Spicy Pickle Chicken Salad with Chicken Skin Crackers – Garden & Gun

Ingredients

• 2 bone-in skin-on chicken breasts
• 2 garlic cloves, sliced
• 6 to 8 fresh basil leaves
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Kosher salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 celery stalks, trimmed and finely diced
• ½ small shallot, finely diced
• ½ cup spicy pickle chips (preferably Alabama-made Wickles), drained and diced
• 3 tablespoons diced pimientos, drained
• ⅓ cup roughly chopped toasted pecans
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons pickle juice
• 4 dashes of hot sauce
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 4 romaine lettuce leaves for garnish
• Skins from the roasted chicken breasts
• Cayenne pepper, to taste
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper