Recipe: Appetizing Nashville Hot Fried Chicken

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken. 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.

Juicy, crispy, Nashville Hot Chicken (customizable spicy fried chicken) is the only fried chicken recipe you will ever need! Nashville Hot Chicken is legendary for its bite but when you make it at home, you can decide just how much heat you want. In this Nashville Hot chicken Recipe, you can. You can cook Nashville Hot Fried Chicken using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nashville Hot Fried Chicken

1. Prepare 2 lb of boneless chicken thighs for you could use bone-in chicken.
2. It's of Cajun seasoning or you can make your own.
3. It's of brown sugar.
4. It's 2 of eggs.
5. It's 2 cups of buttermilk.
6. It's of all purpose flour.
7. Prepare of lard cooking fat.
8. It's of hot sauce.

Brush fried chicken with spicy oil. He always gets the Hot Chicken from either Hattie B's or a few other excellent sources. Nashville-Style Hot Fried Chicken is famous for its spicy bite! One bite and it will become your favorite fried chicken indulgence!

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken instructions

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..

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-Style HOT Chicken is a spicy yet savory experience served by the family that started it all. Kim Prince, Owner of Hotville Chicken, invites all you "Heat Seekers" to experience her fiery fowl, brined to burn. It's fried chicken, and yes, it's HOT!! Nashville Hot Chicken begins with fried chicken.