KFC and All Fried Chicken

Try some pre-made spice combinations like Jerk or Cajun.

Although i detest the people who just decide to copy/paste numerous recipes as responses to questions, when they have no clue as to what the recipe even is, I would suggest Alton Brown’s tried and true delicious buttermilk fried chicken. If you don’t like taking the entire recipe, I would defiantly suggest paprika be added to your list of spices. Good eats!

1 broiler/fryer chicken, cut into 8 pieces
2 cups low fat buttermilk
2 tablespoons kosher salt
2 tablespoons Hungarian paprika
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Flour, for dredging
Vegetable shortening, for frying

I season my flour with Lawry’s seasoning salt, garlic powder, and black pepper. I don’t measure the spices, I just know from experience how much to use. I’ve been cooking a long time! BTW, try the Alton Brown recipe that someone posted. It is fantastic.

Depends what kind of flavour you like. I like to add the Mrs Dash seasonings to a flour and cornmeal mixture and use that. Mrs Dash has lots of different combinations and is cheaper than buying all the spices separately.

There’s a local grocery store in my neighborhood that makes their own Chinese food and they have this awesome fried chicken and the secret is chinese five spice powder in the flour mixed with a little cornstarch. Chinese five spice powder is a blend of more than five spices actually but you can use, cloves,star anise, ginger, cumin, coriander,Szechuan pepper corns and grind all that up and add it to the flour you coat your chicken in. It’s awesome. Check your asian food aisle if you have one in your local grocery store it should be there.

I also like to just add paprika, black pepper, cayenne, cinnamon, garlic powder, onion powder, a bit of dry mustard and also dried basil, oregano,thyme rosemary (or buy Italian herb seasoning) and mix all that into my flour. It’s really nice.

i always add ground black pepper, old bay, and cayenne to my flour. I never measure, just eyeball it. make sure that the cayenne is less than the pepper and old bay. you’re gonna love it!!

For 1 cup plain flour & 1 cup rice flour, use equal part (1 teaspoon) for each spice (finely grind); cumin, coriander, paprika, salt & sugar. Adjust according to your own preference. Adding rice flour will give your fried chicken the extra crunch.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Spice
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon oregano leaves
1 tablespoon powdered sage
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
1 teaspoon marjoram
1 1/2 teaspoons thyme
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons dry minced parsley
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon paprika
2 tablespoons garlic salt
2 tablespoons onion salt
2 tablespoons chicken bouillon powder (or 4 cubes, mashed)
1 package Lipton tomato Cup-a-Soup mix

Place all ingredients in blender and pulse for 3-4 minutes to pulverize, or rub through a fine strainer. Store in an airtight container so the spices will not lose their potency. Makes about 3/4 cup.

Add 1 ounce mix to every one cup of flour for coating chicken.

Put Tabasco in your egg or milk mixture…start with a few shakes, then try cayenne in your flour. Season 1 cup of flour also with 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 tsp black pepper, and 1 tsp. onion powder and 1/4 tsp cayenne.
If that is too spicy, try 1 tsp paprika in the flour and skip the Tabasco.