To cook fried chicken, do you have to dip the chicken in egg before the flour?

[Erin]

I'm trying to make fried chicken legs and boneless breasts, and I am wondering if you have to put the chicken in eggs before you cover them with the flour mixture?

 

[6th ring]

no you dont 'have' too.
you could put the chicken in there as is.
but it would be better to do it.


milk can be used too instead of eggs.

 

[FLY GIRL]

You should because it makes the flour stick better.

 

[midnitepoets]

first you dredge it in flour then egg wash (half egg half milk), then bread crumbs. or just flour works too.

 

[humbum.wa]

yes the eggs come first and make the flour stick to the chicken when you roll it in the flour.
if you did it the other way around the flour would clump up

 

[green eyes]

All those answers are WRONG! First, you pat the chicken dry, roll it in flour, then the egg batter, then the bread crumbs, then you fry it.

 

[Riverrat715]

Only if you want to.

 

[Danielle]

yes. eggs then flour mixture.