The Ticket to Ride™ Official Cookbook is a culinary adventure inspired by the popular board game. It features recipes for regional dishes and drinks from across the United States and Canada, corresponding to the game’s destinations. Think New York pizza paired with a San Francisco Mai Tai, or New Orleans po’boys followed by Little Rock pecan pie. It’s designed to enhance your game nights with delicious meals and leave everyone satisfied and ready for another round of Ticket to Ride™ fun. Nashville’s best-known poultry is sweet, spicy, crispy, and juicy. After the chicken is fried to a perfect golden brown, it’s slathered in a coating made from leftover frying oil, cayenne pepper, chili powder, and brown sugar. This combo of sweet and spicy ingredients is sure to make things steamy as your route takes you through Tennessee.
Based on Alan R. Moon’s iconic board game, Ticket to Ride:
The Official Cookbook offers dining car menus inspired by your favorite destinations throughout the United States and Canada. Those who love Ticket to Ride know that each game is new and exciting, an opportunity to not just connect cities and routes, but to connect with friends and family. So, while you’re out exploring the map, cutting off your fellow continent-trotters’ routes, collecting tickets, and racing to travel through as many cities as possible, take that full-steam-ahead wanderlust to another level via these can’t-lose snacks, desserts, meals, and drinks.
The 75+ recipes are organized by the Destination Tickets you know and love from the core Ticket to Ride game, featuring unique dining-car menus inspired by the cities through which you travel. Each of the 15 routes includes an appetizer, a side dish, a main course, a dessert, and a cocktail (with or without alcohol) — all with deliciously strong ties to destination cities. Inside you’ll find easy-to-follow recipes and full-color photos for local favorites, regional desserts, and cocktails, including:
• New England Clam Chowder (Boston, Massachusetts)
• Hot Chicken (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Poutine (Montreal, Canada)
• Possum Pie (Little Rock, Arkansas)
• Half-Smoke Sausage Bites (Washington, DC)
• Cheesecake (New York, New York)
• Mai Tai (San Francisco, California)
• And much more!
The Ticket to Ride™ Official Cookbook: Hot Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups dill pickle juice
- 8 or so bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces (thighs, breasts, legs, wings)
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons Creole seasoning
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1/3 cup Southern-style hot sauce, such as Frank’s RedHot
- 2 quarts neutral oil, such as peanut or vegetable
- 1/3 cup ground cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon light or dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Pour the pickle juice into a large ziplock bag. Add the chicken pieces and let them sit in the brine in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or up to overnight.
- Set out two shallow dishes. In the first, mix together the flour, cornstarch, and Creole seasoning. In the second, pour the buttermilk and hot sauce.
- Dunk each chicken piece into the flour mixture, then the buttermilk mixture, then back in the flour mixture. Place the breaded pieces on a wire rack set on a baking sheet.
- Pour the oil into a large pot—it should come about a third to halfway up the pot sides—and heat over high heat until the oil reaches 350°F. (To check the temperature, use a cooking thermometer dipped into the oil or clipped to the side of the pot.)
- Use tongs to carefully place half the chicken pieces in the oil. Fry for 7 to 10 minutes, depending on the size of the pieces (small thighs will cook faster than large breasts). Repeat with the remaining chicken pieces, then turn off the heat.
- To make the spicy oil for the chicken, transfer at least a cup of the used cooking oil into a heatproof bowl. Add the cayenne pepper, paprika, brown sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, and salt, then mix everything together. Use a brush to coat the cooked chicken pieces with the spicy oil.
Bring together your friends, family, and fellow passengers to snack on treats, collect destination tickets, build routes, and reimagine game night as a tasty adventure.
Check out the cheesecake recipe too!
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