The "perfect" Southern Fried Chicken

The "perfect" Southern Fried Chicken might be just the Southern recipe you are searching for. This main course has 525 calories, 25g of protein, and 38g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. If you have garlic powder, hot sauce, buttermilk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert.

Ingredients

Servings:

2Tbsps

bacon grease or lard 1teaspoon

black pepper 473milliliters

buttermilk 237milliliters

flour 1teaspoon

garlic powder 1teaspoon

hot sauce 237milliliters

salt 946milliliters

vegetable oil 946milliliters

water 1

whole chicken, cut up into 8 pieces

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel are great choices for Southern. 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. One wine you could try is Weingut Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese Number 5. It has 4.4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 69 dollars.