This one is a simple friend chicken that beats wasting money on soggy KFC.
Ingredients
Vegetable oil, for frying
4 chicken thighs or chicken breasts
(no bones)
1 ½ tbsp Smoked paprika
½ tspn Cayenne pepper
1 tspn Onion powder
½ tspn Garlic salt
½ tspn White pepper
1 tspn Baking powder
2 tspn Salt
½ tspn Brown sugar
1 cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs
1 cup Flour (plain)
3/4 cup Cornflour
Instructions
Step 1
In a mixing bowl, add the smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, onion powder, garlic salt, white pepper, salt, and brown sugar. Mix well.
Step 2
Flatten your chicken by placing in between cling film and lightly pound using a meat mallet or underside of a saucepan until an even size.
On your chicken pieces, sprinkle approx. 2 teaspoons of the spice mix and coat each side evenly. Keep the rest of the spice mix for later.
Step 3
In a marinating container or mixing bowl, add the butter milk, 2 whole eggs, one tsp of salt mix well. Add the spice coated chicken to the butter milk, cover, refrigerate and marinate overnight or a minimum of 2 hours.
Step 4
The next day or 2 hours later, remove the chicken from the fridge. Heat up your deep frying oil to a temperature of 170°C
Step 5
While the oil is heating, add your leftover spice mix to a mixing bowl along with the all flour, cornflour and baking powder.
Mix well. Remove the chicken pieces from the butter milk and place in spicy flour coating one at a time. Repeat process until each piece has been coated in flour mix.
Step 6
Place the chicken in the hot oil 2 or 3 pieces at a time until golden brown. Remove and place on a wire rack for the fat to drip. Serve immediately.
