Extra-Crispy Fried Chicken With Caramelized Honey and Spice

This fried chicken is coated with a layer of super light, extra crunchy craggy-ness thanks to a tight packing of fine 00 flour coupled with a low-temperature shallow fry. It's finished with a drizzle of toasted honey butter, allowing the hot and flavorful spice dust to stick to every nook and cranny.

The Best Buttermilk-Brined Southern Fried Chicken

Chicken gets brined in flavorful buttermilk before hitting the fryer for a crisp, golden crust.

Nashville fried chicken

Yes, yes, yes! This fried chicken is the bomb. Juicy chicken, crispy outside and a little lick of spice.

Favorite Buttermilk Skillet-Fried Chicken from 'Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking

Before last week, I had never made real fried chicken. Between the perceived mess and my worry of serving burnt-but-still-raw chicken, I knew I'd need a commanding voice to guide me through my fears and persuade me to give it a shot. The buttermilk skillet-fried chicken recipe in Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart's Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking offered just the direction I was looking for.

Hattie B's Hot Chicken From 'Fried & True'

This recipe for Hattie B's Hot Chicken, from Lee Brian Schrager's Fried & True: More than 50 Recipes for America's Best Fried Chicken and Sides, packs the heat and is quite possibly my favorite recipe in the book. Burnished a deep, hell-fire red with a finishing coat of cayenne-amplified oil, the bird is emphatically crunchy with juicy and flavorful meat.

Chicken-Fried Chicken With Cream Gravy

We use our fried chicken technique on boneless, skinless chicken thighs for an extra-crisp crust and juicy meat. So how do you make extra-crunchy, well-seasoned fried chicken even tastier? With a peppery cream gravy, of course.

Double-Fried Chicken With Lemons and Jalapenos

The key to perfectly crisp fried chicken is to treat it like a French fry: double fry it. Crisp, double-fried, buttermilk-marinated chicken flavored with Old Bay and spices teams with fried lemon wheels and jalapenos.

Fried Chicken

This is a Fried Chicken with the most insanely crispy, thick craggy crust seasoned with a KFC copycat spice mix! Buttermilk marinated Southern style.

Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc Buttermilk Fried Chicken

Thomas Keller's perfect buttermilk fried chicken is a must-have at his Yountville restaurant, Ad Hoc. Make it yourself any time you're craving the very best fried chicken (ever) with this recipe.

Northern Fried Chicken Recipe | Cook the Book

All of you fried chicken traditionalist out there take warning: This is not a typical Southern fried chicken recipe. There are ingredients and techniques within this recipe for Northern Fried Chicken from Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Bruce Bromberg and Eric Bromberg that will go against all previous fried chicken notions. The key ingredient: matzo.