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KFC, devour your bosom out! Our Fried Chicken Burger is mode crispier than yours, the chickenhearted is mode juicier and it tastes mode better. The instrumentality is to premix a spot of marinade into the flour coating – this creates lumps that fries up into an awesome ultra crunchy crust.
Henry’s Ultra Crispy Fried Chicken Burger
Today’s look is present courtesy of a young lad named Henry whom I met astatine a publication signing successful the NSW determination municipality of Mudgee. Huddled connected the sofa of a cosy section publication store, helium declared his signature crockery to beryllium the RecipeTin Fried Chicken. We enthused implicit however remarkably un-greasy it is and marvelled astatine however it’s crunchy all over, dissimilar KFC which we eeewed astir however the tegument has greasy soggy patches.
Conversation past moved into however we’d usage the Fried Chicken to marque the BEST fried chickenhearted burger successful the world. (Yes, we capitalise it!). We some agreed plain shredded lettuce was amended than coleslaw (too rich!), melted food was unnecessary (too much!), herb was optional. and the bun indispensable beryllium ace soft.
So present it is. Dedicated to Henry and the municipality of Mudgee – I contiguous to you, our precise champion Ultra Crispy Fried Chicken Burger!
Please observe the nubbly, crunchy, craggy aboveground connected the fried chicken!! 🙌🏻
Ingredients
Here’s what you request for homemade Crispy Chicken Burgers.
Chicken brine keeps it juicy!
I usage bosom due to the fact that it’s easier to get a bully azygous signifier suitable for burgers. It’s marinated successful a buttermilk and brackish substance which locks successful juices. Essential due to the fact that bosom volition navigator beyond the perfect interior somesthesia successful the navigator clip required to marque the crust truly crispy and golden.
Don’t interest if you don’t person buttermilk, substitute yogurt and beverage instead. It works virtually the same!
Chicken breast is my penchant for a comparatively azygous signifier erstwhile trimmed to size. However, boneless chickenhearted thighs enactment arsenic well. Whichever you use, it’s champion to lb to adjacent thickness truthful it cooks done evenly and sits reasonably consecutive connected the burger.
Buttermilk – Known for its marinating qualities truthful the chickenhearted is truly juicy wrong erstwhile cooked. It’s the accepted marinating constituent utilized for Southern Fried Chicken which is the fried chickenhearted look utilized for this burger.
While it’s a communal constituent successful the States, it’s much of a speciality baking point present successful Australia. But there’s an easy substitute that works virtually the aforesaid – conscionable plain yogurt and milk! The acidity and thickness of yogurt diluted with beverage results successful astir the aforesaid consistency arsenic buttermilk, and yogurt is fantabulous for marinating (proof here!).
Salt – For seasoning and summation the chicken’s juiciness.
Egg – To marque the flour crust instrumentality to the chicken.
KFC 11 concealed herbs and spices!
The flavour of the fried chickenhearted is simply a copycat of KFC fried chicken. Flavour wise, it is very similar!
Herbs and spices – No antithetic players here, conscionable each the usual suspects! Adjust the cayenne capsicum for the magnitude of spiciness you want. Simply omit if you don’t privation spicy astatine all!
Cornflour/cornstarch and flour – For the coating of the chickenhearted to marque it fry up ultra crunchy! Cornflour makes it crunchier than conscionable utilizing flour. So wherefore not conscionable usage each cornflour? Because it doesn’t spell aureate erstwhile fried, it stays white. On the different hand, flour coated things fry up into a beauteous aureate colour! So by utilizing a blend of the two, we get the champion of some worlds – crunchy and aureate colour.
Burger fixings
Don’t fto anyone archer you what you should oregon should not person connected your burger. Though, if you privation a copycat better-than-KFC-Burger experience, here’s what you need!
Soft buns – I usage brioche buns due to the fact that they’re truthful brushed and pillowy, and a small spot saccharine similar KFC buns. However, you tin usage immoderate buns you want. (I’d personally debar ultra chewy / crispy ones though. A small excessively pugnacious for usage successful burgers).
Gherkins/pickles – Just your mundane dill pickles, oregon immoderate takes your fancy. Just a small thing to chopped done the richness and saltiness of everything other going connected wrong the burger!
Lettuce – Good ole’ iceberg lettuce! Nice and fresh, finely slicing it gives it immoderate decent tallness and a beauteous furniture for the crunchy chickenhearted to remainder on.
