North Carolina Dipped Fried Chicken

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2017, Cook's Country TV

Dip? Hardly. We took a deep dive into this local take on fried chicken.

SERVES 4

TIME 1½ hours, plus 1 hour brining and 30 minutes chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We tried dipped chicken at Frankie's Chicken Shack; read about our visit here. For our version of this unusual sauced, or “dipped,” fried chicken, we started by brining chicken parts in a solution of salt, sugar, and water. We coated the ch...

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