Hot Chicken Sandwich
Black Tap’s nod to Nashville hot chicken: crispy chicken brushed with hot chili oil and a spicy dry rub, with kosher pickles, the house buttermilk dill dressing and parsley. The dill dressing is the cooling element and the pickles cut the oil. Properly hot by burger-bar standards.
The story
Nashville hot chicken has an origin story the Prince family still tells. Thornton Prince, the story goes, came home late once too often, and his girlfriend served him fried chicken loaded with extra pepper as revenge. He liked it, and by the mid-1930s he and his brothers were selling their own version at the BBQ Chicken Shack in Nashville; his great-niece André Prince Jeffries has run Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack since 1980. The dish stayed a local African American speciality for decades until KFC took Nashville Hot Chicken national in January 2016.
What’s inside
- crispy fried chicken
- hot chili oil
- spicy dry rub
- kosher pickles
- buttermilk dill dressing
- parsley
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Hot Chicken Sandwich yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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KFC Spicy Chicken Sandwich (Copycat)
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About Black Tap
Chris Barish, son of the Planet Hollywood founder, opened Black Tap in 2015 as a tiny 15-seat burger and craft beer bar in New York. It became famous almost overnight for something other than burgers: the CrazyShake, a towering milkshake loaded with cake, sweets and candy floss that turned the queue outside into a fixture of Instagram.
Around a dozen locations, from New York, Las Vegas and Anaheim to Singapore, Dubai, Geneva and Zürich.
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