KFC Copycat Popcorn Chicken Recipe

[Music] what's good everybody and welcome back to my channel sng with ab ah i got y'all look i'm just trying to shorten everything up so we can get right into it now look you guys seen the thumbnails so you know i'm on that copycat kick right today i'm going to show you guys how to make the kfc you know these are these popcorn chickens you know what this is it right here i call them nuggets i don't know what about that popcorn whatever it is but check this out you can't say kfc without saying 11 herbs and spices i got it i'm not gonna over talk it so let's get it okay so here this is everything that you're gonna need right you know to go ahead and make it i got my pot i got all my spices and herbs i got my chicken and i got a couple of bowls now all of the ingredients will be down in the description box below and then as i use them i'll flash them across the screen but don't forget check the description box below and you'll get the amount and the ingredient name so first thing we want to do is we want to get ourselves a bowl you want to get yourself some buttermilk and we're going to get some salt let me get that set up and then we move forward now before we get started look i probably should have said let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room this is their actual i want you guys to like look at the size of these right here you know let's see if we can get these to focus a little better there you go so you can see the size look i'm gonna make something about this side but we're not gonna have none of them small ones like you can see them like this right here like some of the smaller ones right we just want to make them pretty much this big so we can have you know a piece of chicken in our mouth hey outside of that look i'm gonna set this off to the side and check it out i got me a box so look we're gonna fill it up and i think i'm gonna take i don't know maybe i should cross it out just be like this is abs fried popcorn chicken hey anyway look got my bowl right i'm gonna go ahead got my buttermilk and then right here we want to take like a half a teaspoon of salt so half a teaspoon shake it so we can level it we just going to be accurate as we can i'm gonna let this sit just for one second because what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this we're gonna trim these up we're gonna cut our bites and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this put this in there and we're gonna put it in the refrigerator so set this off to the side okay look i'm gonna just take this right here i got my knife look we're gonna trim some of this off of here you know so we'll just take it matter of fact look let me just cut it like that now we're gonna have a piece like this this right here i don't so much worry about i mean since it pulls off easy i will but you just want to get the bulk of it off i obviously use a chicken breast so you cut them how you want to cut them how big you want them to be i'm going to cut them like this about this size and then what we'll do is we'll cut some strips about like that and then we'll cut some about this size you know i like them to be meaty and big so we'll just go ahead and put them in our buttermilk and salt you know mix so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna keep cutting these right i want you guys to do that and then i'm not gonna bore you guys i'm gonna go ahead and just put them in like this once i get done i'll tell you what i'm gonna do i mean i gave you guys just like the just of it already what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna stick it into the refrigerator we're gonna stay in there for just about an hour then after that we'll take them out then we're going to get everything ready you know to go ahead and fry okay we got them all cut so you guys can see i haven't mixed nothing in there i want you guys just like look at the size and you know when you cut chicken it's gonna be like a little tacky right so i put it in here i didn't even mix the salt up why because i put a glove on and what we're gonna do is put our hand in here and we're just gonna go in here and just get them all coated then when i'm done i'll go ahead and put some saran wrap over the top you know any type of plastic wrap even if you got foil that works too let me get it covered put in there and meanwhile we'll go ahead and get our flour together okay so now we're in the refrigerator right we got the chicken in the refrigerator inside of this little buttermilk marinade so what we're going to do is i'm going to move these over [Music] and what you want to do is you want to get yourself a bowl get your bowl get yourself a bowl like this right now there's no right way or no order what you want to do is get all of your herbs and spices in here so we'll just start with the flour paprika okay you just seen the flour and the paprika right so now we're going to add thyme ginger garlic salt dried basil dried oregano celery salt mustard powder white pepper and then we're going to put a half a teaspoon of salt right listen that's all of the ingredients and i want to tell you this listen they add msg but listen we're not doing that so we set that off to the side we get our pot and now let me explain that so what you see here is look i got a candy thermometer because look i'm gonna be using vegetable oil right so we're gonna put that in here and then i'm gonna be using this strainer right here to get them out shake off the oil and then put them on my cooling rack now the candy thermometer this is way i can see when i get up to 350 degrees right so once i see that then i know i'm good and that's when i do it so we're not gonna over talk it we're gonna wait and then we're gonna get right into it okay it's been an hour i removed these out of the refrigerator right look get yourself a strainer it'll be much easier if you do this but you can do them like this get yourself a big enough bowl just go ahead and just pour them just like you see like this now what i want to do is i want to grab