Southern

Southern Fried Chicken

Name: Southern Fried Chicken
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
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

Loretta Mae @loretta_mae

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.

60 min Involved Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Southern Fried Chicken

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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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.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Southern Fried Chicken
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Gluten	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 550 kcal
Protein: 38 g
Carbs: 22 g
Fat: 34 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 700 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.