The Best Buttermilk-Brined Southern Fried Chicken

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

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.

Lemon-Marinated Tuscan-Jewish Fried Chicken

A deservedly famed fried chicken dish from the Jewish community of Tuscany, featuring meat that's brined in lemon juice with garlic and spices, then fried in a simple coating. The Italian name is Pollo Fritto per Chanukkà, but we suggest eating it all year round.

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.

Batter-Fried Chicken

While you can't go wrong with the classic dry-dredge, this potato-starchy batter-fried chicken is cleaner, faster, and requires less effort to make.

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.

Fried Chicken Skin With Hot Sauce and Honey From 'Heritage'

Most would agree, the best part of fried chicken is the skin. Evil-genius chef Sean Brock decided to skip the middle man—er, chicken—and go right for the good stuff. He serves these deep-fried strips of chicken skin as a bar snack at Husk, and was benevolent enough to share the recipe for them in his new cookbook, Heritage.

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.

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.