Southern Fried Chicken (look Out Kfc!) (paula Deen)
Total Time: 40 mins
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 4
- 2 lbs cut-up chicken
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 cup hot sauce (i use louisiana hot sauce, tabasco might be hotter)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Recipe
- 1 heat peanut oil in a large deep pot to 350°f (do not fill more than half full--you don't want a hot-oil spill-over accident!).
- 2 for sauce mixture: in a medium-sized bowl, beat the eggs with the water.
- 3 add hot sauce and whisk together well.
- 4 pour this mixture into a large plastic zip-top bag.
- 5 for seasoning mixture: in a small bowl, combine 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper and 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder.
- 6 for dredging mixture: in a another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- 7 rinse and pat dry chicken pieces with a paper towel.
- 8 cut breast pieces in half across ribs.
- 9 sprinkle chicken generously on both sides with seasoning blend.
- 10 drop a few chicken pieces of chicken into bag of sauce mixture and squish around to coat thoroughly.
- 11 one piece at a time, roll chicken in flour mixture and drop into hot oil.
- 12 don't crowd chicken pieces--i cook about half the chicken at a time.
- 13 fry chicken until brown and crisp.
- 14 drain on paper toweling.
- 15 dark meat will take about 14 minutes, meat about 10 minutes.
- 16 remember smaller pieces cook faster than the larger ones.
- 17 you can check for doneness by piercing to the bone in the thickest part with a fork.
- 18 if the juices run clear, it is done.
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