How To Make Fried Chicken & Waffles with Spicy Sorghum - Best Recipe | Charleston Magazine

Ingredients

• 2 cups buttermilk
• 1/4 cup sorghum
• 4 Tbs. kosher salt, divided
• 2 tsp. white pepper, divided
• 1 Tbs. hot sauce, preferably Frank’s
• 2 tsp. chopped fresh thyme, divided
• 2 tsp. chopped fresh sage, divided
• 8 chicken thighs, bone in and skin on
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
• Lard, preferably Armour brand
• 3 sprigs fresh thyme
• 3 sprigs fresh sage
• 5 cloves fresh garlic, crushed flat
• Sea salt
• 5 waffles (recipe follows)
• 11/2 cups spicy sorghum (recipe follows)
• 1 cup sorghum
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 2 Tbs. hot sauce, preferably Frank’s
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 2 Tbs. unsalted butter
• 1½ cups buttermilk
• 6 Tbs. unsalted butter, melted
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 tsp. kosher salt
• 11/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup corn meal
• 11/2 teaspoons instant yeast