Chicken Fried Chicken (2024)

by Tornadough Alli November 4, 2019 Updated October 17, 2020 93 Comments

Easy and delicious this Chicken Fried Chicken is a quick and flavorful dinnertime recipe that brings the whole family to the table, with minimal ingredients it’s a simple and comforting meal.

Chicken is a staple in our house hold and one of the main meats that we use in a lot of our dishes. I prefer chicken over pretty much every meat, but pretty much will eat anything if I have to.

This Chicken Fried Chicken is one of our families favorite dinnertime meal. We use our recipe for our Chicken Fried Steak and use it with chicken breasts instead!

Not only is it comforting, it is super easy to whip up and feeds a crowd. The golden and tasty chicken pieces are smothered in gravy and we like to serve ours with mashed potatoes on the side.

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:

• Minimal ingredients make it an easy recipe to whip up on weeknights, and it feeds a crowd.
• Using thin cut chicken is the key to get the right sized pieces without having to cut and trim anything.
• The country gravy uses the flavor of the cooking oil to kick it up a notch and gives it great flavor and texture.

This Chicken Fried Chicken recipe really is a fun and flavorful main dish that kills it every time we make it. It has become one of the most requested recipes lately, and for good reason!

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN, STEP BY STEP:

1. In a pie plate or large shallow bowl add your flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper and garlic powder and whisk until combined.
2. In another pie plate or large shallow bowl add your butter milk, hot sauce and egg.
3. Whisk until combined and the egg is really spread out, you want to make sure that the whites aren’t saturated in one area.
4. Take your chicken breast and first dip it in your flour mixture, coating all sides really well, pressing down to get the flour in there good.
5. Transfer over to your buttermilk mixture and again coat each side making sure that the flour is covered.
6. Lastly place back in your flour mixture and coat again pressing down to get a good coating on your chicken breast, then fry in oil heated to 325 degrees for 3-5 minutes on each side until done.

How easy can this get? Usually we make this Chicken Fried Chicken in a cast iron skillet with a few inches of oil, but we have also made in in our deep fryer and has worked out perfectly as well.

HOW TO MAKE COUNTRY GRAVY:

1. Using about 1/4 cup of your cooking oil add it to a heavy bottomed skillet and heat at medium heat.
2. Whisk in flour until combined and keep whisking for about 1 minute.
3. Slowly add in your milk a little at a time continually whisking until all lumps are gone and gravy has thickened up.
4. Add in salt and pepper to your liking.

We like to use the cooking oil from when we cook the chicken, but if you don’t want to use that, just melt the same amount of butter in a pan and make it that way, or if you keep a stock of bacon fat around you can use that as well.

If you are craving comfort this seriously is the recipe that you need to reach for! I mean seriously, deep fried chicken, gravy, how can you say no to that!

WHAT GOES GOOD WITH CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN?

There are so many things that go good with this Chicken Fried Chicken recipe, pretty much anything that you would serve with regular fried chicken would work perfectly some of our favorites you can see below.

• Mac and Cheese
• Cheddar Biscuits
• Mashed Potatoes
• Green Beans

These sides are perfect if you want to make a large family meal out of this recipe! Also, this is good for any time of year. While it truly is a comfort dish that we love in the cooler months, we make it all year long!

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN:

• You can use a regular deep fryer to make this instead of in a skillet.
• If you don’t want to use frying oil to make gravy, substitute butter or bacon grease.
• We use the thin cut chicken you can buy at the store, but you can use a regular chicken breast and slice it in half.
• Add more or less seasoning to the flour and gravy to your liking.

This Chicken Fried Chicken is one of the best comfort recipes that you’ll want to have on your menu line-up. Easy, flavorful and delicious.

If you like this recipe you might also like:

• Honey BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
• Ranch Baked Breaded Chicken
• Oven Fried Chicken

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