this here i want to grab our flour right and listen i got another baking sheet i'm just going to set that on top of this one right here so you see this one put it there now i'm gonna take these and i'm gonna start coating these and as i coat them i'm gonna shake them dry then i'm gonna just put them and line them up there meanwhile you wanna put your oil in your pot and start bringing it up to temperature and we're gonna cook them we're to fry them at a 350 degrees now listen after you have them over the strainer and they have already dripped right just go ahead and get yourself a few use one hand right you want to take them out of there dip them into the flour and then you just want to make sure they coat it once they coat it just go ahead shake off the excess and then continue look at those you can look at the size of them and just know that that i only used two you know they were kind of like they were rather big but this is just two chicken breasts so we got this here i've already started bringing my oil up to a temp so once we reach 350 then it's gonna be time to go ahead and put those in there then you want to get yourself a rack like this so that they can drip dry you know and get some of that oil off of them don't forget we're using vegetable vegetable oil so let's get it okay my thermometer it reads 350 degrees it's actually at when i look at it it's getting it's starting to approach 360 but moving real slow which is good because don't forget we came out of the refrigerator right and we got them coated now i'm going to take these i'm just going to put them away from me and we're not going to put so many in there but you know it's going to cool the oil down just a little bit so we'll just do them like this now it's going to take about four to five minutes if you were able to maintain your temperature at about 350 degrees right so you want to look for that right there that golden brown color once you achieve that then you can go ahead and take those off put them on your you know your bacon your cooling rack you know what i mean look at that color right there that right there is fine so we're going to continue the proc the process until all of them are done and then what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna cut them gotta let them cool because you can't eat them when they hot like this but look at those right there oh yeah we'll just add more we'll keep going as soon as they're done after they cool we're gonna go ahead and taste them you know cut them so you guys can see the inside and we'll move forward now here is my last batch after tasting the first one i went to about five minutes they were a little bit darker in color i mean i love that color but if you take them out at four minutes and it all depends on the size right so when you take them out you know they start looking like this right listen they still darken up a little bit even as they start to uh cool so it depends on the size but i'm gonna say anywhere between four to five minutes because they're small you know what i mean and then you got them and what you want to do is you want to sprinkle a little salt on top of them especially while they're hot so it will it will uh adhere you know just to wake it up just a tad bit you know that's completely optional but there we have it let's take this off and now let's go and let them cool and then we finally eat some i want you guys to take a look look at that right there hey these probably should be called just like straight abs fried nuggets hey these right here are gonna be fire folks so listen i'm gonna let them cool for at least just one minute then i'm gonna go ahead and just you know taste me one and then uh hey we finna just like put them in this box i'm gonna show you my version we're gonna look at their version and then we're gonna go from there okay so look it's cooled enough so that i can you know like taste it what i'm gonna do is i'll just take one of these i'll just take this one right here be easy for me to go ahead and uh let's see can you guys see that look at that let's see let's get it sort of focused oh yeah that's it right here so look i'm just gonna go ahead you can just see how it just breaks open breaks breaks open man look at that nice and moist in the inside you saw that steam come off look then i'm gonna hit it with a little barbecue sauce now only thing to do is just like plate them right when you say plate you know why not use one of their boxes to put their recipe you know and put them in there this is just my size i wish theirs was all this size but there you go you guys let me know down in the comment section below what you think and i present to you that's abs kfc copycat popcorn chicken hey so you just seen it hey tell me what you think down in the comment section below you know what i'm gonna be interested in reading you know what you guys got to say about just the way it looks i promise you listen it's gonna be a chore because you got to make a whole lot of them because listen they don't last long so with that being said now i'm gonna eat me another one so i'm gonna go ahead and just grab this one oh it's nice and i can feel the heat from it i'm gonna go ahead and dunk it oh my goodness hey you see this right here all i'm gonna say is check it out cheers [Music] oh man they better watch out folks this right here you guys gotta make this hey i really not gonna over talk it i'm not even gonna try to sell it to you listen if you wanna have that kfc that ooey in your own kitchen you know what make this recipe and come back and tell me down in the comment section below you know what do you think about this and what would you do to send this even more on the edge listen if you're new to my channel let me just say hey thank you for watching this video don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe and tell everybody there's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking hey i'm gonna go ahead and pan over this one more time so you can see it and now you all know this is abs fried chicken boom [Music] you