Cold Skillet Crispy Chicken Thighs

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in
My Southern Kitchen: From Suppers to Celebrations, Recipes for Every Occasion

By Ivy Odom

Published 2025

  • About

If you make one recipe from this book, it should be this one. Don’t get me wrong, I hope you love all the recipes here as much as I do. But this one is a real winner (chicken dinner). The thing I love most is that it’s so stinking simple to make, and the result is so shockingly perfect that it’s impossible not to love it. The technique, not the ingredients (literally just chicken and salt), is what makes this chicken incredible. By starting the chicken pieces skin side down in a cold skille