Oven Fried Chicken
Love fried chicken but hate frying food at home?! This Oven Fried Chicken is perfeclty crispy, juicy and super flavorful. Perfectly spiced and super tender from a buttermilk marinade.
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
For buttermilk marinade:
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 2 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 tsp. paprika
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- 1 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. cayenne pepper
For fried chicken:
- 2.5-3 lbs. bone-in chicken
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp. kosher salt
- 2 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. cayenne pepper
- 2 tsp. garlic powder
- 2 tsp. onion powder
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- Nonstick cooking spray
Instructions
- Whisk together marinade ingredients. Add chicken to a plastic bag or large container with a lid. Pour buttermilk mixture over the chicken and stir to coat. Refrigerate for 4 hours or up to overnight. The longer the better.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a shallow bowl or pie plate, stir together flour, kosher salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder and onion powder.
- Grab a large plate, set aside. Remove chicken from buttermilk mixture, let excess drip off. Add to flour mixture and coat. Press gently to ensure it's coated. Set on plate. Repeat with remaining chicken.
- Place butter on large rimmed baking sheet. Place in oven and allow butter to melt, this will only take a minute. Remove baking sheet from oven and move around to make sure butter coats the whole thing. Place coated chicken on the baking sheet, skin side down. Spray top and sides of chicken with nonstick spray. Bake in oven for 25 minutes, flip then bake another 20 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F. If chicken pieces are large, it may take longer. If chicken starts to brown too much, cover lightly with foil for remaining baking time.