Garlic mayonnaise – KFC doesn’t usage ail mayo, but you and I cognize that a interaction of ail conscionable makes mayo better. Turns it into aioli, actually!
How to marque Crunchy Fried Chicken Burgers
It’s easier than accepted Fried Chicken which is made with bone-in chickenhearted that instrumentality longer to fry (~6 to 8 minutes) truthful you request to beryllium rather close with somesthesia control.
Chicken Burgers, connected the different hand, are thinner, boneless pieces and instrumentality conscionable 3 to 4 minutes to fry. And due to the fact that of the shape, you don’t request astir arsenic overmuch oil.
Pound the chickenhearted to 1cm / 0.4″ adjacent thickness. Use freezer bags, ziplock bags oregon akin (I usage a purpose-made merchandise called “Go-Between”) and a nutrient mallet, oregon rolling pin. Pounding is recommended truthful the chickenhearted cooks done evenly and sits a small straighter connected the burger. But if you skipped this step, it wouldn’t beryllium a woody breaker.
Trim the chickenhearted to the size of the buns, oregon larger, if you want! It volition shrink a interaction erstwhile it cooks but the crunchy nubbly bits adhd size.
Marinade – Mix the buttermilk, brackish and egg. Then adhd the chickenhearted and flip to coat. Marinate for astatine slightest 3 hours, oregon up to 24 hours. Don’t spell overmuch beyond 24 hours, it really implicit marinades and makes the texture of the chickenhearted excessively overmuch similar the acold chopped chickenhearted slices you bargain astatine the deli. Still nice, but it does alteration the chickenhearted texture.
Crunchy coating – Mix unneurotic the flour, cornflour/cornstarch and each the spices.
PS There is nary spice premix successful the marinade due to the fact that determination is simply a ton successful the coating which is wherever you privation a punch of flavour. If it was successful the marinade too, past the full chickenhearted conscionable tastes the aforesaid each the mode through. The opposition betwixt chickenhearted flavour wrong and aggravated coating is nicer. KFC tastes similar ours i.e. you can’t sensation the seasoning wrong the chicken, conscionable connected the coating.
Marinade flour clumps – This is the instrumentality to the ultra crunchy chicken! Drizzle 2 tablespoons of the marinade into the flour substance past usage your fingers to premix it in. The flour volition signifier small clumps.
When this sticks to the chicken, it fries up into ultra crunchy nubbly bits. This is what makes this chickenhearted truthful crunchy! See my Fried Chicken look for musings and ravings astir this method. Thanks Kenji!
Coat the chickenhearted successful the flour substance conscionable anterior to frying. Don’t bash this successful beforehand and permission it lying around, the chickenhearted volition sweat and marque the flour soggy.
Look at each those clumps! Express walk to crunchy town!
Fry successful lipid for 4 minutes oregon until aureate and crunchy, past drain connected insubstantial towels.
Cooking vas & lipid magnitude – You volition request 2.5cm / 1″ of lipid successful immoderate cooking vas you use, truthful the chickenhearted is elevated disconnected the basal and volition fry evenly each the mode around. A dense based cookware similar a dutch oven is perfect for safety, adjacent organisation of vigor and besides due to the fact that it retains vigor well.
Oil temp – The lipid somesthesia should beryllium 180C/350F. If you don’t person a thermometer (I usage a Thermapen) then trial by throwing successful a tiny cube of bread. At 180C/350F it should crook aureate successful 15 seconds. OR instrumentality a bamboo chopstick successful and interaction the basal of the cookware – if bubbles instantly emergence from level of pot, lipid is blistery enough.
Keeping cooked pieces lukewarm – Because the bladed pieces of chickenhearted navigator successful conscionable 4 minutes, you won’t request an oven to support the cooked pieces warm. Batch 1 volition inactive beryllium blistery erstwhile you decorativeness batch 2. However if you are scaling up, support cooked chickenhearted lukewarm successful a 50C/125F pre-heated oven connected a rack acceptable implicit a tray (so the underside doesn’t spell soggy).
⚠️ Do not touch the chickenhearted for the archetypal 90 seconds, to springiness the crust a accidental to adhere.
Assembling the chickenhearted burgers
Garlic mayo – Mix the mayonnaise with grated garlic. Do this astatine slightest 15 minutes up to springiness the flavours a accidental to meld.
Spread the mayo connected the lid and basal of lightly toasted buns. You tin toast successful the oven, nether a grill oregon conscionable enactment the chopped look down successful a cookware connected the stove.
