Batter-Fried Chicken

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2009, Cook's Country TV

This unusual, old-fashioned technique sounded simple enough, but we had to work to achieve the picture-perfect, golden-brown crust and moist chicken that we were after.

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 30 minutes brining

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

As far as technique went for our Batter-Fried Chicken recipe, deep frying easily beat out shallow frying. With shallow frying, the batter always burned on the bottom. To ensure a crisp crust, we replaced the milk in our initial batter with ...

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