BBQ Fried Chicken

Name: BBQ Fried Chicken
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 2 cups buttermilk; 6 cups pastry flour (can substitute all purpose or bread flour); ¾ cups Meat Church Honey Hog BBQ rub; 3-4 lbs chicken pieces (I prefer dark meat and love the Frenched Chicken Drumsticks from Allen Brothers); 2 tablespoons kosher salt; 2 quarts canola oil

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Champions of Sous Vide

By Mike La Charite and Jason Logsdon

Published 2019

About

You haven’t lived until you’ve eaten sous vide fried chicken! You get perfectly-cooked, juicy chicken paired with a crispy and flavorful crust. The breading recipe is based on Chefsteps’ Can’t-F***-It-Up Fried Chicken, but I replaced their seasonings with one of my favorite BBQ rubs. This could work with so many different flavors!

Ingredients

For the Chicken

3-4 lbs chicken pieces (I prefer dark meat and love the Frenched Chicken Drumsticks from Allen Brothers)
2 tablespoons

Main course
Sous vide

Method

For the Chicken

Preheat a sous vide bath to 150°F (65.5°C), 140°F (60°C) if using white meat. Salt the chicken pieces and seal them in a sous vide bag. Submerge and cook until pasteu