Then you deep fat fry in oil that is deep enough to fully cover the chicken.Īlso you should use cake flour if you can get it. By the way, the shaker is also how you develop the little crispy crumblies that dot the outside of fried chicken. Then re-dip into the water, straight up and down to ensure very little breading loss. Remove from the flour and shake the excess off the chicken (preferably back into the flour basin). Take your chicken pieces and dip in the water, then place them in the flour. Once you have the station set up, you are ready to start breading.

You should also invest in a shaker basket of some sort (you can use a strainer or whatever you have that you can put chicken in and clean afterwards that also has holes to allow the flour excess to fall away from the chicken. Basically, you need a tub with your flour and seasonings in it, a basin for water and someplace to place the breaded product. The way to get crispy chicken is double breading the chicken and immersion frying. Alternatively, after pan frying until evenly brown all around, remove from oil and place on a baking rack on a sheet pan and finish cooking in the oven until the chicken is done. Deep fry in enough oil to submerge, or pan-fry in enough oil to come about 2/3 up the chicken and turn a couple times to promote even browning. Dredge the chicken and then return to the milk and then dredge again to get a thicker coating of flour. Shake the flour mixture around so that it asborbs the liquid, this will help create small crunch bits that will later adhere when you dredge the chicken.

Otherwise just dip the chiken in buttermilk seasoned with salt and pepper.īefore dredging the chicken, sprinkle a little milk or water over your seasoned flour mixture.

If you want more tender and flavorful chicken, first brine the pieces in buttermilk that has been mixed with several tablespoons of salt, some black pepper and whatever other seasonings you like. The carbon dioxide produced during frying will cause the coating to expand and become more flaky. First, use self-rising flour or use 1 teaspoon of baking powder added to each cup of all-purpose flour that you're using for the dredging and coating mixture.

Double dredging chicken