Ingredients
Wet Coating
- 2–3 eggs
- optional: hot sauce
- optional: sriracha
- optional: water
Dry Coating
- ~1 cup all-purpose flour
- ~1 tsp kosher salt, pepper, cayenne
- any other seasonings you want
Method
Prep
- Trim the chicken thighs
- Dry them with a paper towel
- Mix the flour and herbs and spices in a quarter sheet pan
- Whisk the eggs and hot sauces in a medium mixing bowl
- Line a baking tray with parchment or foil and top with a wire rack
Bread the chicken
- Dredge chicken thighs in flour
- Coat two times:
- Dip in egg wash and make sure it covers all the flour
- Dredge in flour
- Let rest on the tray in the fridge until ready to fry
Fry
- Add ~1cm of vegetable oil to a cast iron frying pan
- Bring (and maintain) oil temp to ~350°F
- Fry on each side until as brown as you like, ~5–7 minutes total
- Let cool on a clean wire rack lined with paper towel