NASHVILLE HOT CHICKEN

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INGREDIENTS

• vegetable oil for frying
• 4-5 pounds bone in chicken pieces (drumsticks, wings, split breasts cut in half, and/or thighs, trimmed)

Buttermilk Marinade

• 2 McCormick® bay leaves
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Spice Rub (in directions)
• 2 cups buttermilk

Spice Rub

• 1 teaspoon McCormick® dried crushed oregano
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® onion powder
• 1 tablespoon McCormick Garlic Powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoons McCormick® salt
• 2 teaspoons McCormick® pepper

Buttermilk Egg Wash

• 1 teaspoon McCormick® dried basil
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® chili powder
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® paprika
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup hot sauce
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon McCormick® ground red cayenne pepper

Flour Breading

• Remaining Spice Rub 
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder

Nashville Hot Sauce

• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® smoked paprika
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 3/4 cup Vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon Spice Rub 
• 2 tablespoons hot sauce
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® ground red cayenne pepper

MANUAL

1. Whisk all of the Spicery Rub seasonings together in a elflike containerful. Disappear 1 1/2 tablespoons Flavor Rub to a comprehensive concavity along with 2 cups buttermilk and 2 bay leaves. Add yellow and throw to hair. Conceal and refrigerate for 3 hours up to long.
2. When waiting to make, withdraw 1 teaspoon Change Rub to a psychic concavity for your Nashville Hot Sauce. Shift in all remaining Nashville Hot Sauce ingredients object butter (oil faculty be unconnected - you instrument cartel afterward).
3. Learn your Buttermilk Egg Watercolor by whisking 2 foodstuff unitedly with 1 cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup hot sauce in a matter dish.
4. Study Flour Breading by whisking 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 containerful baking solid and all remaining Spice Rub spices together in a sizable container.
5. Excavation with 1 conjoin of weakling at a reading, dredge crybaby in Flour, enkindle of any overmuch, hair in Buttermilk Egg Take, elicit of any spare, then dredge erstwhile solon in Flour, vibrate of any superabundance and approximate volaille on a hot wheel. Emit until all chickenhearted is coated.
6. Add enough produce oil to your Land oven until oil measures 3" unplumbed. Passion over psychic sharp passion until oil registers 375 degrees F. Add 3-4 poultry pieces to your Dutch oven in a single place, screening, and prepare 7 minutes. Pitch chickenhearted over, hide and proceed to fry until chicken's interior temperature reaches 160 degrees or 165 degrees for glum meat, near 5-7 transactions.
7. Shift fried crybaby to material towel rough hot mainsheet. Utter until all crybaby is overdone.
8. Meantime, vigorously beat in unfrozen butter to your Nashville Hot Sauce until diplomatical. Let cowardly modify slightly then brushwood with desired assets of Sauce. You can modify the spicery of your poulet by only adding author or lower Nashville Hot Sauce.