KFC

Pandora:

I got this "mock-up" of theKFC Original recipe chicken from a friend.
Living here in the states, it's easy to get my hands on the real thing, but
this comes pretty darn close!

I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa ;-)

2 Whole Chickens
1 Cup Flour (AP)
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. Accent Flavor Enhancer
1/2 tsp. Thyme
1 Tbsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1 Tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. celery salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
3-4 eggs, beaten (keep in bowl for dipping)

1. Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl.
2. Clean and disjoint chicken.
3. Dip each piece of chicken into egg mix, then roll in flour mix.
4. Cook in pressure cooker at 350degrees F, 4 minutes for wings, 6 minutes
for pieces, 8 minutes for thighs, or until chicken is golden brown and
cooked thoroughly.
5. Follow instructions on pressure cooker to release pressure and remove
chicken.
6. Drain pieces on paper towels.

Serves 8-10

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Pandora said:

Hello my friends. My Pc is working *NOW*, so I take advantage to ask you
something :
I know that the recipe of KFC is a secret. I would like to know (because
an
Italian friend asked me) if anyone has tried to reproduce it with
success.
If yes, could you please give me the recipe?

It is more a matter of the method of cooking than their secret ingredients
IIRC
is 11 secret herbs and spices. I remember KFC being really good when I
was a
kid, but from the early 70s it went down hill. I used to eat occasionally
at a
family run restaurant that served broasted chicken, a patented process
similar
to the one KFC uses. You could experiment with the coating and probably
come
up with something better than KFC, but the essential thing is the cooker,
a
pressure fryer.

Pressure fryer! I don't have such a thing! We haven't in Italy! I have only
an electric fryer but without pressure.
Pandora

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Thank you! Cheesecake lady! It seams simply! I could try also this!
Many thanks!
Pandora
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Pandora:

I got this "mock-up" of theKFC Original recipe chicken from a friend.
Living here in the states, it's easy to get my hands on the real thing,
but this comes pretty darn close!

I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa ;-)

2 Whole Chickens
1 Cup Flour (AP)
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. Accent Flavor Enhancer
1/2 tsp. Thyme
1 Tbsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1 Tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. celery salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
3-4 eggs, beaten (keep in bowl for dipping)

1. Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl.
2. Clean and disjoint chicken.
3. Dip each piece of chicken into egg mix, then roll in flour mix.
4. Cook in pressure cooker at 350degrees F, 4 minutes for wings, 6 minutes
for pieces, 8 minutes for thighs, or until chicken is golden brown and
cooked thoroughly.
5. Follow instructions on pressure cooker to release pressure and remove
chicken.
6. Drain pieces on paper towels.

Serves 8-10

Pandora said:

Pressure fryer! I don't have such a thing! We haven't in Italy! I have only
an electric fryer but without pressure.
Pandora

Sorry, but that is the way they do it. Some people think that they can do it by
putting oil in a pressure cooker, but pressure cooker manufacturers strongly
recommend they not do that.

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Hello my friends. My Pc is working *NOW*, so I take advantage to ask

you

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something :
I know that the recipe of KFC is a secret. I would like to know

(because

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an

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Italian friend asked me) if anyone has tried to reproduce it with

success.

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If yes, could you please give me the recipe?

Don't know how much of a "secret" it is -

1) In some of my old cookbooks from the 30s and 40s, there are recipes

for

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"Kentucky fried chicken", and they were published back when Harlan

Sanders

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was just a pup - and

2) in the late 40's and 50's, pressure-cooked-in-heated-oil chicken

places

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were all the rage, and those chicken cookers popped up in commercial
kitchens all over the place.

In short -

Use a tiny bit of onion and a tiny bit of garlic sauteed in oil with a
little ham fat, like you are getting the oil-base ready for a roux -

just

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enough of each so you can't taste any, as they used to say, and you'll
probably be close enough in flavor.

To infuse the chicken with flavored liquid, pressure cook the chicken in

a

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little water containing the above and a dash of celery salt and a bit of

bay

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leaf - (enough bay leaf to take out any "blood smell" but not enough to
flavor the chicken with bay).

