Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, southern style brined chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Brined Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Southern Style Brined Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Brined Chicken:

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

Steps 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.

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