welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen something that I've been asked
for over and over and over again is could I make a KFC gravy recipe and since
I've been doing the KFC chicken videos I have the main ingredient for the KFC
gravy which is this I don't want to call it the sludge from the bottom of the
fryer but essentially that's what it is it is the sludge from the bottom of the
fryer and after I drained the oil out I scraped this up and hang on to it and
that's the basis for the gravy now in the lore of KFC the gravy is one of
those things that really bothered Colonel Sanders after he sold out even
though he was still the spokesperson for the company he just ripped them a new
one every time he talked about the gravy it was something that he absolutely
hated that the bean counters had changed the gravy in order to make it cheaper so
that they could make it faster and you know you know how it goes and he hung on
to the gravy a little bit longer in Canada because he owned the restaurants
here until he died but then it's you know in the iteration since it just
keeps getting made cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and one of the
things I think they're crimping out on is some of the ingredients now this is a
recipe that I have to believe comes from the u.s. southern tradition of sawmill
gravy or biscuit gravy which is you start with what's left over in the pan
after you fry off your breakfast sausage and then you add some flour some milk or
cream and then maybe a little bit of stock and in this case you start with
what's left over in the fryer in order to bring that KFC flavour so I've got
this heated up I'm gonna put in some flour and we'll make a roux with that so
we just whisk it together get the flour dissolved in the fat and brown it a
little bit but you don't want too much browning you don't wanna get it too dark
already this is smelling pretty good so I'm going to start off with a little bit
of milk
stir it in whisk it together little more milk and some cream
it's taste-off time okay it's nothing better than a non-committal taste-off so
this is this needed to be cooked a little longer I didn't cook the roux
enough so the colors not the same if I just cook the roux a little bit longer
browned a little bit more that would have got a better color but I don't know
that the color is going to affect the flavor I'm going to reacquaint myself
with KFC first yeah
fake chicken right up front and then it kind of loses it and then it's gonna sit
then it's gone yeah but I always pick that one no okay completely different go
ahead have a question for you yep what recipe did you base this on well you got
this from someone so in my research of the colonel mmm-hmm he goes on and on
and on and on about his gravy all the time
and there are a bunch of recipes from the late 50s and early 60s where he
talks about how he he makes it he doesn't give the recipe but he does talk
about how he makes it how he takes the drippings from the bottom of the of the
fryer and uses milk and cream with a little bit of his chicken spice in order
to spice it up mm-hm and so that's kind of what I based
it on and it comes from that tradition of sawmill gravy or you know that stuff
yeah yeah biscuit gravy so well fascinated I absolutely think okay
okay vacate those ones I gotta go yeah did you similar yes this one's got a
better rounded flavor this one's got a sharper initial flavor
yeah this one comes on in stays yeah this one
it's like flavor nothing yeah musical so I think on a mashed potato
I would prefer our homemade one but it's not what's currently being served which
was one of Colonel Sanders biggest problems you know in the years leading
up to his death was how bad the KFC gravy had gotten we went on about it any
article that you read where someone was interviewing him he went on about the
gravy being horrible interesting the sir potato bisque potato bun was a very
different kind of input once you throw it on something though mm-hmm which is
interesting
I know they were pretty good and once I'm on something it's it's different
flavor to them um so if you're eating it by the spoonful definitely like we would
say this one if you're eating it on something like on a bun a biscuit
probably mashed potatoes yeah they seemed it's funny how it's different
it's funny now I would have KFC mashed potatoes here but this is April 2020 we
had to go to through the drive-thru at the KFC in order to get the gravy you
order online ahead of time and they're not serving mashed potatoes right now so
we couldn't get any KFC mashed potatoes to drive it on it I'm gonna I don't know
I think I would eat either of them but I think like that one it does have more of
a natural flavor it has more of a so I'm going to keep working on this I think
because I've got more chicken to fry and and you know the drippings just keep
building up so keep an eye on this space and we're going to tackle this one more
time thanks for stopping by stay safe do I look surprised really one more time
with the gravy see you again soon
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