BBC Food - Recipes - Southern-fried buttermilk chicken with tomato salsa

Ingredients

• 400ml/14fl oz buttermilk
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 whole chicken , jointed, then cut into 10 portions
• 125g/4½oz plain flour
• 1 unwaxed lemon , finely grated zest only
• 1½ tsp smoked hot paprika
• 1½ tsp English mustard powder
• 1½ tsp celery salt
• 1½ tsp dried thyme
• 1½ tsp dried oregano
• 2 tsp cracked black pepper corns
• vegetable oil , for shallow frying
• 90g/3¼oz caster sugar
• 300g/10½oz tomatoes , finely chopped
• 2 red chillies , finely chopped
• 300g/10½oz tinned sweetcorn , drained and rinsed
• 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1 lime , juice only
• 2 tbsp roughly chopped fresh flatleaf parsley leaves
• salt and freshly ground black pepper