Breast vs. Thigh For The Ultimate Fried Chicken Sandwich

Babish talks us through getting the perfect fried chicken for your next sandwich.

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– Chicken breast versus chicken thigh. Perfectly viable options for a fried chicken sandwich. What you’re gonna get over here with the chicken thigh is you’re gonna get a really moist, more chicken flavor forward patty. This is a great option. Next up, the breast. This has no fat content, virtually no flavor content.

If you overcook this by a whisper, it’s gonna cook up really, really dry. That being said, deep frying is an ideal environment to cook chicken breast because it’s getting cooked quickly and at not too crazy a temperature. If you just drop this straight in oil, it will be terrible.

With the breading, it’s got this shell around it that’s going to keep it from getting stringy and dry and you’re gonna end up with a moist, juicy piece of chicken.