Fried Chicken for Two

Name: Fried Chicken for Two
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 4 (5- to 7-ounce) bone-in, chicken thighs, trimmed, or 2 (10- to 12-ounce) bone-in split chicken breasts, trimmed and halved crosswise; , Salt and pepper; 1 1/4 cups, all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, garlic powder; 1/2 teaspoon, dried thyme; 1/4 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 1/2 cup, buttermilk; 1 1/2 cups, peanut or vegetable oil

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2014

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Chicken

For Two

To make a scaled-down version of fried chicken, we had to take the “deep” out of frying.

SERVES2

TIME50 minutes, plus 30 minutes refrigerating

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

When you’re frying chicken for a crowd, it’s easy to overlook the copious amounts of oil necessary to achieve juicy, tender meat and a supercrispy coating. Not so when you’re cooking for two. To scale things down to size, we transfer the op...

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