Hattie's Southern Fried Chicken

Recipe courtesy Hattie's Restaurant, Executive Chef Jasper Alexander

Show: Throwdown with Bobby FlayEpisode: Fried Chicken

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (12)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(12)

Cook Time:
30 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
4 servings

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: 1 hr 0 min
Cook: 30 min
Total:: 1 hr 40 min

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Ingredients

1 (3 1/2 pound) chicken, cut into 8 pieces, rinsed and patted dry
1/2 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon kosher salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup vegetable oil, for frying

Directions

Put the chicken in a large baking dish and sprinkle on the pepper and salt. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Put the flour in a large, sturdy plastic bag. Add the chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat; shake off any excess flour.

In a large cast iron skillet, heat the oil until simmering. Add the chicken pieces and fry over moderate heat, turning until golden and cooked through, about 30 minutes, Lower the heat if the chicken gets too dark.

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recipe Hattie's Southern Fried Chicken
Heidi McMurray, PA 10-15-2009
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Don't Make This Recipe!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Dear Fellow Food and Flay Lovers, This is definately not Hattie's Fried Chicken recipe. The best fried chicken we mortals... can make at home is Alton's recipe. I went to Hattie's while on vacation this fall. I never thought chicken could be an out of body experience, BUT IT WAS! Shame on Food Network for not being honest. If I had a recipe as special as Hattie's Chicken I wouldn't share it either. In situations like this only Bobby's should be listed. GO TO HATTIES it is worth the trip! Leave it to Bobby to find "THE BEST" and be brave enough to go against them. Read more
recipe Hattie's Southern Fried Chicken
Very omaha, NE 08-13-2009
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You've got to be kidding!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

If you want to make really good fried chicken make Alton Browns. This recipe is a joke! I want my chicken to be juicy and... have a lot of flavor. This chicken will have neither. Read more
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Celisse Panorama City, CA 08-13-2009
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NOT the REAL Hattie chicken recipe... watch the episode so you know WHY...
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

I'm surprised that they put this fried chicken recipe on the site, but I'm NOT surprised by the rating it's received thus... far. I wouldn't doubt it's good, but the chef CLEARLY STATED on the show that he couldn't share the entire recipe because it's a secret family recipe & all he said was that there was salt & pepper in it. Poor choice on F.N's part to include it here; they gave an undoubtedly good food a bad rap by including it thereby allowing people to review it when they haven't watched the particular episode & get the whole story...Read more
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Karen Sparta, NJ 03-21-2009
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Hattie's Chicken Recipe as listeed on this site
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

I agree that this is not Hattie's recipe. First, the chef at Hatties said there were ingreidients that included salt and... pepper, but that there was a secret ingredient as well. When you look at the recipe and then at the chicken, it is clear that the pepper is not fresh ground black pepper, since there is no black anywhere in that fried chicken. I am thinking it is white pepper instead. Also, there is something green, we are guessing fresh Cilantro. We are trying the recipe tonight and we are adding Bisquick to the flour 1/3 to 1 cup of flour and adding fresh minced cilantro to the chicken with white pepper and salt. We will let you know how it turns out. BTW, Bobby Flay's recipe looked good, but if it was true Southern Fried Chicken, why add the honey/pepper glaze? Honey does belong with this dish, but on the biscuits, not on the chicken. My opinion.Read more
recipe Hattie's Southern Fried Chicken
Trish Cedar Hill, TX 01-04-2009
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Bobby's Recipe
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I think the recipes shown on this site are Bobby's recipe's that HE used on the throwdown NOT the recipe of the person he... challenged. When I looked up Red Velvet cake I noticed that it only called for one teaspoon of red food coloring. Bobby stated that he only used a little whereas The Cake Raven used a 1 oz bottle. Read more
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kat Saratoga Springs, NY 11-08-2008
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Hattie's rocks, but this recipe....?
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I grew up in the South and went to college in Saratoga Springs, and Hattie's fried chicken is some of the absolute best I've... ever had, but I have a hard time believing that this is really the recipe the useRead more