from NE/Central PA to enjoy this...even for the first time!
I'll show you, not only how simple this is, how to put this classic dish together from start to finish (and maybe take you and your family down memory lane).
City Chicken is not chicken but instead pork (you can include veal tool), breaded, browned, and baked to perfection to deliver a tender and delicious dish. There are very few steps and ingredients in the making of this...you can do this...you should do this...your family wants you do this (trust me, they will).
In time like these, good old fashion foods are what warm the heart and brings goodness to your dinner table. In these times, we have the time to cook and try new meals...or just learn some new skills in the kitchen! As I always say, If you cook it...they will come.
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How to Make City Chicken
How to Make City Chicken - City Chicken is a regional dish popular in the Midwest, especially around the Detroit, MI area and in the Rust Belt region of the country. The recipe originated during the great depression era when chickens, raised on farms, were hard to come by in the city. Pork was typically more available so restaurants started using scraps of pork meat, placed on skewers, they would try to shape them so they looked like chicken drumsticks. These pork skewers were then prepared in a similar fashion as fried chicken. The recipe is not limited to pork, some people use beef, veal or a combination of any of the three.
Today, my wife, Marlene, who is originally from Detroit, is showing us how to make this delicious meal. Take it away Marla! City Chicken, it’s what we had for dinner last night.
Category: How to Make Recipes / Food / Recipes / Regional / City Chicken / Pork Tenderloin
Similar to:
Pork Kabob / Breaded Chicken / Chicken Cutlets / Beef Cutlets / Breaded Pork / Meatballs on a stick /Corn Dogs / Shake n Bake / Country Fried Steak / Pork on a Stick /Comfort Food / Chicken Nuggets
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International Descriptions:
Pollo de la ciudad (pinchos de cerdo)
Poulet de ville (brochettes de porc)
Городская курица (свиные шашлыки)
Kurczak Miejski (Szaszłyki Wieprzowe)
Πόρνι κοτόπουλο (χοιρινό σουβλάκι)
Thịt gà (Thịt lợn xiên)
시티 치킨 (돼지 고기 꼬치)
シティチキン(豚の串)
豚の串
Holiday Recipe Favorites: Krystle's City Chicken
Krystle Henderson is in the kitchen with her mom as they prepare her family's City Chicken. See what goes in to preparing this recipe.
City Chicken
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History
A similar dish once known as mock chicken was described as early as 1908.The first references to city chicken appeared in newspapers and cookbooks just prior to and during the Depression Era in a few cities such as Pittsburgh. City chicken typically has cooks using meat scraps to fashion a makeshift drumstick from them. It was a working-class food item. During the Depression, cooks used pork or in some cases veal because it was then cheaper than chicken in many parts of the country, especially in those markets far from rural poultry farms.[citation needed] Sometimes cooks would grind the meat and use a drumstick-shaped mold to form the ground meat around a skewer.
Distribution
The dish is popular in cities throughout the central and eastern Great Lakes region of Ohio and Michigan as well as the northeastern Appalachian regions of Pennsylvania and Upstate New York, and at least as far south and west as Louisville, Kentucky. City chicken is commonly found in the metropolitan areas of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Binghamton, Erie, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Scranton, hence, the dish's urban title. In Canada, the deli-counter version is popular in the Ottawa Valley and Kitchener area.
City Chicken Recipe
500g Ground Pork
500g Ground Veal
5 Eggs
1 Envelope Onion Soup Mix
2 tbs. Montreal Chicken Spice
3 cups Panko Breadcrumbs
1 cups Flour
Oil for Frying
10 wooden Skewers
Whole Lot of Love
HOW TO MAKE CITY CHICKEN W LOGAN WELLS THE JUNCTION
HOW TO MAKE CITY CHICKEN w Logan Wells - The Junction I have had so many requests for this recipe, so here it is! This is my daughter, Brianna's, favorite meal. Her youtube channel is BriannaK and @bitsofbri. Apparently, she has mentioned in her video's that this is her favorite meal, so I've been getting lots of requests to post the how to recipe. This is a regional favorite here in Ohio, PA, and Detroit area that was brought with the Polish/Ukrainian immigrants who settled in this area. It is traditionally made with Veal and Pork cubed meat, but with Veal prices sky high most make it with just pork. They called it city chicken, because during the depression era, chicken was higher in price than other meats as it cost more to transport it to the city from rural farms. It can be baked or fried....with gravy, without. This is my recipe and we love it with gravy and mashed potatoes! Let me know how you like this recipe, and please subscribe so you can check out any cooking video's and music biz tips, homemaking, gardening, and cleaning tips. Happy eating!!
City Chicken - A Lorain, Ohio Family Tradition
During the time around the Great Depression many immigrants had recently arrived from Europe and many were still coming to the US. Chicken was very expensive, even more so than pork or veal. Americans innovated means to simulate fried chicken for their families. This delicious meal, city chicken, has become a family tradition. It requires an long, effort-filled preparation that works best with a few helpers, and it provides my family an opportunity to honor my grandmothers and all of the time and love they spent in the kitchen.