Even You Can Make Southern Fried Chicken

My mother could only cook four things, while she did cook other things these were the only four things she made that anyone else would want to eat. 

Thanksgiving dinner
Indian food, she took a cooking class
Quiche
Southern Fried Chicken

This week I want to remember her Southern Fried Chicken

What you will need
Ingredients
1 pound chicken cutlet
1 qt buttermilk
2 cups flour
4 cups Panko bread crumbs 
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
kosher salt to taste
black pepper to taste
3 eggs
5 cups canola oil

Optional Sauces

Ingredients

Franks Red Hot
Real butter
Stone ground mustard
Honey
Sweet chili sauce





Prep

Pour 2 cups buttermilk into a tupperware container, add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp black pepper, and a pinch for cayenne pepper whisk. Add chicken so that all the cutlets are covered cover let sit in fridge over night

Day of prep
Pour your oil into a large stock pot
Put paper towels on a plate, to put the chicken on to remove grease

Prep for frying
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Get out two bowls one for wet and one for dry

In your wet bowl mix three eggs with 1/2 cup butter milk and pinch of salt and pepper
In dry bowl mix Panko and flour and pinch of salt and pepper and cayenne

Get your chicken out
Start with your wet mix, dip your chicken through the wet mix  on each side
then dredge your chicken through the dry cover both sides
then back though the wet then back through the dry
lay on a plate

Once all the chicken is covered heat oil, test it with a piece of chicken
if it sizzles right away and turns white it is ready, fry one or two pieces at a time when the sides brown flip over when both sides put on paper towels to drain

Once all your chicken is golden brown on both sides, place in glass dish and place in oven for 20 minutes or until internal temp is 180

In the meantime make your dipping sauces

Hot sauce
1 tsp franks red hot and 1 tsp melted butter

Sweet Chili
1 tsp sweet chili and 1tsp honey

Honey mustard
1 tsp honey and 1 tsp mustard