Nashville Hot Chicken - How to Make Crispy Nashville-Style Fried Chicken

Summary by Krater

Chef John demonstrates how to make authentic Nashville Hot Chicken at home, featuring a buttermilk and hot sauce marinade, double-dredged seasoned flour, frying in a cast-iron skillet, and finishing with a spicy butter-lard sauce served over white bread and pickles.

From the video

Answers: How do you make Nashville hot chicken at home?

• Nashville hot chicken recipe
• Chicken marinade with buttermilk and hot sauce
• Double-dredging fried chicken technique
• Frying chicken in a cast-iron skillet
• Spicy butter-lard basting sauce

Ingredients

• buttermilk
• hot sauce
• 1 large egg
• 1 cut up chicken
• all-purpose flour
• fine salt
• butter
• lard
• 2 tablespoons cayenne
• garlic powder
• sweet paprika
• brown sugar
• black pepper
• vegetable oil
• white bread
• pickles

What it concludes

• Seasoning chicken with salt the night before yields best results, though marinating without pre-salting still works well.
• Using the wet hand, dry hand method prevents fingers from getting overly cugnked up with batter and flour.
• Letting dredged chicken rest for 15 minutes before frying allows the coating to set up for better results.
• Turning fried chicken pieces multiple times cools the outer coating slightly, resulting in a twice-fried effect for crispier chicken.