Tingling Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich
Emmy Squared’s hot chicken crosses Nashville with Sichuan: crispy breaded chicken in a Sichuan-Nashville hot coating, with radishes and Alabama white sauce on a toasted pretzel bun. The “tingling” is Sichuan pepper, which numbs as much as it burns, so the heat feels different from a straight cayenne hot chicken. The radishes and tangy white sauce cool it down. A double-stack version is available.
The story
Nashville hot chicken comes with a famous origin story: Thornton Prince, the tale goes, was served fried chicken loaded with pepper by a girlfriend tired of his late nights, liked it, and by the mid-1930s was selling his own version with his brothers in Nashville. Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, run by his great-niece André Prince Jeffries since 1980, keeps it going. Emmy Squared, a New York pizza restaurant known for Detroit-style square pies, adds Sichuan pepper, whose numbing tingle is the signature of the cooking of China’s Sichuan province.
What’s inside
- crispy breaded chicken in Sichuan-Nashville hot coating
- radishes
- Alabama white sauce
- toasted pretzel bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Tingling Nashville 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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About Emmy Squared
Emmy Squared belongs to the Pizza Loves Emily family of restaurants, founded by Emily Hyland and chef Matthew Hyland, with partners Howard Greenstone and Ken Levitan. The family’s restaurant Emily, in New York’s West Village, made its name with pizza and with a burger: the Emmy Burger, a double stack of dry-aged beef with a gochujang sauce on a pretzel bun, which became one of New York’s most talked-about burgers.
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