Ingredients

  • Chicken skin from 1 chicken, cut into 3-inch pieces
  • 3 cups cooking oil
  • 2 tablespoons kosher salt
  • Pinch cayenne pepper
  • Freshly cracked black pepper
  • Chicken salt rim
  • 1/2 ounce chilled vodka or tequila
  • 1 fresh oyster, shucked
  • 1 barspoon tomato juice
  • 1 dash hot sauce, such as Cholula
  • 1 lime
  • 1 barspoon crushed chicken crackling
  • 1 pinch minced chives

Method

  • To make the chicken salt rim, heat the cooking oil in a small saucepan until it reaches 300°F. Carefully deep fry chicken skin in batches until golden brown and crispy. Drain and cool. Reserve some chicken crackling for garnish.
  • In a spice grinder or mortar and pestle, grind enough chicken crackling to make 2 tablespoons. Combine with kosher salt, cayenne pepper, and freshly cracked black pepper to taste.
  • Run a wedge of lime along the rim of a Champagne flute. Press the flute into the chicken salt rim.
  • To make the oyster shooter, build layers in the flute in this order: vodka or tequila, raw oyster, tomato juice, hot sauce, 1 squeeze of lime juice. Garnish with chicken crackling and chives and serve cold.