(BTW - now you can store it in the refrig until you finish it.)

To finish it, coat it by dipping it in (egg optional)

/"baking-powdered-

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flour" and finish it quickly in a deep fryer or a hot skillet or hot

oven.

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What, no 11 herbs and spices?

Not in any of the recipes in my old cookbooks -

And I'd be hard pressed to think of what flavors are actually in KFC -
1. salt
2. pepper
3. bay
4. onion
5. I am pretty sure I taste garlic or a garlic-clone
6. rosemary, maybe?
7. sage, maybe?
8. Coca cola?
9. ??
10??
11 ??

grease ?
oil ?
liquid fat ?
chicken fat ?
light oil ?
oily oil?

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:23:17 +0100, "Pandora" <[email hidden]>

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to the one KFC uses. You could experiment with the coating and probably
come
up with something better than KFC, but the essential thing is the cooker,
a
pressure fryer.

Pressure fryer! I don't have such a thing! We haven't in Italy! I have only
an electric fryer but without pressure.
Pandora

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Don't try this at home! AFAIK, these cookers are not available for
home use in the US either.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Cheesecake Lady said:

Pandora:

I got this "mock-up" of theKFC Original recipe chicken from a friend.
Living here in the states, it's easy to get my hands on the real thing, but
this comes pretty darn close!

I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa ;-)

2 Whole Chickens
1 Cup Flour (AP)
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. Accent Flavor Enhancer
1/2 tsp. Thyme
1 Tbsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1 Tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. celery salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
3-4 eggs, beaten (keep in bowl for dipping)

1. Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl.
2. Clean and disjoint chicken.
3. Dip each piece of chicken into egg mix, then roll in flour mix.
4. Cook in pressure cooker at 350degrees F, 4 minutes for wings, 6 minutes
for pieces, 8 minutes for thighs, or until chicken is golden brown and
cooked thoroughly.
5. Follow instructions on pressure cooker to release pressure and remove
chicken.
6. Drain pieces on paper towels.

Serves 8-10

Will it get crispy in a pressure cooker? What about psi? This must
be a new-style pressure cooker because the old ones I've used only
have pressure control (if anything), not temperature control.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Cheesecake Lady said:

Pandora:

I got this "mock-up" of theKFC Original recipe chicken from a friend.
Living here in the states, it's easy to get my hands on the real thing, but
this comes pretty darn close!

I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa ;-)

2 Whole Chickens
1 Cup Flour (AP)
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. Accent Flavor Enhancer
1/2 tsp. Thyme
1 Tbsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1 Tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. celery salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
3-4 eggs, beaten (keep in bowl for dipping)

1. Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl.
2. Clean and disjoint chicken.
3. Dip each piece of chicken into egg mix, then roll in flour mix.
4. Cook in pressure cooker at 350degrees F, 4 minutes for wings, 6 minutes
for pieces, 8 minutes for thighs, or until chicken is golden brown and
cooked thoroughly.

Is this a pressure cooker or pressure fryer? All the instructions I
have for a pressure cooker require some type of liquid and the cooking
is in pounds pressure for a given amount of time, not in degrees. Could
you please clarify.

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5. Follow instructions on pressure cooker to release pressure and remove
chicken.
6. Drain pieces on paper towels.

Serves 8-10

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:47:01 +0100, "Pandora" <[email hidden]>

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Hello my friends. My Pc is working *NOW*, so I take advantage to ask you
something :
I know that the recipe of KFC is a secret. I would like to know (because an
Italian friend asked me) if anyone has tried to reproduce it with success.
If yes, could you please give me the recipe?
TIA
Pandora

I have not tried this Pandora but here is a link to a website claiming
this recipe for KFC:
http://www.copykat.com/asp/copykatrecipe.asp?recipe=754

Please let me know how it comes out!

Bill

Dave Smith said:

Pandora said:

Pressure fryer! I don't have such a thing! We haven't in Italy! I have only
an electric fryer but without pressure.
Pandora

Sorry, but that is the way they do it. Some people think that they can do it by
putting oil in a pressure cooker, but pressure cooker manufacturers strongly
recommend they not do that.

