Beer-Battered Fried Chicken

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 to 6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

Southern cooks have been bantering over fried chicken ever since Mary Randolph proffered the first (and, in many respects, still definitive) recipe in her Virginia House-Wife in the early nineteenth century, one of the latest twists being this tangy version using a slightly fermented beer batter. If an extra-crispy skin and very moist interior is what you’re looking for