Nashville Hot Chicken

A couple years ago I visited the Nashville, TN area.  I love to learn about and try the local specialties of places I visit, so in Nashville I discovered hot chicken  It was incredible.  I had to learn how to make it.  This isn't it exactly, but it's close.  I'll keep experimenting with it.  I think the flavor might be improved by making the spicy oil the day before to give the oil time to really absorb the flavors, but for now, this is pretty darn tasty.

This is a part of my series on making and using frozen breaded chicken cutlets.

Korean Fried Chicken

I love this spicy and sweet fried chicken.  It's one of my favorite meals.  It's a part of my series on making and using frozen breaded chicken cutlets.

So Much Fried Chicken

Chicken Milanese is one of the first meals I posted to this blog, and it's one that we have continued to enjoy.  Over the past couple years I've come to realize that I can do much more with a breaded chicken cutlet than just this one delicious meal.

It started when I ran across this recipe for  Korean Fried Chicken.  It looked incredible, and I had to try it.  Looking at the recipe I noticed that it started out very similar to the Chicken Milanese above with breaded chicken, although there were some minor differences in the breading mixtures.  After the chicken is breaded and fried it is dipped in a sweet and spicy sauce.

Then I visited Nashville, TN and tried its amazing hot chicken (spicy fried chicken).  I was sad that this deliciousness was only available in Nashville.  I resolved that I had to learn to make it.  When I looked into recipes for it I learned that chicken was breaded, fried and dipped in a spicy oil afterwards.  I realized I could make a generic, breaded chicken cutlet and use it in a variety of ways.