Southern
Southern Fried Chicken
Southern Fried Chicken is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3.5 lb bone-in chicken pieces
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 6 cups neutral oil
How to cook it
- Soak the chicken pieces in the buttermilk with 1 tsp salt for at least 30 minutes.
- Whisk the flour, paprika, garlic powder, cayenne, remaining salt, and pepper in a shallow dish.
- Heat 2 inches of oil in a heavy pot to 350F.
- Lift each piece from the buttermilk and dredge thoroughly in the seasoned flour, pressing to coat.
- Fry in batches, turning occasionally, until deep golden and cooked through to 165F, about 14 minutes.
- Drain on a rack and season with a little more salt before serving.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Southern Fried Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Southern Fried Chicken carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish and Grains
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Southern Fried Chicken takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, buttermilk, and flour.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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