Make Your Chicken Breading Actually Stick With One Extra Ingredient - Chowhound

Cornstarch is nearly pure starch — the key ingredient that allows flour to become sticky when mixed with moisture. By adding it to the flour mix you use for dredging your chicken, you can give its adhesiveness a huge upgrade. For every half cup of flour, adding about 2 teaspoons of cornstarch (8% to 10% of the flour's weight) is a great rule of thumb if you're planning on trying this trick. Advertisement But…