Cook Along with Chef Deniz: Nashville Hot Chicken and Buttermilk Biscuits

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Nashville Hot Chicken with Cayenne Glaze, Buttermilk Biscuits, Pickles and Honey Garlic Butter

Yields: 2 portions. Originally presented as a Cook-Along live class on June 4th at 5:30 PM on Facebook Live.

Ingredients for Chicken:

• 2 Bone-in Chicken Leg and Thigh Quarter, Skin On
• 100 ml Chicken Spice Mix; Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Smoked Paprika, Ground
• Coriander, 25 ml each
• 300 ml Buttermilk
• Clean frying oil 2L
• 50 ml Cayenne Pepper
• 500 ml All Purpose Flour, or Next Jen GF Chicken Frying Mix
• Favourite Pickle Slices

Ingredients for Honey-Garlic Butter:

• 100 ml soft butter
• 30 ml honey
• 2 garlic cloves, puréed
• Pinch of kosher salt

Ingredients for Grandma's Buttermilk Biscuits:
Yields 8 biscuits.

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 150 ml cold butter, grated or cut into small cubes
• 30 ml baking powder
• 3 sat all’s green onions, sliced
• 15 ml sugar
• 7 ml salt
• 265 ml buttermilk, or homo milk
• 2 egg yolks
• 15ml milk

Instructions:

1. Method for Chicken: Sprinkle chicken pieces with kosher salt, and rest for 2 hours. Combine with buttermilk and 50ml spice mix, and rest at least 4, or up to 24 hours. Start heating oil in a large pot and bring it up to 325F. Combine the remaining chicken mix with flour. Add 100ml buttermilk and mix coarsely until there are some lumps. Pull a chicken leg from the marinade, drain excess and dredge in flour mix until really well coated. Transfer both chicken pieces to the hot oil and fry around 300F until the internal temperature reaches up to 155F, around 16-18minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack. Take 100ml of the hot oil and pour over cayenne. Dip the chicken to coat while the oil is still hot and return to cooling rack, serve with biscuit, butter.
2. Method for Honey-Garlic Butter: Combine.
3. Method for Buttermilk Biscuits: Preheat your oven to 375F, fan on. In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, baking powder, salt in a large bowl. Mix until it looks sandy with butter lumps. Add buttermilk, and green onions, bring the dough together and transfer onto a work surface. Knead the dough gently by folding and rolling out with a rolling pin. Cut into 8 equal squares. Brush with egg wash and bake until golden brown.

Prep Time: 2-4+ hours (marinade), 60 Minutes

Cook time: 30 Minutes