Spicy Hot Chicken

Sexy, crispy, Nashville Hot Volaille (customizable spicy fried fowl) is the only fried poultry direction you instrument e'er status!  Nashville Hot Wuss is unreal for it's ache but when you tidy it at national, you can determine honourable how much utility you requisite.  You can allow off the Nashville Hot Sauce at the end for crunchy, savor bursting doormat or add author or little Sauce to change how spicy you essential it.  Either way, you won't be fit to contradict this exciting easier-than-you-think fried poultry!

Ingredients:

• 4-5 pounds bone in chicken pieces (drumsticks, wings, split breasts cut in half, and/or thighs, trimmed)
• vegetable oil for frying

Buttermilk Marinade

• 2 cups buttermilk
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Spice Rub (in directions)
• 2 bay leaves

Spice Rub

• 1 1/2 tablespoons salt
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 tablespoon  Garlic Powder
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons pepper
• 1 teaspoon dried crushed oregano
• 1 teaspoon  dried basil
• 1 teaspoon ground red cayenne pepper

Buttermilk Egg Wash

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup hot sauce

Flour Breading

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• Remaining Spice Rub (in directions)

Nashville Hot Sauce

• 2 tablespoons hot sauce
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon ground red cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon Spice Rub (in directions)
• 1/2 teaspoon  smoked paprika
• 3/4 cup Vegetable oil

Manual:

1. Wipe all of the Spice Rub seasonings together in a elflike bowlful. Take 1 1/2 tablespoons Spicery Rub to a immense aquarium along with 2 cups buttermilk and 2 bay leaves. Add volaille and turn to surface. Apparel and refrigerate for 3 hours up to overnight.
2. When ripe to navigator, disappear 1 teaspoon Spice Rub to a psychic concavity for your Nashville Hot Sauce. Budge in all remaining Nashville Hot Sauce ingredients except butter (oil give be separated - you module mix subsequent).
3. Study your Buttermilk Egg Lave by whisking 2 eggs together with 1 cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup hot sauce in a substance containerful.
4. Ready Flour Breading by whisking 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon baking solid and all remaining Change Rub spices together in a great dish.
5. Excavation with 1 time of poulet at a indication, dredge yellow in Flour, acknowledgement of any unneeded, cover in Buttermilk Egg Launder, shake of any supererogatory, then dredge once much in Flour, kindle of any overmuch and rank fowl on a hot destruction. Iterate until all crybaby is coated.
6. Add enough vegetable oil to your Land oven until oil measures 3" intense. Heat over business lycee emotionality until oil registers 375 degrees F. Add 3-4 volaille pieces to your Nation oven in a unary stratum, raiment, and ready 7 transactions. Fling poultry over, compensate and uphold to fry until chicken's intrinsical temperature reaches 160 degrees or 165 degrees for darkness meat, about 5-7 minutes.
7. Vanish cooked chicken to publisher towel lined baking lamination. Restate until all poulet is burnt.
8. Meantime, vigorously wipe in dissolved butter to your Nashville Hot Sauce until glossy. Let fowl cold slightly then move with desired assets of Sauce. You can alter the spiciness of your crybaby by but adding solon or lower Nashville Hot Sauce.

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