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Buttermilk Hot Sauce Brined Chicken

Name: Buttermilk Hot Sauce Brined Chicken
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 25 h 22 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups buttermilk; 1 1/2 cups cold water; 1/3 cup hot sauce; 3 tablespoons kosher salt; 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar; 3 garlic cloves, smashed; 4 to 5 pounds chicken breasts, thighs, and legs (skin on, bone-in); 1/2 teaspoon black pepper; 1/4 cup ketchup; 3 tablespoons hot sauce; 2 tablespoons melted salted butter; 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar; 2 teaspoons packed brown sugar

Buttermilk Hot Sauce Brined Chicken is a wonderfully juicy and spicy grilled chicken recipe.

Prep12 min
Cook1 hr 10 min
Total25 hr 22 min
Serves6

Buttermilk Hot Sauce Brined Chicken is a wonderfully juicy and spicy grilled chicken recipe.

Buttermilk Hot Sauce Brined Chicken on a blue plate.

This is maybe my favorite way to grill chicken and we eat alot of grilled chicken, especially during the summer months.

Brine Then Grill

The chicken is first brined in a mixture of buttermilk, hot sauce, kosher salt, a little brown sugar, and garlic. The chicken is left in the brine for 24 hours. The brining process not only flavors the chicken, it helps it cook up wonderfully juicy and moist.

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The chicken is then grilled over indirect heat for over an hour. Cooking it for a long time over indirect heat keeps it from drying out, but you do have to be patient.

Easy Spicy Sauce

The last few minutes of grilling the chicken is basted with an easy sauce made from ketchup, hot sauce, butter, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar. It’s a spicy, tangy finish for the chicken.