Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style brined chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Add the chicken pieces and toss and turn to coat. It's not a true Southern brine without a sweet tea liquid base. Our go-to brine for chicken, pork, and other meat consists of sweet tea, garlics cloves, peppercorns, and thyme sprigs.

Southern Style Brined Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Southern Style Brined Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern style brined chicken using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:

1. Take 1 whole chicken (3-6 pounds)
2. Take 8 quart stock pot
3. Take 1 gallon water (cool tap water)
4. Take 1/2 cup regular table salt
5. Get 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
6. Take 1 tbsp garlic powder
7. Prepare 1 tbsp onion powder
8. Get 1 tsp ground black pepper
9. Get 1 lemon halved and squeezed into brine

For the brine, in a small pot, heat water, vinegar, salt and sugar to dissolve and combine. When it comes to a low boil, remove from heat and add a few cups of ice to melt. Add the mixture to double-lined bags balanced in a large bowl, add a quart of buttermilk, herbs, bay leaves and garlic. As some one who has lived all across the South, from Texas, to Maryland, to South Florida, and all in between, I would like to think I'm an expert when it comes to southern fried chicken.

Instructions to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:

1. Please refer to my Southern Style Brined Oven Roasted Crispy Chicken recipe as a basis on how to cook this.
2. Pour tap water and remaining ingredients into your stock pot. Stir and allow for the salt and sugar to dissolve. 10-20 minutes.
3. Add chicken and and allow to soak in brine for at least 2 hours refrigerated. Overnight is optimal.
4. If using boneless skinless breast or the like, 2-4 hours soaking is fine. Cook brined chicken as desired. Cut up and fried, roasted, smoked, grilled,etc. No matter how you choose to cook it, it makes a big difference taste wise. Enjoy
5. Feel free to add any herbs that you like. Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Oregano, Etc. Even add a bottle of your favorite beer. Have fun with it. This is also excellent for pork and turkey as well. There is no substitution for salt in this recipe.

The brine in this recipe is composed of water, salt, brown sugar, summer savory (which is my favorite herb, but thyme can be substituted in a pinch) and granulated garlic. To make it, simply combine half of the water, the salt, sugar and seasonings and cook just until sugar and salt dissolve. Had folks coming over for a cookout - used the brine to make chicken kabobs. REALLY added a nice moisture to the chicken breast pieces. Southern-Style Buttermilk Fried Chicken Southern-Style Buttermilk Fried Chicken.

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