In today's recipe, I will show you
how to make homemade KFC gravy.
Many people believe that they know how to
make the Colonel's top secret Brown sauce.
Most recipes that I've come across make a
simple Brown sauce and add just onion powder
or just Sage or even just black pepper.
These may be simple and delicious recipes, however, they
just don't taste like the KFC style gravy recipe.
Hey, everybody, it's Johnny Mac from
the Sauce and Gravy Channel.
And today we're going to dive
into a KFC style gravy recipe.
I'm going to start off with
the eleven herbs and spices.
Check the description below for
the list of the ingredients.
Now, the eleven herbs and spices that I'm
using in this recipe are widely believed to
be the same herbs and spices used in
the Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken recipe.
It's believed that the recipe that KFC
uses for its top secret gravy recipe
gets its distinct flavor from crackling.
Now, crackling is the residue found at the bottom of
the chicken fryers, which KFC cleans out each week.
They retain that residue, especially for the gravy.
This residue in large part would seem to
get its flavors from the eleven herbs and
spices used to flavor KFC chicken.
Now, if the Kentucky Fried Chicken crackling is the base flavor
for their gravy and the crackling gets the majority of its
flavor from those eleven herbs and spices used in the top
secret KFC recipe, wouldn't you think that it would be a
good idea to use the eleven herbs and spices in a
Kentucky Fried Chicken style gravy recipe?
So this homemade KFC gravy recipe contains the
eleven herbs and spices suspected to be used
in the Colonel Sanders top secret recipe.
Again, don't hesitate to take a peek at the
description below for the list of the ingredients.
Hey, and you know what else?
I put my own little top secret
blend in at the very end.
I didn't put it in the description.
So you will have to watch to the
very end of the video to see it.
To me, this top secret addition at the end
brings the dish to the table, so to say.
All right, so our eleven herbs
and spices are ready to go.
We combine them all together.
We got the mortar and pestle, ground them
up so that they're nice and fine.
You don't want any chunky pieces of herb in your sauce.
So there we go. We've got it all made.
That's a big batch.
We're not going to use it all.
We'll use one tablespoon in the end. Okay, everybody.
So let's begin this.
Go ahead and throw two tablespoons of
butter into a saucepan over medium heat.
We're going to go ahead and
melt these bad boy Butters down.
That's okay.
If you Brown the butter, it will add just
a little bit of flavor to the sauce today.
I'm not going to Brown it, but if
you want to kick it up a notch.
Go for it.
Check out this little slippery devil.
He is definitely not cooperating.
I finally got him.
Let's melt this bad boy down.
Now it's time to bring in the second
star of the show, our lovely friend Flour.
Two tablespoons of flour.
Throw it on in.
Mix the flour on end to make our nice roux mixture.
We're going to Cook this roux for roughly about
1 minute to get all that flour taste out.
I'm not going to Brown the Roux.
I'm just going to Cook it through.
So I'm not going to Brown it.
I'm going to keep it blonde today.
I don't know if you know that much about Colonel Sanders,
but he kind of had a rough life at the beginning.
And obviously in the end, he was quite well off.
He lost his father at the age of
five, so his mother had to work.
So that meant he had to take care
of his siblings and that meant cooking.
He also had to take on some jobs at
farms and such in order to add a little
bit of extra income for the family.
One of his first jobs that he had working at a farm,
he was more or less fired two weeks after he started because
he was a little bit too distracted by the animals.
You have to keep in mind, he was
still a kid now because he was fired.
His mom told him that he was
worthless and would never amount to anything.
And boy, was she ever wrong
or on Colonel Sanders to come.
So in this recipe, I'll be using some quality products.
I'm going to use chicken stock. So I'm not going to use
chicken bouillon or a bouillon Cube.
I'm going to use chicken stock, which has a more
rounded chicken flavor and less of a salty type taste.
And instead of using beef bouillon cubes, like a lot
of these recipes do, I'm going to use Brown veal stock.
Now, the Brown veal stock will add a
little bit of flavor, but not much.
But what it's really going to do
is it's going to make that Brown,
classic Kentucky Fried Chicken gravy recipe color.
Now go ahead and whisk that ruin.
Make sure that you get it off the bottom.
You're going to Cook this over medium to high heat.
You're going to want to bring this to a boil
to activate that roux to make it nice and thick.
Now let's go back to Colonel Sanders and a
little bit of his history now being told that
he wouldn't amount to anything by his mom.
So this instilled a little bit of
a work ethic into Colonel Sanders.
He had multiple jobs throughout his life in the army.
He worked as a tire salesman, gas
attendant, as well as many other jobs.
And of course, he built
the Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire.
Ok, everybody.
So now it's time to add our eleven
herbs and spices mixture into the gravy.
So we're going to put one tablespoon.
So we're not putting the whole thing just
one tablespoon in these eleven herbs and spices.
They just bring out the classic KFC style gravy recipe.
Give it a little mix.
You want to get all those lovely spices
and flavors and herbs into the mixture.
Ok.
Ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls of all ages,
it's the moment that you've been all waiting for.
My secret ingredient.
Drum roll, please.
Okay, so it is white wine vinegar.
This is what I think makes up the fantastic recipe.
I think that in addition to the eleven herbs and spices
used, this is what brings it to the table, folks.
Okay, so we're going to reduce this sauce by half,
Cook it over medium heat for roughly about 20 minutes.
Now, Colonel Sanders felt more or less
inside, like Kentucky Fried Chicken in the
franchise were more or less his children.
He really did believe in a quality fried
chicken as well as a quality gravy.
Colonel Sanders sold his franchise in the 60s.
However, he still did act as
a spokesman for the company.
Colonel Sanders was very vocal about how
he didn't like the direction that the
new franchise owners were going.
They weren't using as good of quality
products for their gravy or their chicken.
It seems that Andy and accounting was
cutting costs and also removing quality.
So that's a brief history on Colonel Sanders
in his life and since he was a
hard worker and believed in quality type foods.
So that's the direction that I've tried to
take with my homemade KFC gravy recipe.
Tried to incorporate a little bit
of quality into this gravy.
And as with any sauce, my friends,
it's always important to skim the sauce.
So make sure you skim the top of
the sauce with a spoon or a ladle.
Get all of that foam off, get all the
impurities out, make this sauce look nice and neat.
Now we're starting to get there.
Now that's looking like a homemade
KFC gravy recipe right there.
Check out that Brown gravy. Look at that.
The gravy is getting a little bit thicker.
It's starting to have more of an oily consistency.
But we still need to take it a little bit further.
Okay, so we've reduced it by half. Check it out.
Nice and thick.
Colonel Sanders would be so proud. Check it out.
Look at all those wonderful eleven herbs and spices.
See all those little flakes?
That's not just one little herb.
That's eleven herbs and spices.
Plus the addition of my
wonderful top secret ingredient.
And that, my dear friends, is my version of
the top secret, classic KFC style gravy recipe.
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