Posted on 12/27/2022 2:24:35 PM PST by DallasBiff
While fried chicken traces its origins to the South, innovative chefs across the country understand the innate appeal of the homey, crunchy, juicy dish. Here, we've rounded up our favorite fried chicken spots from around the country.
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Popeyes is pretty good chicken but they cut up some small chickens any more and not a huge fan of their customer service...
Pretty much the only fried chicken we buy any more comes from the Safeway deli.
I have a great Popeye’s knock off recipe I use for chicken tenders and they come out as good as Popeyes.
Popeye’s Fried Chicken
3 c Self-rising flour
1 c Cornstarch
3 tb Seasoned salt
2 tb Paprika
1 ts Baking soda
1 pk Italian Salad Dressing Mix Powder
1 pk Onion Soup Mix — (1 1/2 Ounces)
1 pk Spaghetti sauce mix — (1/2 Ounce)
3 tb Sugar
3 c Corn flakes crushed
Combine first 9 ingredients in large bowl. Put the cornflakes into another bowl. Put eggs and water in a 3rd bowl. Put enough corn oil into a heavy roomy skillet to fill it 1” deep. Get it HOT! Grease a 9x12x2 baking pan. Set it aside. Preheat oven to 350~. Dip chicken pieces 1 piece at a time as follows: 1-Into dry coating mix. 2-Into egg and water mix. 3-Into corn flakes. 4-Briskly but briefly back into dry mix. 5-Drop into hot oil, skin-side-down and brown 3 to 4 minutes on medium high. Turn and brown other side of each piece. Don’t crowd pieces during frying. Place in prepared pan in single layer, skin-side-up. Seal in foil, on 3 sides only, leaving 1 side loose for steam to escape. Bake at 350~ for 35-40 minutes removing foil then to test tenderness of chicken. Allow to bake uncovered 5 minutes longer to crisp the coating. Serves 4. Leftovers refrigerate well up to 4 days. Do not freeze these leftovers. Leftover coating mix (1st 9 ingredients) can be stored at room temp in covered container up to 2 months.
And rabbit!
I love broasted chicken..
I’m Southern and I love the broasted chicken.
I spent a lot of time in Georgia when I was in the Army... This was several decades ago...
A state supposedly famous for it’s fried chicken...
But ironically, while I was at Ft. Stewart, my favorite chicken was at the “Maryland Fried Chicken” place in Hinesville..
I used to like KFC, but nothing is even slightly edible there anymore, at least at the one nearest me.
With all the southern fried chicken I have had, you cannot taste the chicken only the pepper and salt. When I ask for chicken I want to taste the chicken.
I know what the missing ingredient is in today’s chicken -— farm raised chicken! Chicken from those huge industrial farms all tastes the same -— bland!, no matter the brand. I’m 71, and the chicken my mom fried tasted very different than what I fry. She bought it at the grocery store, or sometimes at a medium sized chicken processor. She salted and peppered it and rolled it in flour. That’s it. It was delicious.
One of those cooking shows featured both white house and belgrade gardens on it. It really is a big thing.
Bkmk
Electric skillet with the giant plug? You mean from about 1955? Still using one here. A Christmas present to my grandmother in 1955.
#20 in the article. (I don’t think they’re ranking them. It’s just the twentieth in the list.
You still have yours? I’m jealous.
I have to ask around the family to see if anybody has Grandma’s recipe (probably includes Crisco).
We used to get our chickens from a local plucker. They handed it to you in a paper bag, still warm.
All these post and the original article are wrong.
The best in the Universe is Mrs Wilkes in Savannah, GA.
An extremely close second is Q’s Chicken Shack on Lady’s Island near Beaufort, SC.
Nationwide, Popeyes, with Publix a very close second.
Sanders sued Pepsi Corporation for what they did to his Original Recipe. He lost— but he made his point to generations after that KFC.... is NOT Colonel Sanders fried chicken. There are websites about this recipe which has been faithfully recreated by true chefs.
There are two thing in my entire life that I have concluded non southerners just don’t know how to make...
1 is fried chicken and 2 is sweet tea.
Don’t ask me why, but after nearly 40 years of living and traveling all over this great country, you leave the south and somehow they just can’t seem to get those two things right to save their lives.
And sweet tea has literally 2 ingredients, yet they can’t seem to get it right.
I used to be a regular at Mama Dip's in Chapel Hill... but I've heard it's not as good since she died and her family took over. They should have mentioned Parker's BBQ in Wilson, NC.
I'm still looking for decent fried chicken in Phoenix. Lolo's is okay, but still haven't found the "it" place.
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