MamaM! Help need: KY Fried Chicken Recipe

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I need the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken! If I fry it in my pressure cooker will I blow the darned thing up? What are your thoughts and concerns on this? Do you have a recipe to share!?! Please help

[Mama Mangia]

Cathy - there are so many clones for KFC. Don't believe any of them. and don't believe that there is a secret recipe of "x" amount of herbs and spices.
MSG - combined with salt - added to the bread crumbs - pressure fried - and the chicken is "marinated" in sodium phosphate.
there is also a lot of controversy about the chickens they use - they call them frankenchickens.
as far as using a pressure cooker - if it is not a pressure fryer - don't put greasein it - but you can pressure cook chicken

take a piece of chicken - soak it in heavily salted buttermilk for a couple hours - remove and bread with dry bread crumbs and a box of Accent - that's about the size of it

it's not the herbs - it's the amount of MSG and salt that gives the chicken its flavor - as well as the pressure fryer

[Mama Mangia]

Here's a clone -

KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN

2 pkgs. Good Seasons Italian dressing mix
3 tbsp. flour
2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. lemon juice
2 tbsp. butter, melted
1 c. milk
1 lg. fryer, cut up
1 1/2 c. pancake mix, with 1 tsp. paprika, 1/2 tsp. sage, 1/4
tsp. pepper
Oil for frying

Make paste from 1 package Italian seasoning, flour, salt,
lemon juice and butter. Brush on chicken to coat evenly.
Place in bowl and refrigerate several hours. Dip chicken
in milk, then pancake mix, then 2nd package of Italian
seasoning, coating well. Dust off excess. Lightly brown on
each side, then place in pans. Single layer - do not crowd.
Pans should have some oil on bottom first. Spoon remaining
milk on chicken. Cover with foil. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.
Uncover and bake 10 to 15 minutes at 400 degrees to brown and
crisp. Enjoy.


(definitely not the way the colonel did it of course)

[Mama Mangia]

another clone - and they didn't make the cup-a-soup and dressing mix in those days -

3 c. self-rising flour
2 pkgs. Good Seasons Italian dressing
1 tbsp. paprika
2 envelopes Lipton's tomato cup-a-soup
1 tsp. salt

Mix all ingredients together. Coat chicken with flour mixture. Lay on cookie sheet. Pour melted butter over all. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Thank you MamaM, I will go for the buttermilk soak and try the breadcrumbs and some nice spices!

[Mama Mangia]

If you are going to do that - go for a bit of sage, parsley, pepper and add some (ground fine) chicken bouillon granules - that should do it for you - soaking in buttermilk is a plus - I wouldn't go for the Accent - I am against MSG. I don't think you will need anymore than that.
(think about it - just how many spices/herbs do you think they would use? they want to make a profit and they made everything cheap)

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Yeah I do not and have never owned Accent, I just have never bought it, I didn't even know it had MSG!

[The Ironic Chef]

Cathy, do you have a pressure cooker made for frying? Using a regular pressure cooker could be dangerous for the use of oil.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Cathy, do you have a pressure cooker made for frying? Using a regular pressure cooker could be dangerous for the use of oil.

No I don't IC. It was just an idea, I believe like you it is not a good idea now that I think more upon it!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

janie is the queen of buttermilk chicken- she swears by it- YUM!