Grammy's Kitchen · Fried Chicken · Buttermilk Fried Chicken
One of 60 fried chicken recipes we measured
1 cooks on littlesunnykitchen.com rate it 4.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 60.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| dairy | 29% | 3% |
| egg | 0% | 0% |
| liquid | 29% | 4% |
| leavener | 1% | 0% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| aromatics | 1% | 0% |
| fat | 0% | 1% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1701 g | 1 3.5-4lb whole chicken (cut into 8 pieces) |
| 490 g | 2 cups buttermilk |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| Oil (for frying) | |
| 300 g | 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour |
| 64 g | 1/2 cup cornstarch (cornflour in the UK) |
| 12 g | 1 tablespoon baking powder |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon celery salt |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon garlic powder |
| 7 g | 2 teaspoons onion powder |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon paprika |
| 7 g | 1 tablespoon ground white pepper |
| 7 g | 1 tablespoon ground black pepper |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon ground ginger |
| 6 g | 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 92 g | 6 tablespoons buttermilk |
Method: 8 steps, published by littlesunnykitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I do not care for deep fried foods unless I can get REAL leaf lard and it's not available in my area anymore and I refuse to buy that crappy Snowcap junk from the store. Everything at the meat counter is waaaaay too expensive for people like me on a fixed inc” — a cook, 4.0★