Chicken Recipes

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken: Soul Food 101

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken: Soul Food 101

 

What is hot chicken in Nashville?

Hot chicken is a Nashville specialty. Fried chicken breaded and coated with spices, typically heavy on the cayenne. Served with some white bread and pickles, Nashville hot chicken lights up the senses.

Ingredients:

* 2 lb boneless chicken thighs or you could use bone in chicken 

* cajun seasoning or make your own

* brown sugar

* 2 eggs

* 2 cups buttermilk

* hot sauce

* all purpose flour

* lard cooking fat

Directions:

1. Wash your chicken and trim fat, if you'd like.

2. Place your chicken in a large bowl and sprinkle with Cajun seasoning and brown sugar and coat well, using your hands. There is no measurements for the seasoning, used as much as you would like.

3. Whisk together eggs, buttermilk, hot sauce in a large bowl; set aside.

4. Heat the Lard cooking fat in a cast iron skillet until the temperature reach 350. Make sure there is enough grease in the skillet to slightly cover the chicken while frying. Dip 1 chicken in the egg and buttermilk mixture, after that dip it into the all-purpose flour. Shake off excess flour. Repeat this with the remaining chicken.

5. Fry the chicken in batches, 15 - 17 minutes for boneless chicken breast, 18 to 20 minutes if you were using bone-in chicken. Cook until crispy and dark golden brown,  use a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chicken register 165 degrees. Oil temperature will drop after chicken pieces are added to the oil. Adjust temperature during frying as necessary to maintain a steady temperature of 325 degrees.

6. Remove chicken from the oil. Use a wire rack to drain the oil from the chicken.

7. Using a heatproof bowl such as a metal Bowl or a glass bowl. Please do not use a plastic Bowl. Add Cajun seasoning and brown sugar along with 2 - 3 ladles of cooking grease, and mix well.

8. Baste the hot fried chicken with the spiced oil...serve immediately. This recipe is totally off the hook. Try it and enjoy.

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