Ron Douglas has been hunting down and duplicating restaurant recipes since 2003, but the latest achievement he claims is noteworthy... Colonel Sander's 11 herbs and spices for KFC's original recipe fried chicken.He reveals KFC's secret along with many others in his new book (out this week) "America's Most Wanted Recipes: Delicious Recipes from Your Family's Favorite Restaurants."
In case you were wondering, according to Ron, you can duplicate the fast food giant's Original Recipe chicken with this mixture of 11 herbs and spices:
- 1 teaspoon ground oregano
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground sage
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons Accent (an MSG-based seasoning)
5 comments:
He's been trying to decipher KFC's 11 herbs and spices?
All these scientists trying to find a cure for cancer ... just wasting their time.
This is the important stuff
It's been well known for a long time, that there isn't any 11 herbs and spices. It's nothing more than salt, pepper, and MSG. The 11 herbs and spices is nothing more than a marketing scheme. This was discovered back in the early 80's.
How boring and much more stressful life would be if EVERY SINGLE individual, scientist or not, was forced by self-righteous contol freaks to spend ALL their free time attempting to figure out a cure/solution for this or that problem .
Since everything else is so silly, maybe you shouldn't be wasting your time being snarky on the internet -- why aren't you out finding that cure?!
1 teaspoon ground oregano
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground sage
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon onion salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons Accent (an MSG-based seasoning)
Most of these seasonings have distinctive tastes and appearances -- the herbs, in particular would leave the chicken with a distinct italian herbal flavor & aroma, along with greenish flecks in the batter; none of which I've ever detected while eating KFC.
I'd say there's definitely salt, black pepper, MSG, maybe a little paprika & onion powder, a hint of nutmeg or mace, and that's it for the seasonings -- 6 at the most.
Deciphering what it contains should be an easy task under a microscope, but it's not what type of herbs and spices, its specifically the amounts used that we will never know.
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