The VERY Best Chicken Sandwich!

This guy swears a bit... but he sure does know how to cook stuff!

Ingredients

4 Chicken thighs deboned

2 cups Buttermilk

1/4 cup Frank's Hot Sauce 

1 tbsp pickle juice

Chicken batter

3 cups flour, divided

1 tsp cayenne pepper, divided 

2 tsp paprika, divided

2 tsp onion powder, divided 

1 tsp salt, divided 

1 tbsp baking soda, divided 

1 beer, or club soda

Cole Slaw

2 cups thinly sliced purple cabbage

2 tbsp Mayonnaise (not Miracle Whip)

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp vinegar

1 tbsp grainy mustard

Chicken Sauce

1/2 cups butter

1/2 cups Sriracha 

Sandwich Bun

Large hamburger bun, toasted

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Stuff you will need 

3 Mixing bowls

Whisk

Deep fat fryer 

Wire rack

Cookie sheet

Sauce pot

Quick read thermometer 

Tongs

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Directions

In a mixing bowl, marinade the chicken thighs with the buttermilk, Frank's Hot Sauce, and pickle juice, overnight.  Don't have time for that?  Marinade for 2 hours.

In the 2 remaining mixing bowls, add the divided batter ingredients and whisk.  To ONE of the bowls, add enough beer to make a thin batter. Drink the remainder of the beer.

Your chicken is going to go from the marinade, dry ingredients, wet batter, dry ingredients.  Transfer the chicken to a cookie sheet to rest for a few minutes. 

Make sure the cooking oil is 350 F.  Only cook two thighs at a time so that you don't cool off the oil.

Once the chicken is golden brown, use tongs to remove the chicken from the cooking oil.  Rest the chicken on an inverted wire rack on top of a cookie sheet.  Using your instant read thermometer, make sure the chicken is 165 F.

In your sauce pan, add the butter and Sriracha Sauce.  Heat till the butter is melted.

The Cole Slaw is easy, add all your ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix.

To make the very best chicken sandwich you will ever have...  on the bottom bun, add some Cole Slaw.  Dip and coat the chicken in the butter/Sriracha Sauce.  Transfer the chicken and rest on top of the Cole Slaw.  Put more Cole Slaw on top of the chicken.  Top the sandwich with the top bun.

Serve immediately!