Easy and delicious this Chicken Fried Chicken is a quick and flavorful dinnertime recipe that brings the whole family to the table, with minimal ingredients it’s a simple and comforting meal.
Chicken is a staple in our house hold and one of the main meats that we use in a lot of our dishes. I prefer chicken over pretty much every meat, but pretty much will eat anything if I have to.
This Chicken Fried Chicken is one of our families favorite dinnertime meal. We use our recipe for our Chicken Fried Steak and use it with chicken breasts instead!
Not only is it comforting, it is super easy to whip up and feeds a crowd. The golden and tasty chicken pieces are smothered in gravy and we like to serve ours with mashed potatoes on the side.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- Minimal ingredients make it an easy recipe to whip up on weeknights, and it feeds a crowd.
- Using thin cut chicken is the key to get the right sized pieces without having to cut and trim anything.
- The country gravy uses the flavor of the cooking oil to kick it up a notch and gives it great flavor and texture.
This Chicken Fried Chicken recipe really is a fun and flavorful main dish that kills it every time we make it. It has become one of the most requested recipes lately, and for good reason!
HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN, STEP BY STEP:
- In a pie plate or large shallow bowl add your flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper and garlic powder and whisk until combined.
- In another pie plate or large shallow bowl add your butter milk, hot sauce and egg.
- Whisk until combined and the egg is really spread out, you want to make sure that the whites aren’t saturated in one area.
- Take your chicken breast and first dip it in your flour mixture, coating all sides really well, pressing down to get the flour in there good.
- Transfer over to your buttermilk mixture and again coat each side making sure that the flour is covered.
- Lastly place back in your flour mixture and coat again pressing down to get a good coating on your chicken breast, then fry in oil heated to 325 degrees for 3-5 minutes on each side until done.
How easy can this get? Usually we make this Chicken Fried Chicken in a cast iron skillet with a few inches of oil, but we have also made in in our deep fryer and has worked out perfectly as well.
HOW TO MAKE COUNTRY GRAVY:
- Using about 1/4 cup of your cooking oil add it to a heavy bottomed skillet and heat at medium heat.
- Whisk in flour until combined and keep whisking for about 1 minute.
- Slowly add in your milk a little at a time continually whisking until all lumps are gone and gravy has thickened up.
- Add in salt and pepper to your liking.
We like to use the cooking oil from when we cook the chicken, but if you don’t want to use that, just melt the same amount of butter in a pan and make it that way, or if you keep a stock of bacon fat around you can use that as well.
If you are craving comfort this seriously is the recipe that you need to reach for! I mean seriously, deep fried chicken, gravy, how can you say no to that!
WHAT GOES GOOD WITH CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN?
There are so many things that go good with this Chicken Fried Chicken recipe, pretty much anything that you would serve with regular fried chicken would work perfectly some of our favorites you can see below.
These sides are perfect if you want to make a large family meal out of this recipe! Also, this is good for any time of year. While it truly is a comfort dish that we love in the cooler months, we make it all year long!
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN:
- You can use a regular deep fryer to make this instead of in a skillet.
- If you don’t want to use frying oil to make gravy, substitute butter or bacon grease.
- We use the thin cut chicken you can buy at the store, but you can use a regular chicken breast and slice it in half.
- Add more or less seasoning to the flour and gravy to your liking.
This Chicken Fried Chicken is one of the best comfort recipes that you’ll want to have on your menu line-up. Easy, flavorful and delicious.
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Chicken Fried Chicken
Ingredients
- 6-8 thin sliced chicken breasts
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbs hot sauce
- Oil for frying
Gravy:
- 1/4 cup reserved oil from frying
- 1/3 cup flour
- 2 cup milk
- Salt & pepper
Instructions
- Heat oil in deep fryer or large pan on stove (a few inches deep) to 325.
- In large bowl whisk together your flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper and garlic powder.
- In another bowl whisk together buttermilk, egg and hot sauce.
