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• Preparation time: forever (1-1.5 hours)
• Cost: 4-8 CAD
• Feeds: 8 people and a dog

• Chicken pieces - use whatever pieces you like the most, I have no clue which parts I had, but they're tasty. Using boneless chicken pieces saves trouble *stripping* the meat of the bones later, but then the title of the finished product loses it's meaning ;)
• 2 eggs
• 3-4 cups of flour and 1-2 table spoons of flour for the gravy
• 1 cup of water or milk
• 1 tea spoon of salf
• Potatoes
• Cooking oil
• Spices to taste
• Lots of patience

Boiling the chicken

Boil the chicken until it's ready to fall off the bones adding more water as needed. I tend to use a deep frying pan for this and due to occasionally forgetting to add water, the chicken turns out nicely browned.

Do not throw out the water/fat, we'll cook our potatoes in it.

Chicken meat stripped off the bones

Strip the meat off the bones or chop chicken into small pieces if you went with boneless chicken pieces; give the bones to the dog. While the chicken is cooking make the dough (see below)

Cooking the potatoes

Peel the potatoes and cut them into relatively large pieces (see photo). After the chicken is ready, use the same water to cook the potatoes.

Note that you'd want to use more potatoes than in the picture as I had 18 strippers at the end with not a lot of potatoes to go with them.

Mix two eggs and salt in 1 cup of water. Add 2 cups of flour and mix. Add the third cup of flour. What we need to have is something that is not hard as a brick but does not quite stick to fingers. Cover the dough and let it stand for about 20-30 minutes.

Roll the dough into a 1-1.5 inch "sausage". Cut it into 1" long pieces. Use the rolling thingie to flatten those pieces into 1-2mm dough pieces - see photos if you have no clue what I'm talking about.

Cooked potatoes and gravy

After the potatoes are cooked make a gravy out of that chicken broth potatoed water. Take a glass of warm water, add 1-2 table spoons of flour and stir. Then pour that mixture into the broth and bring to boil.

Uncooked "Strippers"

"Strippers" being fried

Wrap the chicken into those dough pieces you made - if you're lucky enough you'll have a special device to do that - and deep fry them in either frying pan or deep frier until golden brown. Alternatively you may want to bake them in the oven to cut down on the whole fat/oil intake.

For those who still did not get where the title came from see the photo of how the final product is set up: The chicken strippers are in the middle while the potatoe "guardians" surround them, the gravy is barbwire around the jail. You may want to avoid putting gravy on the strippers as they are to be eaten with hands and gravy would make that a messy process.

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