Your Liquor Cabinet Holds The Key To Crispy Fried Chicken

It's all too easy for your fried chicken to come out dense and chewy instead of light and crispy. To fix that, there's an ingredient you can add to the batter: A splash of vodka.

You want to reduce the amount of water and replace it with vodka. A good ratio is to add a couple of tablespoons of vodka for every cup of water or other liquids in your batter.

For dry rub marinades, adding an ounce of vodka should get you the same result. The end result is crispier, lighter chicken with stronger flavors brought out by the vodka.

Vodka has unique, slightly volatile properties which can help speed up and intensify the crisping and browning process on the crust

of your fried chicken.