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Buttermilk Fried Chicken

Built around pieces bone-in chicken and buttermilk -- the method starts by mixing the buttermilk with the hot sauce.

Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Prep
20 min
Cook
35 min
Total
55 min
Serves
6
Level
Medium
Rating
★ 4.6

Buttermilk-brined and shatter-crisp, with a craggy golden crust worth the splatter. Here it's built on pieces bone-in chicken, buttermilk and hot sauce -- a medium, American comfort recipe that starts by mixing the buttermilk with the hot sauce, and is ready in roughly 55 minutes.

Worth the 55 minutes -- this is a weekend project that pays off.

A few technique steps to focus on, but nothing that needs special equipment.

Built around pieces bone-in chicken, so the flavor comes from real ingredients, not a spice packet.

Ingredients

  • 8 pieces bone-in chicken
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • plus 6 more ingredients

Method

1

Mix the buttermilk with the hot sauce and 1 teaspoon salt. Soak the chicken in it at least 2 hours or overnight.

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