Spicy Fried Chicken. Deep-fried chicken Southern-style, with a spicy buttermilk soak and a peppery flour coating. Here, classic buttermilk fried chicken gets a spicy twist, infusing it with spice instead of treating it as an afterthought. Chicken parts get marinated in a spicy buttermilk mixture, dredged in seasoned flour with a kick, and then fried in a skillet until crisp and golden brown on the outside, and juicy on the inside.

Crispy fried chicken with a kick of heat and tons of flavor, it's a perfect fried chicken recipe to add to your cookbook. In a medium bowl, mix the buttermilk and hot pepper sauce. Place chicken in the mixture to coat. You can have Spicy Fried Chicken using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Spicy Fried Chicken

It's 1 qt of Peanut Oil.
Prepare 2 lb of Chicken Tenderlions (1 Package) OR 4 Chicken Breasts.
It's 4 oz of pickle juice (Zesty is my pref.).
You need 1 Tbsp of Tabasco Sauce.
Prepare of dry mix ingredients.
It's 1 cup of flour.
You need 2 tsp of powdered sugar.
You need 1 tsp of cayenne pepper.
Prepare 1 tsp of paprika.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1/2 tsp of black pepper.
It's 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of celery salt.
You need of wet mix ingredients.
Prepare 2 of eggs.
You need 8 oz of buttermilk.
Prepare 1 Tbsp of Tabasco Sauce.
You need of Serving Touches...
Prepare of Nashville Seasoning OR.
It's 1/2 tsp of Cayenne, Brown sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, and paprika.

Sprinkle the chicken with House Seasoning. Dip the seasoned chicken into the egg mixture; dredge in the flour mixture, shaking off any excess flour. This spicy fried chicken recipe is pretty easy and straight forward. I've told you guys how I use to be terrified of frying chicken but I seriously think my former chicken-frying fearing self could have handled this recipe.

Spicy Fried Chicken instructions

30 Minutes Before Cooking: Prepare the chicken by tenderizing & cutting to your liking. Have pieces soak in a mixture of pickle juice and Tabasco..
Heat up your oil to 375 degrees. Create your Dry and Wet mixes in separate bowls. Drain your chicken, pat it dry..
Start by covering the chicken in your dry mix, then into the wet mix, and a final time into the dry mixture..
Place 4-5 coated tenderloins into the fryer basket, let cook for 2 minutes OR light brown. They'll darken when drying, more time for breasts, less time for thinner strips..
After removing the chicken to dry, while fresh out of the fryer add salt, and the "serving touches" If reheating- add spices into the pan's oil then reheat..

It's super crispy, crunchy, juicy, with a nice spiciness. Trust me, and if you enjoy Popeye's Spicy Chicken, you are going to fall in love with this recipe for Copycat Popeye's Spicy Fried Chicken. On Popeye's web page, it says, "Over forty years ago in New Orléans, Louisiana , a taste sensation was born. Place the chicken, Marion's Kitchen Coconut Sriracha, chilli powder, garlic powder, sweet paprika and vodka in a large bowl. Pour the chicken and the marinade into the flour.