Fried Chicken Caesar Sandwich

The best thing to be invented since, well, fried chicken. And caesar salad.

2 hours cook

Serves 4

Hugh Woodward

Ingredients

4chicken thighs, boneless and skinless

200mlbutter milk

2 tbsphot sauce

1 tbspflaked sea salt

200gplain flour

50g corn flour

1 tbspfine sea salt

2 litresfrying oil

100mlmayonnaise

4crushed anchovies

30ggrated parmesan, and more to finish

1 clovecrushed garlic

1 tspwhite wine vinegar

1cos lettuce

4ciabatta buns

This is a very simple twist, but don't let that fool you: it's one of the most delicious things we've tried for a long time. Something about crunchy, juicy and flavourful fried chicken meeting creamy, parmesan rich caesar sauce is absolute food heaven.

Method

Add the chicken thighs to the buttermilk, along with the hot sauce and salt. Leave to do its thing for at least an hour.

Whisk the flours together along with the sea salt and preheat the oil to 160°C. Take the marinade and splash it over the flour to create little pockets and subsequent craggly bits.

Dip the chicken in the flour and fry until golden, crisp and cooked through - roughly 8 minutes.

Whisk the mayonnaise and other sauce ingredients together, then divide the lettuce into leaves and toss it together, reserving some sauce for drizzling.

Toast the buns and built the burger - caesar sauce, chicken and lettuce. Finish with more parmesan sprinkles.