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Nashville Hot Chicken Whole Chicken
Ingredients
  • Brine
  • 6 cups water on stove top with 1 cup of salt, ¼ cup cayenne, 4 tbsp smoked paprika, 4 tbsp ghost pepper powder, 3 jalapeños, 4 habaneros. Heated to just before boiling and stirred until salt dissolved. Let fully cool.
  • Added 3 cups cold water, 3 cups pickle juice from jar of Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit pickle chips, 6 cups ice, 6 cloves garlic, two halved lemon, and one Carolina reaper.
  • Fully submerged for 2 days.
  • Rub
  • 1 cup cayenne pepper
  • 3 tbsp smoked paprika
  • 3 tbsp ground ghost pepper
  • 3 tbsp garlic powder
  • 3 tbsp chili powder
  • 2 sticks of melted butter
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
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