
This double breading gives the chicken its ultra craggy exterior and extra crunch, which is a different texture than the less crispy original recipe fried chicken that’s breaded just once and pressure fried.Īs with my KFC Original Fried Chicken recipe, we must first brine the chicken to give it flavor and moisture all the way through, like the real thing, then the chicken is double breaded and deep-fried until golden brown.

To get their Extra Crispy Chicken so crispy, KFC breads the chicken two times. Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. If you're having trouble tracking down red beans, red kidney beans will be a fine substitute.Ĭan't get enough Popeyes? Find all of my recipes here. As for the beans, find red beans (they're smaller than kidney beans) in two 15-ounce cans. The easiest way is to cook 4 or 5 pieces of bacon, save the cooked bacon for another recipe (or eat it!), then use 1/4 cup of the fat for my Popeyes Red Beans and rice recipe below.

We could get the delicious smoky fat from rendering smoked ham hocks, but that takes too long. Emeril Lagasse-a Cajun food master-says, "pork fat rules," and it does. After convincing a Popeyes manager to show me the ingredients written on the box of red bean mixture, I determined the only way to create an accurate Popeyes Red Beans and Rice recipe is to include an important ingredient omitted from the first version: pork fat. I first created the clone for this Cajun-style recipe back in 1994 for the second TSR book, More Top Secret Recipes, but I've never been overjoyed with the results.
