Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich (Spicy Chicken Sandwich)
Servings: 4 sandwiches
Calories: 889kcal
This Spicy Chicken Sandwich is flavored with a sizzling hot sauce and spice blend that penetrate the crispy coating of the chicken, and then paired with a cool, herby, tangy sour cream ranch dressing. This iconic chicken sandwich is known for two things - heat & flavor!
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Ingredients
- 2 Chicken breasts
Marinade
- Salt and pepper
Egg mix (for dredging)
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup buttermilk (or milk with ½ tbsp vinegar)
- 1- 2 tbsp Sriracha
Flour mix
- 1 ½ cups AP flour
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp ground pepper
Hot Sauce
- ¼ cup butter melted
- 2 tbsp bacon fat or use all butter, or all lard
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp paprika use 2 tbsps, if you're only using 1 tbsp cayenne pepper
- 2 ½ tbsp cayenne pepper use much less if you cannot handle spice (adjust to your preference)
- ½ tsp cumin
- 1 tsp allspice
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp black pepper
- Salt to taste
- Oil for deep frying
Sandwich
- 4 brioche buns or 8 thick sandwich slices. Toasted lightly
- Dill pickles
- Shredded red cabbage and carrots for the colesalw optional
- Ranch dressing or sour cream ranch see below for recipe
Sour Cream Ranch
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tbsp chopped dill
- 1 tbsp chopped chives
- 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp paprika
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
Chicken marinade
- Halve the two chicken breast pieces and pound each piece until it's about 1 cm thick.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of each piece.
Hot and Spicy Fried Chicken
- Mix the ingredients for the egg mix (for dredging). Set aside.
- Mix the ingredients for the flour mix. Set aside.
- Take a piece of chicken and coat it with the flour mix. Then dip it in the egg mix to coat and once more in the flour mix to coat.
- Set it on a wire rack (or on a plate that's sprinkled with flour).
- Heat the oil to about 380°F in a deep, heavy bottomed saucepan.
- Fry the chicken pieces (I only fry 2 pieces at a time to prevent overcrowding) for about 6 minutes, until the chicken turns golden brown and the internal temperature is at about 165°F.
- Place the chicken on a wire rack (the chicken can also be kept in a warm oven to keep it warm).
- Brush the hot sauce generously over the fried chicken.
Hot sauce
- Make this before frying the chicken, but keep it warm. Place all the ingredients for the hot sauce in a small saucepan and heat over medium heat to melt the butter and mix all the ingredients to form a paste. If needed, add just the smallest amount of water to make into a thick brushable paste.
- Once all ingredients are mixed, keep it warm until the chicken is fried.
Sour Cream Ranch
- Place all the ingredients in a small food processor and pulse to mix well. Add salt and pepper to taste (add more lemon juice if needed too).
- Optional - mix some of the dressing with shredded cabbage and carrots to make a coleslaw.
Hot and Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwiches
- Place one piece of spicy fried chicken on a burger bun. Top with dill pickles and sour cream ranch dressing and serve with coleslaw.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sandwich | Calories: 889kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 40g | Fat: 52g | Saturated Fat: 27g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 322mg | Sodium: 1229mg | Potassium: 706mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 3823IU | Vitamin C: 15mg | Calcium: 159mg | Iron: 4mg