Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Recipe

There is one style of cooking that southerners have perfected, and that is frying. A southerner can fry anything and make it taste good, chicken is no exception. This Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Recipe is guaranteed to make your mouth water, your thighs thicken and your arteries clog.

There is a secret to cooking this Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Recipe, you must fry the chicken in a top quality cast iron skillet. The older and more used the cast iron skillet is, the better. Cast iron cookware in the south are prized heirlooms, handed down from generation to generation.

Following this recipe, but using a different type of skillet will still give you good crispy fried chicken, it just won't be as good as Crispy Southern Fried Chicken.

Ingredients:

2-3 pounds of any part of the chicken you like best-legs, breast or even a whole cut-up fryer.

1 quart of buttermilk

4 eggs

3 cups of flour

seasoning like salt, pepper or Mrs. Dash

1 1/2 cup Crisco vegetable oil or shortening

3 medium sized bowls, large cast iron skillet

Rinse chicken parts under cold running water and place in a bowl, cover with buttermilk.

Let the chicken marinate in the buttermilk for at least 10 minutes, preferably longer. You can cover and refrigerate this for hours prior to frying.

Place flour in a bowl, season flour to taste with salt, pepper, etc.

Crack open the eggs in another bowl, beat the eggs.

Put Crisco in the skillet and place on stove on medium high heat

Remove 1 piece of chicken from the buttermilk, allowing excess buttermilk to drip off.

Roll the chicken in the flour.

Roll the chicken in the raw eggs, then roll in flour again.

Place chicken in skillet. Repeat process until all the chicken has been coated and is in the skillet.

The Crisco in the skillet should be hot enough to instantly begin to fry the first piece of chicken, if not, turn the heat up slightly. Each piece of chicken needs to be browned quickly on the outside for crispiness, then turn the heat down to finish cooking the chicken through. Cooking time will be about 30 minutes. Do not cover the frying chicken with a lid, the chicken will absorb more of the Crisco and not be as crispy if you do.