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Hot Honey Fried Chicken

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Hot Honey Fried Chicken

Crispy fried chicken thighs drizzled with hot honey and pickles — sweet heat perfection. Marinating the chicken in buttermilk and hot sauce for two hours tenderises the meat and builds spice into it before it's even fried.

Total time
145 min
Prep
130 min
Cook
15 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
American
comfortfriedspicy

Ingredients

6boneless chicken thighs
1 cupbuttermilk
1 tbsphot sauce
1 ½ cupsflour
1 tspsmoked paprika
1 tspgarlic powder
½ tspcayenne
oilfor frying
¼ cuphoney
1 tspred pepper flakes
1 tspapple cider vinegar
dill pickle slicesto serve

Instructions

1

Marinate chicken in buttermilk and hot sauce 2 hours.

2

Dredge in seasoned flour.

3

Fry at 350°F until golden and cooked, about 8-10 min.

4

Warm honey with red pepper flakes and vinegar.

5

Drizzle hot honey over chicken; serve with pickles.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
454
Protein
15.1g
Fat
2.3g
Carbs
97.8g
Fiber
1.7g
Sodium
104mg

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