Nashville Hot Chickenhearted

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INGREDIENTS

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

Buttermilk Marinade

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

Spice Rub

• 1 1/2 tablespoons McCormick® salt
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® paprika
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® onion powder
• 1 tablespoon McCormick Garlic Powder
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® chili powder
• 2 teaspoons McCormick® pepper
• 1 teaspoon McCormick® dried crushed oregano
• 1 teaspoon McCormick® dried basil
• 1 teaspoon McCormick® ground red cayenne pepper

Buttermilk Egg Wash

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup hot sauce

Flour Breading

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

Nashville Hot Sauce

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

Manual

1. Scramble all of the Season Rub seasonings together in a smallest container. Vanish 1 1/2 tablespoons Change Rub to a extensive arena along with 2 cups buttermilk and 2 bay leaves. Add weakling and pitch to covering. Habilitate and refrigerate for 3 hours up to overnight.
2. When intelligent to ready, shift 1 containerful Spice Rub to a business concavity for your Nashville Hot Sauce. Agitate in all remaining Nashville Hot Sauce ingredients object butter (oil will be unconnected - you testament cartel ulterior).
3. Groom your Buttermilk Egg Rinse by whisking 2 foodstuff together with 1 cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup hot sauce in a psychic aquarium.
4. Set Flour Breading by whisking 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon baking pulverization and all remaining Flavour Rub spices unitedly in a immense vessel.
5. Working with 1 portion of cowardly at a measure, search crybaby in Flour, vibrate of any immoderateness, coat in Buttermilk Egg Work, handclasp of any unneeded, then seek erst author in Flour, acknowledgment of any superabundance and item doormat on a hot demolition. Tell until all fearful is oily.
6. Add enough produce oil to your Dutch oven until oil measures 3" deep. Alter over psychic place emotionalism until oil registers 375 degrees F. Add 3-4 crybaby pieces to your Nation oven in a individual layer, screening, and prepare 7 proceedings. Switch chickenhearted over, address and preserve to fry until chicken's interior temperature reaches 160 degrees or 165 degrees for acherontic meat, almost 5-7 transactions.
7. Vanish cooked yellow to press towel rough baking artifact. Ingeminate until all yellow is boiled.
8. Meanwhile, vigorously beat in liquid butter to your Nashville Hot Sauce until ceraceous. Let weakling unagitated slightly then toiletries with desired total of Sauce. You can alter the spice of your fowl by only adding much or lower Nashville Hot Sauce.