Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches are renowned for their juiciness and crisp, perfectly seasoned crust. However, Chick-Fil-A the establishment has also recently become notorious for making offensive anti-gay remarks. Whether you want to keep your food dollars elsewhere or not, we can all agree that making awesome chicken sandwiches at home is a good thing.


Serious Eats' J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has reverse engineered the Chick-Fil-A sandwich, which is composed of: "A juicy, salty, crisply fried chicken breast. A soft, sweet, buttered and toasted bun. Two dill pickle chips."

In his food lab, he painstakingly experiments with various combinations to find the exact seasoning mix, brand of pickles, and the perfect coating. The coating trick he finally found is one you could use to get extra crunchiness for all your frying needs:

By adding some of the milk mixture to the flour mixture and working it around with my fingers before I dip the chicken into it, I could create an extra crisp coating that fried up with enough nooks and crannies and make an English muffin hide with embarrassment.


Hit up the link below for the full recipe and lab experiment notes.

The Food Lab: How to Make a Chick-Fil-A Sandwich at Home | Serious Eats