Fried Chicken with Eggs

If I'm not mistaken, I've mentioned before that Justin seems obsessed with coating his chicken with flour and bicarbonate to try and make it crispy. That fact has just been proven by his dinner yesterday, where he "accidentally" coated his chicken with flour, even if that wasn't his intention in the first place. So... here we go! :D

What you need:
3 boneless pieces of chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces (he used drumsticks)
Plain flour, for coating
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon Sainsbury's chicken seasoning (or your favorite seasoning)
2 shallots, sliced thinly
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper
Salt and black pepper, for seasoning

What you do:

1. Mix the flour, chicken seasoning and bicarbonate together, and use to coat the chicken.
2. Heat the olive oil in a wok, and fry the shallots until almost translucent.
3. Add the chicken, and fry until golden brown.
4. Add the eggs, scrambling them as they cook. Season well with salt and pepper, and serve immediately.

Even though this was supposedly an accident, he actually made a *very* similar dish last year. The fact that he added the flour almost by instinct, though... is just weird :P He actually wanted to fry the chicken with the chicken seasoning only, not coat it with flour again. But he tipped in the flour anyway. Very weird. :P

Anyway, I can barely remember last year's chicken, but I think I liked that one better. For some reason, the chicken pieces this time round weren't as crunchy nor as juicy, plus they tasted a bit burnt. Either the olive oil burnt, or he left it too long cooking. And no, I don't know why he wanted to use olive oil. To make it healthier, he said. But I don't believe he truly knows either :P

Also, the seasoning for the chicken was a bit... off. They didn't mix together very well, somehow. Of course, there was only Sainsbury's chicken seasoning in there, but the flavours didn't blend, somehow. Or maybe that's just me. :P Anyway, I definitely think there's room for improvement here.

Quote of the day: And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?