How to Prepare Perfect Southern Style Fried Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style fried chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Fried Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Southern Style Fried Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have southern style fried chicken using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Fried Chicken:

1. Get all-purpose flour
2. Take cornstarch
3. Make ready black pepper
4. Prepare paprika
5. Take cayenne pepper
6. Take baking powder
7. Make ready cold water

Instructions to make Southern Style Fried Chicken:

1. Brine chicken for at least 1 hour before cooking
2. In large bowl mix dry ingredients. Whisk together.
3. Add water and whisk until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour.
4. Remove chicken from brine and discard water. Pat chicken dry.
5. Whisk batter to ensure it's evenly distributed.
6. In a dutch oven place 3 quarts of oil and heat to 350°F.
7. Place chicken in batter mixture. Remove and allow excess to drip off. Place in hot oil carefully and cook for 13-15 minutes. Cook batches of white and dark meat together.
8. After 4 min move chicken to be sure it's not sticking together or to bottom the of pan.
9. Once chicken is golden brown or time is reached remove and check and see if chicken is done. Use an onstage read meat thermometer to check internal temperature of chicken (at least 160 for white meat and 175 for dark) being sure not to hit the bone.
10. If internal temperature is good place chicken in a 200°F oven to keep warm until all batches are done.
11. Reheat oil for next batch

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