If you love home made fried chicken,it is hard to find 2.5 to 3 lb fryers. The one pound or more breasts are tough and tasteless. We cut them up and pound them out and marinate in lemon juice.
I do an overnight soak in buttermilk.
Then pan fry in a cast iron skillet.
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We buy all our chicken at Sprouts. Its like the chicken you got when you were a kid. And you can get the small ones. The taste and texture is great!
You are right and that’s only something a southern cook would probably know;) Your frying chickens need to be small to be good fryers. I learned that from my mother, and she learned it from her mother, on down. I like mine 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 lbs, (the smaller the better) but I can’t find chickens that small these days. The only place I see them are in the deli at the supermarket, and they order them specifically that size for the deli. I asked why they don’t order them for the meat section, but nobody could give me an answer. I only fry chicken once in a blue moon now, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.
I wonder where the colonel gets his chickens. Their chicken parts are the smallest in the business.
Piccata style?