Crispy Fried Chicken
photo by PrincessPage
- Ready In:
- 6hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 4 lbs broiler-fryer chickens, cut
- 2 cups flour, plus additional as needed
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons seasoning salt, plus
- 1 teaspoon seasoning salt
- 3 teaspoons oregano
- 1⁄2 tablespoon paprika
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- buttermilk, to cover chicken
- 1 cup hot sauce (I use Franks)
- oil, i use peanut oil (for frying)
directions
- Soak the chicken in the refrigerator in a bath of buttermilk, hot sauce 1 tsp seasoning sale and pepper. Enough buttermilk to completely coat the chicken. At least 4 hours, up to overnight.
- mix (in a gallon sized baggie works nicely) 1 cup flour with remaining spices.and pepper if you'd like.
- pull chicken pieces out of bath, allowing excess liquid to drip off a little. Shake each piece separately in the flour mixture and place on a drying rack to rest. Allow to rest at least 15 minutes, and up to 30. Reserve the buttermilk mixture.
- Repeat: Dip each piece of chicken into buttermilk and then into the flour mixture. Place on drying racks and allow to rest another 15 to 30 minutes.
- in a skillet or electric frying pan, put enough oil to come up 1/2 each chicken piece. Heat to 360. Place chicken skin side down a piece or two at a time to avoid the temp from dropping too low (that will make your chicken turn out oily). Do not crowd chicken.
- Cook until brown and blood starts bubbling out of the top. you can shake the pan a little to make sure they are not sticking. Turn each piece and cook again until brown. At this point you can finish in a 350 oven on a greased (sprayed) cookie sheet. Otherwise cook turning occassionally until juices run clean when tested.
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