Fairy Bell's Fried Chicken

Total Time: 24 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 chicken, cut up
• salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 cups flour
• salt and pepper
• vegetable oil

Recipe

• 1 rinse chicken and place in a large baking dish or ziploc bag.
• 2 cover with water and sprinkle with salt.(approx. 1 tbs per 3 lbs of chicken).
• 3 refrigerate overnight.
• 4 drain, rinse, and pat dry.
• 5 in a shallow bowl, beat eggs with buttermilk.
• 6 in a separate shallow bowl, combine flour with salt and pepper to taste. (here is where i either add just salt and lots of pepper, or i use emeril's creole seasonings, from this site).
• 7 drain chicken pieces and dredge in egg mixture, then flour mixture.
• 8 in a heavy large skillet over high heat, pour enough oil to cover chicken.
• 9 heat until flour sprinkled in the pan causes grease to splatter.
• 10 turn heat to medium.
• 11 add chicken, and fry chicken, uncovered, until brown on one side, 5-8 minutes.
• 12 turn chicken to brown on the other side. larger pieces will take longer.
• 13 remove and drain on paper towels.