- Dredge your chicken in the flour mixture then dip into the egg mixture than back into the flour mixture making sure to press down flour to get stuck on the steak real good.
- Place chicken in pan/deep fryer and fry on each side 3-5 minutes until golden brown, remove and drain on paper towel lined plate, repeat with all chicken.
- To make your gravy, in large pan add 1/4" of oil from cooking and heat on medium-high, stir in your flour until absorbed and cook for about 1 minute.
- Slowly add in your milk whisking to blend and heat until thickened then stir in salt and pepper to desired taste.
- Pour gravy over individual chicken before serving.
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Notes
- You can use a regular deep fryer to make this instead of in a skillet.
- If you don't want to use frying oil to make gravy, substitute butter or bacon grease.
- We use the thin cut chicken you can buy at the store, but you can use a regular chicken breast and slice it in half.
- Add more or less seasoning to the flour and gravy to your liking.
Nutrition
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Kurston
OMG! I love this recipe! I let the thin sliced chicken breasts “marinate” in the buttermilk egg hot sauce mixture for about an hour before dredging it. It was so delicious! I had never made a gravy with an out base, but it came out smooth and so tasty. (I added just a touch of chicken stock along with the milk to really kick in the chicken flavor)
The left over chicken reheated great in the air fryer!
Laura B
This recipe is fantastic! So easy to make. I fried the chicken in my electric skillet and doubled the gravy. I will be making this again!
DEE
Best chicken fried chicken recipe yet, easy and so so good. The crust is perfect, my husband loved it.
Thank you so much, its going to be my go to recipe
HP
The recipe was easy to follow and they turned out perfect
Megan
Trying this tonight!
Kathywhit
This was the best I have ever made. Didn’t change anything. A real winner
Lisa
This was a winner for my whole family, even my picky husband cleaned his plate.
I used the leftovers 2 days later, topped the dinner salad with the sliced chicken and even the grandkids gobbled it up!
Aidan
I made this recipe for my family and was pleasantly surprised on how amazing this recipe truly was. It came out exactly like the picture and was delicious! Thanks!
Nora Wright-Holt
Hello from Texas, What kind of hot sauce do you believe use? Can you use Louisiana Hot Sauce?
Tornadough Alli
Whatever you have on hand, we usually buy Louisiana hot sauce, but anything would work!
Sally
Great flavor and crunch. Easy to make. I had to make my own ‘buttermilk’ but it came out great.
Robin Weber
Great comfort food, I would add a little more salt and some hot peppers to the gravy.
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Kookinwithkookie
I use the deep fryer bc I can manage the oil temp better and I keep bacon fat… muahahahaha… lol this recipie is perfect. I get the really plump breast and slice it into quarters while it’s slightly frozen to make paper thin pieces to atop biscuits. Serve with potatoes obrien and eggs and you got yourself one heck of a breakfast. To make it “flying” as we call it, top with cheese and chop up a sausage patty finely and toss into the gravy! Mmm!
Tornadough Alli
We use the deep fryer to most of the time, but I know a lot of people use just a pan with oil. I’m so happy you liked this recipe!
Aimee
What Kind of oil do I use to fry it?
Tornadough Alli
We use vegetable oil, but canola or peanut would work as well.
Kelly
I prefer chicken fried chicken over chicken fried steak, and this recipe is delicious !
Larry Barkowsky
Made this tonight, it was really good!
Laura Reese
This chicken fried steak upped my dinner game. It is so delicious and very easy to make.
Beth
Hands down one of our favorite meals to make! Love how simple and easy it is to whip up!
Jennifer
Can never go wrong with fried chicken! This recipe looks amazing!!
Katie
LOVE this recipe and so did my kids, which is saying a lot! Adding this to my recipe list!
Lauren Kelly
We made this last night because my 13 year old loves fried chicken. It was a huge hit! The only problem was that I wish I doubled recipe because there were no leftovers!