# Fried Chicken Sandwich

A comprehensive guide to making a proper fried chicken sandwich.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- chicken thighs
- buttermilk
- hot sauce
- pickle juice
- flour
- cayenne
- paprika
- onion powder
- salt
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- beer or soda water
- oil
- purple cabbage
- 2 tablespoons mayo
- vinegar
- 1 tablespoon grainy mustard with seeds
- butter
- sriracha
- potato bun

## Instructions

1. Put chicken thighs into a bowl.
2. Cover the chicken with buttermilk, a little bit of your favorite hot sauce, and a little bit of pickle juice.
3. Prepare two bowls of flour and season them the same way.
4. Add a little bit of cayenne, paprika, onion powder, salt, and a tablespoon of baking soda to each bowl of flour.
5. Add beer or soda water to one of the bowls of flour until it looks like batter.
6. Take the chicken thighs out of the buttermilk and drop them in the dry flour, then into the batter, and then back into the dry flour, repeating the dry-wet-dry process.
7. Get a pot of oil and bring it up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
8. Fry the chicken thighs.
9. Get some purple cabbage and slice it thin.
10. Put the sliced cabbage in a bowl.
11. Add a couple of tablespoons of mayo, a splash of vinegar, salt, and a tablespoon of grainy mustard with seeds to the cabbage.
12. Prepare the sauce with equal parts butter and sriracha in a pot.
13. Cook the sauce down until the butter melts, and maybe add a little more sriracha.
14. Toast a potato bun.
15. Take the chicken out of the oil and directly into the sauce.
16. Put slaw on the bottom of the toasted bun.
17. Put the sauced chicken on top of the slaw.
18. Add more slaw on top of the chicken.
19. Place the top of the bun on the sandwich.

## Equipment

- bowl
- pot
- knife
- tongs

## Tips

- Leave the chicken in the buttermilk mixture for a day or two for ideal results.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK-Cg5Ixou-/?igsh=MWJic2c4bGI1aHRndA==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/973dbf35-9793-44b6-b5ef-978a144a4bd9
- Extracted: 2025-07-25

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