KFC Original Recipe

Earlier this week Bill brought home a recipe for "KFC's Original Recipe" chicken breading. He said everyone at work was raving about it, and that it was just like KFC's.

So I decided to try it!

My verdict is that it is pretty darn close! But, I prefer less pepper, though I don't have KFC very often at all, so there may, in fact, be that much white pepper in the recipe. That said, I will halve the white pepper next time.

What do you think?

This recipe makes about 6 pieces of chicken.

1 quart of buttermilk
6 pieces of chicken (bone-in or boneless/skinless is fine, whatever you prefer)
2c flour
2/3 t salt
1/2 t thyme
1/2 t basil
1/3 t oregano
1 t celery salt
1 t black pepper
1 t dried mustard
4 t paprika
2 t garlic salt
1 t ground ginger
3 t white pepper
2c crisco

Soak chicken in buttermilk for at least an hour, but it can be soaked overnight (the longer the better, in my opinion!).

Combine remaining dry ingredients in a shallow dish.

Melt the crisco in a skillet on medium/high heat.

Remove each piece of chicken from the buttermilk and dredge in the dry ingredients. Place into hot oil and cook thoroughly on all sides, turning only after the coating has turned crispy.