Shudder! This is why I asked about the recipe posted saying to use a
pressure cooker. I can't imagine doing this and IMO it would be a very,
very foolish thing to do!

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:08:02 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito <[email hidden]>

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Anything would be better...the stuff is almost tasteless. Broasting is the
only worth while thing done to KFC.

you're just jealous...
http://www.yum.com/default.asp

Bill wrote on 29 Jan 2006 in rec.food.cooking

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:08:02 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito <[email hidden]>

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Anything would be better...the stuff is almost tasteless. Broasting
is the only worth while thing done to KFC.

you're just jealous...
http://www.yum.com/default.asp

Yeah that's it I'm jealous. I just can't make food taste as bland as KFC
and it irks me something fierce...

--
The eyes are the mirrors....
But the ears...Ah the ears.
The ears keep the hat up.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bill said:

I have not tried this Pandora but here is a link to a website claiming
this recipe for KFC:
http://www.copykat.com/asp/copykatrecipe.asp?recipe=754

Please let me know how it comes out!

Holy hypertension, Batman! That recipe has a [censored] of sodium in it.
Salt, seasoned salt, MSG, dried chicken broth. Yikes.

I don't know if you could really duplicate KFC at home. From what I
remember, the restaurants use a special pressurized deep fat frier.
This probably helps to fully saturate the meat with grease.

Mea culpa - I've been known (on rare occassions) to eat KFC. But it's
definitely not health food.

--
Julian Vrieslander

Julian Vrieslander said:

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Bill said:

I have not tried this Pandora but here is a link to a website claiming
this recipe for KFC:
http://www.copykat.com/asp/copykatrecipe.asp?recipe=754

Please let me know how it comes out!

Holy hypertension, Batman! That recipe has a [censored] of sodium in it.
Salt, seasoned salt, MSG, dried chicken broth. Yikes.

I don't know if you could really duplicate KFC at home. From what I
remember, the restaurants use a special pressurized deep fat frier.
This probably helps to fully saturate the meat with grease.

Mea culpa - I've been known (on rare occassions) to eat KFC. But it's
definitely not health food.

Once a year or so, when my sister and I are left alone by our SO's we'll go
get some ginormous amount of KFC with all the sides and watch movies and pig
out. I can tell you this, though, either they've changed or my perceptions
have. I'm to the point where all I want is the cole slaw.

--
..:Heather:.
www.velvet-c.com
Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp!

"The Bubbo" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Julian Vrieslander wrote:

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Mea culpa - I've been known (on rare occassions) to eat KFC. But it's
definitely not health food.

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Once a year or so, when my sister and I are left alone by our SO's we'll
go
get some ginormous amount of KFC with all the sides and watch movies and
pig
out. I can tell you this, though, either they've changed or my perceptions
have. I'm to the point where all I want is the cole slaw.

I used to get the bucket, 12 pieces, I'd eat about half of it, no lie.
Those were the days, I could get away with it and it was before
the extra crispy days, back when kentucky fried chicken stilled
owned it, I guess. Boy, that was fun.

No, it's not health food, anyone who thinks that should be
beaten about the head and neck with a drumstick. Extra
crispy.

I still have it once in a blue moon ... I dislike their mashed
potatoes (if they can legally be called that) but I like the
cole slaw. Perhaps I'll grab a bucket later this week.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

"The Bubbo" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I used to get the bucket, 12 pieces, I'd eat about half of it, no lie.
Those were the days, I could get away with it and it was before
the extra crispy days, back when kentucky fried chicken stilled
owned it, I guess. Boy, that was fun.

No, it's not health food, anyone who thinks that should be
beaten about the head and neck with a drumstick. Extra
crispy.

I still have it once in a blue moon ... I dislike their mashed
potatoes (if they can legally be called that) but I like the
cole slaw. Perhaps I'll grab a bucket later this week.

nancy

Hmmm, I'm thinking I should find out when my sister has a free evening...

--
..:Heather:.
www.velvet-c.com
Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp!

Curly Sue said:

Cheesecake Lady said:

Pandora:

I got this "mock-up" of theKFC Original recipe chicken from a friend.
Living here in the states, it's easy to get my hands on the real thing, but
this comes pretty darn close!

