I do my best to eat healthy as much as I can, but you know, there are times when I just crave a good ol’ piece of fried chicken and I decide not to deny myself the sinful pleasure. Serve it up with mashed potatoes and green beans and you just can’t go wrong. In developing this recipe, I found that adding packets of blue cheese salad dressing mix to the flour coating yields a wonderful zing to the end product. I hope you enjoy it. Now off for a few extra minutes on the treadmill…..but it was all worth it!
Blue Cheese Fried Chicken
Author: Gary@ The Spice Kit Recipes
Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- Chicken (bone in)
- 2 drumsticks
- 2 thighs
- 1 full breast cut into quarters
- Coating
- 3 cups flour
- 4 eggs
- 3 Tbsp milk
- 1 tsp granulated garlic
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 (1.25 oz) packages of powdered blue cheese dressing mix
- 2 cups oil for frying
Instructions
- Place 1 cup of flour in bowl and 2 cups in a separate bowl.
- To the two cups of flour, add garlic, pepper, salt and dressing packets; mix well.
- Place eggs in their own bowl and add milk, scramble until combined.
- Dredge chicken pieces in plain flour until coated evenly.Then coat each piece in egg mixture and immediately dredge in seasoned flour and place on a plate.
- Place oil in a frying pan and season lightly with salt and pepper
- Heat oil on medium heat until hot.
- Place chicken in oil and fry until golden brown on all sides, about an hour, rotating every 10 minutes or so.
I want that fried chicken right now!!!
It was soooo yummy, Nolita! Try it!
Do you really fry the chicken for an hour?
Hi, Kandi. This is Gary from the Spice Kit Recipes; thanks for your question! When I fry chicken, I work low and slow. I perform a shallow pan fry on medium to medium low heat and I’m obsessed with making sure that every inch of the chicken is golden brown before I take it out of the pan. So….it ends up taking me close to an hour to get things the way I like them (50 mins or so). I find that this method allows for a crispy chicken without burning anything and without drying things out. But as with all of our recipes, I write the instructions based on the way I do things, which isn’t the only way. Feel free to prepare the chicken using your own methods and I’m sure you will get an excellent result!