Recipe of Thomas Keller Southern Style Brined Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, southern style brined chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Brined Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Southern Style Brined Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have southern style brined chicken using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:

1. Get whole chicken (3-6 pounds)
2. Take stock pot
3. Prepare water (cool tap water)
4. Get regular table salt
5. Make ready packed dark brown sugar
6. Get garlic powder
7. Make ready onion powder
8. Get ground black pepper
9. Make ready lemon halved and squeezed into brine

Instructions to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:

1. Please refer to my Southern Style Brined Oven Roasted Crispy Chicken recipe as a basis on how to cook this.
2. Pour tap water and remaining ingredients into your stock pot. Stir and allow for the salt and sugar to dissolve. 10-20 minutes.
3. Add chicken and and allow to soak in brine for at least 2 hours refrigerated. Overnight is optimal.
4. If using boneless skinless breast or the like, 2-4 hours soaking is fine. Cook brined chicken as desired. Cut up and fried, roasted, smoked, grilled,etc. No matter how you choose to cook it, it makes a big difference taste wise. Enjoy
5. Feel free to add any herbs that you like. Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Oregano, Etc. Even add a bottle of your favorite beer. Have fun with it. This is also excellent for pork and turkey as well. There is no substitution for salt in this recipe.

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