Ingredients
2 - Chickens
Buttermilk Marinade:
- Chicken Leg (2 )
- egg (1 )
- buttermilk (1 cup)
- hot sauce (1 tablespoon)
- pickle juice (1 tablespoon)
- If you don't have butter milk you can make it yourself by combining 1 cup warm milk + 1TB lemon juice and wait 20 minutes.
- whip up some beaten eggs with buttermilk, hot sauce, pickle juice, and maybe a bit of berbere (1/2TB) and MSG(1/2TB) if you're feelin' fancy
- your going to allow your chicken to sit in this AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. I can’t stress this enough, the deliciousness here is increasing exponentially the longer you let it sit. Overnight for optimal results, but if you lack proper planning skill, I’ll accept 2-4 hours.
Flour Dredge:
- all purpose flour (1 cup)
- corn starch (½ tablespoon)
- garlic powder (½ tablespoon)
- onion powder (½ tablespoon)
- kosher salt (1 ½ teaspoon)
- Heat up a deep pot with oil, or if you’re fancy a deep fryer and get it to 325F.
- For the flour mix, just toss together all-purpose flour, cornstarch, onion powder, garlic powder, and the optional rice flour,with kosher salt, give it a good whisk.
- Take the chicken out of the marinade, dip it in the flour, then in the buttermilk, and back in the flour. Repeat for all your chicken pieces.
hot oil spices
- dark brown sugar (1 ½ tablespoon)
- sugar (1 tablespoon)
- cayenne pepper (1 ½ tablespoon),pepper flakes can also work
- garlic powder (½ tablespoon)
- onion powder (½ tablespoon)
- smoked paprika (1 tablespoon)
- chili powder (½ teaspoon)
- italian seasoning (½ teaspoon)
- kosher salt (1 teaspoon)
- mix everything but the brown and white sugar together
- You want to split the mixture into 2 separate mixture and and 1 of the sugars to each.
- the brown sugar is for the oil
- white sugar mixture is for the dusting
Cooking + Oil spices
- cook oil and 325F
- Add 1 cup hot oil to brown sugar mixture
- brush the oil mixture on the chicken
- ideally its enough oil to dip the chicken, but yeah i never have enough oil to waste.
- dust the chicken with remaining chicken