Southern fried chicken

This recipe has more in common with chicken tikka than you might suppose. Buttermilk acts on the chicken much in the way yogurt does, so that the result tastes quite different from chicken merely crumbed and fried. You can adapt your fried chicken to suit your taste by adding whatever herbs you most like. The late Colonel Sanders evidently had a secret eleven herbs and spices in his world-conquering recipe. Shame the chicken that’s used isn’t better.