Nashville Hot Fried Chicken
Nashville Hot Fried Chicken

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, nashville hot fried chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Nashville Hot Fried Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

I hope you enjoy this easy Nashville Hot Chicken recipe! If you've never had Nashville Hot Chicken, we're talking about an ultra-crispy fried chicken doused with a cayenne-infused glaze, and by 'glaze' I mean melted butter and lard. For the record, I've never been to Nashville, so I can't tell you how authentic this is, but it works for me.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have nashville hot fried chicken using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Nashville Hot Fried Chicken:
  1. Take 2 lb boneless chicken thighs for you could use bone-in chicken
  2. Make ready Cajun seasoning or you can make your own
  3. Get brown sugar
  4. Make ready 2 eggs
  5. Prepare 2 cups buttermilk
  6. Prepare all purpose flour
  7. Get lard cooking fat
  8. Make ready hot sauce

One bite and it will become your favorite fried chicken indulgence! A while back, I reviewed Rebecca Lang's Fried Chicken cookbook (Affiliate Link) so pulled it out when I was ready to make my Nashville Style Hot Fried Chicken. Nashville Hot Chicken begins with fried chicken. It is the base of the recipe and needs to be fabulous on its own to hold up to the sauce.

Steps to make Nashville Hot Fried Chicken:
  1. Wash your chicken and trim fat, if you'd like.
  2. Place your chicken in a large bowl and sprinkle with Cajun seasoning and brown sugar and coat well using your hands. There is no measurements for the seasoning use as much as you would like.
  3. Whisk together eggs, buttermilk, hot sauce in a large bowl; set aside
  4. Heat the Lard cooking fat in a cast iron skillet until temperature reach 350 degrees. Make sure there is enough grease in the skillet to slightly cover the chicken while frying. Dip one chicken in the egg and buttermilk mixture after that dip it into the all-purpose flour shake off excessive flour. Repeat this with the remaining chicken.
  5. Find the chicken in batches 15 - 17 minutes for boneless chicken breast 18 to 20 minutes if you were using bone-in chicken. Cook until crispy and dark golden use a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chicken register 165 degrees. Oil temperature will drop after chicken pieces are added to the oil. Adjust the temperature during frying as necessary to maintain a steady temperature of 325 degrees.
  6. Remove chicken from the oil. Use a wire rack to drain the oil from the chicken.
  7. Using a heatproof bowl such as a metal bowl or a glass bowl. Please do not use a plastic Bowl. Add Cajun seasoning and brown sugar along with two to three ladles of cooking grease and mix well.
  8. Baste the Fried Chicken with the spiced oil… serve immediately. This recipe is totally off the hook. Try it and enjoy.
  9. You can get a video tutorial by checking out my YouTube channel Ray Mack's kitchen and Grill.

Once the hot chicken is fried, it is then topped with a sauce created with several different spices. Chicken Breast, Cole Slaw, Nashville Comeback Sauce, Kosher Pickle. Sink your teeth into this spicy, Southern-fried favorite. We took Nashville-style white-meat chicken patties and piled it on a mountain of creamy mashed potatoes and zesty sauce then topped that with corn, mozzarella, and parsley. Nashville hot fried chicken boasts just the right level of heat which it takes from a bath of buttermilk and habanero sauce.

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