Chicken Fried Chicken With Chorizo Gravy

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This popular, hearty sheet astatine Dove’s Luncheonette is an outstanding and archetypal instrumentality connected chicken-fried steak. The fortunate assemblage you’re serving won’t request overmuch else. The look has respective steps, which are not hard and tin beryllium done implicit a time oregon two.

At the restaurant, cook Dennis Bernard serves the chickenhearted boneless and somewhat butterflied. But helium prefers it cooked connected the bone, for much flavor. If you take to usage boneless/butterflied chickenhearted thighs successful this recipe, trim the frying clip arsenic needed.

You’ll request an instant-read thermometer for monitoring the frying lipid and the chicken; a splatter surface for the cookware is helpful, too.

The chickenhearted needs to beryllium brined successful the refrigerator for 3 hours. The drained, brined chickenhearted needs to remainder successful the refrigerator, uncovered, overnight. The gravy is champion made conscionable earlier serving.

Adapted from Dennis Bernard, cook de cuisine astatine Dove’s Luncheonette successful Chicago.

Ingredients

For the brine

  • 1 gallon acold water
  • 1 cupful kosher salt
  • 1/4 cupful positive 2 tablespoons honey
  • 12 bay leaves
  • 1 caput of garlic, smashed
  • 2 tablespoons full achromatic peppercorns
  • 1 tiny clump caller rosemary
  • 1 tiny clump caller thyme
  • 1 fistful flat-leaf parsley (with stems)
  • Finely grated zest and foodstuff of 2 lemons

For the chicken

  • 8 bone-in, skin-on chickenhearted thighs (see headnote; astir 5 pounds total)
  • Vegetable oil, for frying
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tablespoons ail powder
  • 2 tablespoons bulb powder
  • 1 spoon powdered chile de arbol
  • 1 spoon kosher salt
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 2 cups greenish peas, blanched (fresh oregon frozen/defrosted; spot NOTES)
  • 2 packed cups outpouring bulb bulbs, cooked (see NOTES)
  • Generous 1 splash champagne vinegar (see NOTES)

For the chorizo gravy

  • 1 1/2 pounds caller Chorizo Verde (see related recipe)
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, chopped into pieces
  • 1/2 cupful (about 2 ounces) flour
  • 2 1/2 to 3 cups regular oregon low-fat milk

Adapted from Dennis Bernard, cook de cuisine astatine Dove’s Luncheonette successful Chicago.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published June 9, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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