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If you are looking to impress your friends and family: Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe is a great option. Better than the original!

Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the most popular fast food chains in the world, with over 2,000 restaurants in over 50 countries.

The recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken is a secret, but this particular recipe is a copycat wannabe 🙂 and is made up of chicken & 11 herbs and spices. The ingredients are: salt, black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, dry thyme, dry oregano, dry rosemary, dry marjoram, dry sage, dry basil.

The chicken is usually breast leg or thigh, but you can also use chicken breast. The flour is used to coat the chicken and make it extra crispy. The eggs are beaten and then water is added to make a batter. The chicken is then deep-fried and the batter is used to coat the chicken.

photo with 2 plates one with fried chicken thighs and another one is decorative with a flower.

The secret to our Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe is the spices. The herbs and spices give the chicken a unique taste and make it very popular. The chicken is also very crispy and it is a good way to get your meat fix. If you are looking to impress your friends and family: Fried Chicken Recipe from Kentucky is a great option. Try this recipe today and comment bellow, tell us if you liked it!

Ingredients for Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe:

For the Chicken:

4-5 pieces of chicken, breast leg or thigh
2 cups flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water

11 herbs and spices as follows:
1 Tablespoon Salt
1 Teaspoon black pepper
1 Teaspoon onion powder
1 Teaspoon garlic powder
1 Teaspoon paprika
1/2 Teaspoon dry thyme
1/2 Teaspoon dry oregano
1/2 Teaspoon dry rosemary
1/2 Teaspoon dry marjoram
1/2 Teaspoon dry sage
1/2 Teaspoon dry basil

Fried Chicken Recipe from Kentucky on a plate.

Preparation
1. Combine dry ingredients (herbs spices and flour)
2. Mix eggs with water
3. Coat chicken in egg wash
4. Coat in flour and herb/spice mixture
5. Repeat coating in egg wash and herb/spice mixture
6. Shake off excess
7. Fry for 20 minutes at 300 degrees
8. Remove and place on paper towel for 2 minutes before serving
9. Dust with pinch of salt

some pieces of Kentucky Fried Chicken thighs on a plate.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe

Yield: 5
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

If you are looking to impress your friends and family: Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe is a great option. Better than the original!

Ingredients

For the poultry:

  • 5 pieces of chicken, breast leg or thigh
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons water

11 herbs and spices as follows:

  • 1 Tablespoon Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 Teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 Teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 Teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 Teaspoon paprika
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry thyme
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry oregano
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry rosemary
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry marjoram
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry sage
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dry basil

Instructions

  1. Combine dry ingredients (herbs spices and flour)
  2. Mix eggs with water
  3. Coat chicken in egg wash
  4. Coat in flour and herb/spice mixture
  5. Repeat coating in egg wash and herb/spice mixture
  6. Shake off excess
  7. Fry for 20 minutes at 300 degrees
  8. Remove and place on paper towel for 2 minutes before serving
  9. Dust with pinch of salt
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 5 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 473Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 210mgSodium: 1434mgCarbohydrates: 40gFiber: 2gSugar: 0gProtein: 51g
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Cuisine: American / Category: Fried Chicken

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11 responses to “Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe – 11 Herbs and spices”

  1. Know All

    KFC recipe is like Monalisa or Loch Ness.  It has been enearthed long ago.  But people want to drag the conversation on.  I have tasted chicken better than KFC. The real point is marketing, than of taste (or smile, or mystery)

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  2. bowrudder

    The Soviets reverse engineered KFC chicken in the 1960s. You can find the recipe on most Cuban sites.

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  3. Rickey Moore

    If your town's KFC doesn't TASTE like KFC, call their district office. It's a known problem when the spices are shipped mixed with the flour in large bags. The spices will drift to one side if not turned over periodically. Then you get fried chicken, instead of KFC. For the prices they charge, raise hell about it. It will be made right as the TASTE is what they sell.

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  4. TikiTrvlr

    If I could find the recipe for Old Quebec Seasoning for chicken, I'd be happy…

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  5. Alric Krueger

    When it first came out pressure cooking it for i believe for 7—9
    minutes made it tender and
    much better tasting

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  6. William Baker

    I tried it….very good indeed….to hell with KFC, this is better…….actually most any fried chicken done by a competent cook is better than the KFC chicken

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  7. ELISKA wison

    DRESSING HERBS ARE STUFFING POULTRY HERBS ,
    SAUSAGE SPICES ARE PEPPARONI SPICES OR BBQ SPICES…
    POULTRY HERBS AND BBQ SPICES.. 
    YOU LOOK FOR CHICKEN RECIPE FORGETTING ITS A GRAVY BASE AT END PRODUCT….. BOTTOM OF FRYER IN COLLECTOR… 
    GRAVY RECIPE..BREADED TO CHICKEN… DUH…. 

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  8. Crazy Horse 21

    From what I have learned from a few tweaks and insider info, some of the components that are key to the eleven herbs and spices is the original good seasons dry Italian salad dressing envelope mix and half a envelope of Lipton's tomato cup o' soup, black pepper, a dash of cayenne or Tone's or Gebhardt's chili powder, granulated dry garlic and onion powder, no salt. Apparently, the salt content in the soup and dry salad dressing have enough to cover the bases. I've tried it, and its near perfect to the original recipe formula. One other key is using mock buttermilk, which is whole milk at one cup to two tablespoons of white distilled vinegar, mixed well, no eggs needed. The vinegar acts as a breakdown component of the breast, bone and fatty tissue of the skin upon wash, rinse, and thorough shaking from excess moisture. I have found that running the dry ingredients through a food processor pulsed until nearly fine works best to blend.

    Heloise, the original as well recommended a technique to dry washed chicken by soaking in mock buttermilk mixture forget least 12 to 15 minutes, then dredging the chicken in the flour, baking powder and dry ingredients uncovered and frozen for 24 mins on a pretty greased cookie sheet. I guess this phase dries hard enough and seals the seasonings into the skin, as well as forms a barrier to keep moisture from interrupting the fry process.
    It works, though a wee bit time consuming, but worth the wait.

    As far as the deep fry, it would be the same as one would do fish and chips, which is to fry half way, drain, and reheat the oil to 350. Finish frying to a colonial oak color, drain on elevated baking rack and catching the extra grease with cheap paper towels below.

    Give it a shot and you have the near thing.
    

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  9. Clemens Kindermann

    300 degrees??? I hope you are not talking about Celsius!!!

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  10. Untitled Unlited

    This tastes better than KFC IMO.

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  11. Diela Woolf

    Hey! Crimson could you also send me the KFC recipe as none get it right lots of thanks email  [email protected]

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