Honey-Brined Fried Chicken Breasts

Name: Honey-Brined Fried Chicken Breasts
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon black pepper; 59 milliliters buttermilk; 4 servings cayenne pepper to taste; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons garlic salt; 59 milliliters honey; 59 milliliters kosher salt; 1 teaspoons onion salt; 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves; 4 servings vegetable oil for frying; 710 milliliters cold water

Honey-Brined Fried Chicken Breasts requires around 1 hour and 45 minutes from start to finish. For $1.66 per serving, you get a main course that serves 4. One portion of this dish contains approximately 28g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 349 calories. This recipe from Allrecipes requires onion salt, buttermilk, kosher salt, and chicken breast halves. This recipe is typical of Southern cuisine.

Instructions

Mix cold water, kosher salt, and honey in a large bowl; stir until salt dissolves.

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Add chicken breasts, and weigh them down with a plate to keep them completely submerged. Cover entire bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

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Chicken Breast

Wrap

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Remove bowl from refrigerator; drain and dry chicken.

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Whole Chicken

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Pour buttermilk over chicken in a large bowl. Set aside at room temperature for 15 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Combine flour, black pepper, garlic salt, onion salt, and cayenne pepper in a large bowl.

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Cayenne Pepper

Black Pepper

Onion Salt

All Purpose Flour

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Coat each chicken breast in flour mixture until well covered on all sides; place flour-coated chicken breasts on a cooling rack to dry for 15 minutes.

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Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cook chicken breasts until browned and no longer pink in the center, about 10 to 15 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

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Vegetable Oil

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Transfer chicken to a cooling rack; allow to cool for 5 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Servings:

1teaspoon

black pepper 59milliliters

buttermilk 4servings

cayenne pepper to taste 237milliliters

all-purpose flour 1teaspoons

garlic salt 59milliliters

honey 59milliliters

kosher salt 1teaspoons

onion salt 4

boneless skinless chicken breast halves 4servings

vegetable oil for frying 710milliliters

cold water

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel are great choices for Fried Chicken Breasts. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Spatlese with a 4.8 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 50 dollars per bottle.

Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Spatlese

The Herrenberg Spatlese is always the flashiest wine at Grunhaus as the vineyards red slate soils render a more lush, slightly lower acid riesling that its bigger brother Abstberg. Spatlese sweet with explosive aromas and flavors of red delicious apples, yellow peaches, strawberry/rhubarb and salty minerals. Full bodied for a riesling, serve with a Virginia baked ham, a spicy lamb curry or just a traditional Jaeger schnitzel.