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Skillet-Fried Chicken

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  • Brief Description

    Classic comfort food. Make our juicy fried chicken in less than an hour.

  • Main Ingredient

    Chicken

  • Category:  Poultry

  • Cuisine:  American

  • Prep Time:  10 min(s)

  • Cook Time:  45 min(s)

  • Recipe Type:  Public

  • Source:

    Betty Crocker

  • Tags:

    Quick & Easy

  • Notes:

    Lighten it up: For 11 grams of fat and 250 calories per serving, remove skin from chicken before cooking. Use only 2 tablespoons oil in step 2. To make Buttermilk Fried Chicken: Increase flour to 1 cup. Dip chicken into 1 cup buttermilk before coating with flour mixture.

  • Posted By:  deanna

  • Posted On:  Aug 23, 2013

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Ingredients:

  1. 1/2 cups - all-purpose flour
  2. 1 tablespoons - paprika
  3. 1 1/2 teaspoons - salt
  4. 1/2 teaspoons - pepper
  5. 3 1/2 pounds - cut-up whole chicken
  6. - Vegetable oil

Directions:

In shallow dish, mix flour, paprika, salt and pepper. Coat chicken with flour mixture.

In 12-inch nonstick skillet, heat oil (1/4 inch) over medium-high heat. Cook chicken in oil, skin sides down, about 10 minutes or until light brown on all sides; reduce heat to low. Turn chicken skin sides up.

Simmer uncovered about 20 minutes, without turning, until juice of chicken is clear when thickest part is cut to bone (170°F for breasts; 180°F for thighs and legs).


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