18 Recipes for Fried Food, from Chicken to Chickpeas

Greasy? Unhealthy? Pishposh! Fried food done right is just another way to cook--one that, as these 18 recipes show, happens to be insanely delicious

By Bon Appétit

July 16, 2013

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Take pretty much any food, and odds are, if you know what you're doing, it's going to taste great fried, especially cloaked in a coat of batter. And it's frying's brilliance that's given it a bad name: Since it's basically guaranteed that whatever you fry will end up delicious, traditions based on using less-than-prime cuts of meat go heavy on the method, which has forever associated deep-frying with anything-but-haute cuisine.

But fried stuff tastes good, and never needs to be greasy, with the right approach (and a good amount of mesh scooper vigilance over the hot oil). So we got together our 18 favorite fried recipes from the past few years of Bon Appetit. Enjoy!