I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa ;-)

2 Whole Chickens
1 Cup Flour (AP)
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. Accent Flavor Enhancer
1/2 tsp. Thyme
1 Tbsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1 Tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. celery salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
3-4 eggs, beaten (keep in bowl for dipping)

1. Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl.
2. Clean and disjoint chicken.
3. Dip each piece of chicken into egg mix, then roll in flour mix.
4. Cook in pressure cooker at 350degrees F, 4 minutes for wings, 6 minutes
for pieces, 8 minutes for thighs, or until chicken is golden brown and
cooked thoroughly.
5. Follow instructions on pressure cooker to release pressure and remove
chicken.
6. Drain pieces on paper towels.

Serves 8-10

Will it get crispy in a pressure cooker? What about psi? This must
be a new-style pressure cooker because the old ones I've used only
have pressure control (if anything), not temperature control.

Pressure control is temperature control. As you increase pressure, you
increase the boiling point of water. At regular atmospheric pressure,
foods containing water will only heat to 212 F (at sea level, slightly
lower at higher elevations). At 15 pounds pressure, they can get
significantly hotter. The pressure control increases the vapor
pressure of the air in the cooker, supressing boiling.

Still, if this person is suggesting that you put oil into a pressure
cooker, drop in chicken and seal it and heat it, I wouldn't do it
unless you're not bothered by the idea of third degree burns and
possibly death. As hot as you're going to need to get to to fry is WAY
hotter than a regular pressure cooker is designed to handle, and most
likely as soon as frying starts there will be so much vapor pressure
from the steam exuded by the chicken that it'll just blow out the
safety valve. If not, your other worry should be that the rubber seal
will melt at those temperature.

The bottom line is DON'T DO IT. If you want to drop $250-$500, you can
get a real pressure fryer.

--Bryan

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Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

On 29 Jan 2006 13:29:34 -0800, "BoboBonobo" <[email hidden]>

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Curly Sue wrote:

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Will it get crispy in a pressure cooker? What about psi? This must
be a new-style pressure cooker because the old ones I've used only
have pressure control (if anything), not temperature control.

Pressure control is temperature control. As you increase pressure, you
increase the boiling point of water. At regular atmospheric pressure,
foods containing water will only heat to 212 F (at sea level, slightly
lower at higher elevations). At 15 pounds pressure, they can get
significantly hotter. The pressure control increases the vapor
pressure of the air in the cooker, supressing boiling.

What I meant by temperature control is the ability to sense and
maintain temperature. The pressure cookers I've used only have
pressure regulators, i.e., there is no thermal detection or readout.
I understand the new (probably more expensive) pressure cookers are
more advanced but I've never seen one so I don't know what sort of
mechanisms they have.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

As far as the recipe I posted, I simply copied it from my friend. The
recipe doesn't say anything about putting oil in the pressure cooker, Go-
knows, I wouldn't!!

I recently mixed the flour mixture up, coated some chicken wings & then
BAKED them in the oven at 350.

Turned out pretty good, not oily like KFC's, but pretty darn close in
taste ---- but less the huge amounts of salt & oil.

I am completely unfamiliar with the pressure fryer. Have actually never
seen one. Besides, my fortay is baking (sweets), not chicken.

Just thought I'd help Pandora out with a recipe!

Lisa ;-)

Cheesecake Lady said:

As far as the recipe I posted, I simply copied it from my friend. The
recipe doesn't say anything about putting oil in the pressure cooker, Go-
knows, I wouldn't!!

I recently mixed the flour mixture up, coated some chicken wings & then
BAKED them in the oven at 350.

Turned out pretty good, not oily like KFC's, but pretty darn close in
taste ---- but less the huge amounts of salt & oil.

I am completely unfamiliar with the pressure fryer. Have actually never
seen one. Besides, my fortay is baking (sweets), not chicken.

Just thought I'd help Pandora out with a recipe!

Here's a description, $371 including shipping:
http://www.accuproinc.com/magefesa.htm

I covet this item.

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Lisa ;-)

--Bryan