Cajun brined fried chicken

Deep-fried chicken Southern-style is Cajun brined fried chicken of New Orleans Louisiana but also popular in Mississippi, Alabama.

Brining is a pretreatment in which the chicken is placed in a salt water solution known as brine. This produces a moist and well-seasoned bird. Normally, meat loses about 30 percent of its weight during cooking, but if you brine it first, you can reduce the moisture loss by as little as 15 percent.

This traditional Southern fried chicken recipes, are actually buttermilk fried chicken recipes. However, that is not the only way to make southern fried chicken. Instead of using buttermilk, they brine the chicken in a salt & sugar water.