Assemble – Pile lettuce connected the base, apical with herb if using, past chicken, gherkins past the lid.
Eating time! Sink your teeth into the burgers portion blistery and crunchy!
Love to cognize what you deliberation if you effort this! Hand connected heart, this truly is acold superior to KFC burgers. I americium not 1 to shy distant from going nationalist with Shameful Food I emotion (oh, I’ve been busted doing midnight kebab runs aggregate times!). But KFC burgers is 1 happening you volition ne'er drawback maine eating!! – Nagi x
PS If you marque a broadside of homemade fries to service with these burgers, I’ll beryllium impressed. And if you bash a full-blown homemade KFC dispersed by adding Coleslaw positive Potato and Gravy, I’ll beryllium earnestly impressed!
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Ultra Crunchy Fried Chicken Burger
Ingredients
Chicken choices:
- 2 x 250g/8oz chicken breast (I usage this)
- 4 boneless thigh fillets
Marinade:
- 3/4 cup buttermilk (Note 1 for sub)
- 1 1/2 tsp cooking / kosher salt
- 1 large egg
Burgers:
- 4 soft buns , divided and lightly toasted (mine are 10cm/4″)
- 2 – 3 cups iceberg lettuce , finely sliced (or different leafy greens of choice)
- 2 tomatoes , sliced (optional, sometimes I do)
- 2 gherkins / dill pickles , sliced connected an angle
Garlic mayo:
- 2/3 cup mayonnaise , preferably full egg
- 3/4 tsp garlic , finely grated (1 clove)
Crunchy coating:
- 3/4 cup flour , plain / each purpose
- 1/4 cup corn flour / cornstarch
Fried chickenhearted seasoning:
- 1/4 tsp celery salt (or heaped 1/8 tsp celery seed)
- 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (inc to 1/2 tsp for spicy ZINGER burger!)
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp mustard powder
- 1/4 tsp ginger powder
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt
- 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
To fry:
- 3 cups vegetable oil (or canola oregon peanut) (2.5cm/1″ extent successful cooking vessel)
Instructions
- Shortform recipe:
- Pound chickenhearted to 1cm / 0.4" thickness, trim, marinade 3 – 24 hrs. Mix coating and seasoning, premix successful 2 tbsp marinade. Coat chicken, fry astatine 180°C/350°F for 4 min (don't interaction for archetypal 90 sec). Assemble!
- Full instructions:
- Chicken – Cover the chickenhearted with a freezer container oregon integrative expanse and lb to 1cm / 0.4" adjacent thickness. Trim to conscionable a interaction larger than the size of your bun. Save off-cuts for different usage (stir fry – oregon Dozer, successful my case!).
- Marinade – Whisk Marinade ingredients successful a bowl. Add chicken, toss. Marinate successful the fridge for 3 hours minimum, to overnight (don't spell beyond 24 hrs).
- Garlic mayo – Mix successful a tiny vessel and refrigerate until required.
- Prepare crunchy coating – Mix flour, cornflour and Seasoning ingredients successful a bowl. Drizzle implicit 2 tablespoons of the marinade, past usage fingers to premix done to signifier lumps – erstwhile this sticks to the chicken, it fries up into awesome crunchy bits!!
- Heat oil successful a ample dense based cookware implicit mean precocious vigor to 180°C/350°F (Note 2).
- Coat chicken – Pick up a portion of chickenhearted and let excess marinade to drip off. Press to overgarment successful flour coating. Shake disconnected excess, past fry for 2 minutes connected each broadside until golden. DO NOT TOUCH for the archetypal 90 seconds to let the coating to adhere. I fry 2 astatine a time. Drain connected insubstantial towels, navigator remaining chicken.
- Assemble – Smear ail mayo connected the apical and bottommost of the buns. Pile lettuce connected the base, apical with herb if using. Then chicken, gherkins and enactment the lid on. Sink your teeth into it instantly and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition per burger. Estimate assuming 1 tablespoonful of the lipid is absorbed into the chickenhearted coating and takes into relationship residual flour and marinade that is discarded.Nutrition
Life of Dozer
Explanation of his forlorn look: He’s not allowed successful the room erstwhile I heavy fry. So helium slunk disconnected extracurricular for a snooze. By the clip helium woke up and waddled backmost inside, the burgers were agelong gone and I was roasting vegetables. Explanation complete.
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