Good Kentucky Fried Chicken imitation recipes

Damn KFC is expensive, and not at all close to Sendling in Munich, so I have spent a few weeks researching how to make it at home!

I read that a food scientist had run some KFC through a LC-Mass spectroscopy machine, and found that instead of 11 herbs and spices, KFC is actually just salt, pepper and MSG!
So, the real trick is pressure frying the chicken, which keeps it moist on the inside, but crispy on the outside. Unfortunately, a pressure fryer is the size of a dishwasher, and costs about 1500 euro...

Anyway, here is my own KFC recipe, that I think tastes as good as the real thing, for waaay less cash! It took about 5 attempts to get it right, so I hope you like it.

Ingredients:

1 kilo of chicken, cut into kfc-like pieces
500ml plain flour
6 tps salt
3 tps MSG (buy it from an asia markt, its called accent of flavor enhancer)
3 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tps paprica
400ml milk
1 egg

So, mix 2 tps of salt, the milk and eggs together, and let the chicken pieces soak in the mix for about an hour. Then mix the flour, salt, msg, pepper, garlic and paprica together in a really big mixing bowl.

Take about 2 tbsp of the mix and spread it out over some baking paper or foil etc. Then, take the chicken pieces one at a time, and drop them into the mixing bowl, after letting most of the milk mix drip off first.

Roll the chicken in the mix, then place it on the paper. Once all the pieces are done, there should be lots of milk left, so, quickly dip the first piece in again, and reroll in flour for a second coat.

Now, set your oven for 175C, and heat up a pot with oil to deep fry the chicken. By now the juice from the chicken should have soaked out of the meat, and the flour mix should be all sticky, and not powdery.

Fry each piece for about a minute, or until it is JUST a bit golden, NOT kfc coloured! Then throw it in the oven, and repeat until its all cooked.

It takes about 30-40 minutes to cook it all, depending on the thickness of the pieces, and it will brown up nicely. It is not so cruchy, but has the perfect kfc taste, and its sticky enough to be finger licking good!

Enjoy!

Drooling on keyboard...

Its pretty cheap, I think you can get a kilo of fake KFC out of this recipe for about 5 euro all up...

I'm usually pretty broke, so I buy Aldi haenchen shenkel (sic?), you know, chicken thighs, for about 3 euro a kilo. I usually debone them first, cause they cook heaps faster, and you get more surface area, which mean more delicious kfc batter per kilo!

I forgot, but let as much oil drip off the chicken as you can before it goes in the oven, or the batter gets too sticky and can fall off the chicken.

Wait a bit for the amount of flour though! That salt etc is right, but I use my coffee cup to measure the flour, and now I'm thinking the amount I wrote is wrong

I will remeasure tonight and post the exact amount tomorrow!

OK, make it 400ml of plain flour, and make sure the teaspoons are a bit heaped!

hmmmmm, I reread my post, and sometimes i wrote tps and sometimes tsp, but they are all heaped teaspoons!

Could the editor join this with the post above about the flour? thanks

Also often called "Vei Tsin gourmet powder".

its also awesome for when you make cheesy macaroni...

*giggle* kfc-like pieces...

If you're astonishingly lazy, Leimer Panat Paniermehl doesn't taste far off KFC to be honest.
You could add a little paprika? It's an all-in-one mix, just wet your meat pieces and dip into the dry mix. No need to use a three plate system (egg > flour > breadcrumbs) and more commonly used than you'd ever imagine.

And you can even buy it in the UK.

Don't you have to drop it on the floor, pick it up, dust it off and put it in a box, before eating? That's what my mates used to do when they worked in a KFC.

Yeah... and you forgot to add the "Bland cardboard flavour enhancer" too!

maybe, but my recipes really tastes like kfc... the paprika is mostly for colouring, and I find the garlic helps too.

crap, I forgot an ingredient!

add one teaspoon of finely ground rosemary!!!

This is good comedy.

ahhh crap...

now that Allershausen and SpiderPig have joined, my poor KFC thread is going to be the laughingstock of Toytown...

It's more you forgetting ingredients, which you forgot to forget this time.

hey, I only forgot 1 ingredient! the other stuff was more... hmmm, forgetting how much of the ingredient to use, which is someting completely different.
Anyway, a good cook can always improvise

You mention that it does not turn out quite as crunchy - a second, brief deep fry at a higher temp will sort that problem out.

as will napalm "theres nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning"

For the truly authentic KFC taste you need to track down a few of these:

Problem solved!