Grammy's Kitchen · Fried Chicken · Fried Chicken - ultra craggy crispy crust!
One of 60 fried chicken recipes we measured
It ranks #58 of 60 for crust crunch among the fried chicken recipes we compared. 146 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 60.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| dairy | 68% | 3% |
| egg | 14% | 0% |
| liquid | 68% | 4% |
| salt | 11% | 0% |
| aromatics | 4% | 0% |
| fat | 0% | 1% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 200 g | 1.8 kg/ 3.6lb bone in, skin on small thighs (< 200g/7oz), drumsticks, whole wings, breast (< 200g/7oz) ((Note 1)) |
| 245 g | 1 cup buttermilk ((Note 2 for sub)) |
| 18 g | 1 tbsp salt |
| 50 g | 1 egg |
| 270 g | 2 1/4 cups flour (, plain / all purpose) |
| 90 g | 3/4 cup corn flour / cornstarch |
| 18 g | 3 tsp salt |
| 4 g | 3/4 tsp celery salt |
| 11 g | 1.5 tbsp black pepper ((Note 2)) |
| 3 g | 1.5 tsp sweet paprika ((ie. not hot or smoked)) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (, optional) |
| 5 g | 1.5 tsp onion powder |
| 8 g | 3 tsp garlic powder |
| 4 g | 1 tsp mustard powder |
| 2 g | 3/4 tsp ginger powder |
| 3 g | 1.5 tsp dried thyme |
| 2 g | 1.5 tsp dried oregano |
| 1.5 - 2 litres / quarts vegetable oil ((or canola or peanut, Note 8 for re-use)) |
Method: 21 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Well, I think my experience is a good example of how… adaptable and hard to truly muck up this recipe is. I measured out all my herbs and spices (unfortunately I can’t use all of them because my sister can’t have onions and garlic, even powdered) and then, di” — a cook, 5.0★
“I just wanted to try this recipe and it worked well. I did have a bit of trouble getting the scraggy crumb to adhere to the chicken drum sticks ( I only had drumb sticks in the fridge) but it worked OK so long as there was a bit of marinade left on the chicke” — a cook, 5.0★