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KFC Style Chicken Popcorn

21st November 2019

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Chicken popcorn is a very popular and crispy snack. Almost all the people who like chicken, love this popcorn chicken so much. While people visit any KFC restaurant, most of them order this crunchy chicken snack.

KFC style popcorn chicken is too much popular all over the world. Child to adult everyone loves this crispy chicken snack.

Learn how to make this recipe at home and enjoy the “restaurant-style chicken popcorn at home”. There are different types of chicken popcorn in different regions of the world. Here is the best and easiest method to cook this in your kitchen.

KFC original chicken popcorn
Crispy Chicken Popcorn

 I am sure whether you cook this dish at your home, you will be forgotten your favorite KFC restaurant. I make this recipe in three steps i.e marination, coating, and deep fry.

Why marination is important?

It is very important to marinate chicken with buttermilk or vinegar and some other ingredients. Because marination makes the chicken soft and tender and also helps to cook inside of chicken pieces easily.

 It has no fixed time to marinate but you can marinate the chicken minimum of 30 minutes to 8 hours. I prefer 4-8 hours of marination. Because the flavor of all the spices enters into the chicken pieces during the long time marination.

fried recipe on kitchen paper

 How many types of coating ingredients use to make popcorn chicken?

I mainly use two types of coating ingredients i.e all-purpose flour and cornflour. You may add breadcrumbs also. A better coating makes it more crispy and tasty.

 

Healthy chicken fried like popcorn

Can I make it in the oven?

To say the truth, it is not the best idea to make crunchy popcorn chicken. It wouldn’t be perfectly crispy in the oven. If you want to make it good crispy, it should be deep-fried.

How long to deep fry popcorn chicken?

The time of cooking or deep frying mainly depends on the size of the chicken pieces and the temperature of the oil. Whether the chicken pieces are small cube size and cook them over a medium flame then it may take approximately 10-12 minutes. Follow the deep frying instructions below to make the perfect crunchy popcorn chicken. 

Some more crispy chicken recipes

  • Broasted Chicken recipe
  • KFC style fried chicken recipe
  • Crispy Chicken Pakora
  • Pressure Cooker Fried Chicken
KFC original chicken popcorn

KFC Style Crispy Popcorn Chicken Recipe

Popcorn chicken is a yummy, crispy chicken recipe made with boneless chicken. This recipe made by marination and deep-fried process with all-purpose flour and some other ingredients. Enjoy KFC style chicken popcorn sitting at your home.
4.67 from 9 votes
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Prep Time 25 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Servings 3 serving
Calories 350 kcal

Equipment

  • Deep-frying pan
  • mixing bowl

Ingredients
  

For the marination

  • 300 grams boneless chicken
  • 1 tbsp ginger-garlic powder or paste
  • ½ tbsp black pepper powder
  • 1 tbsp paprika (Kashmiri red chili powder)
  • 1 tbsp powdered sugar
  • salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp dark soya sauce
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano (optional)
  • 1 piece egg

For the coating

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp Corn flour / corn starch
  • ½ tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp red chili powder
  • ⅓ tbsp black pepper

For deep fry

  • ½ liter vegetable oil

Instructions
 

Marination

  • Cut boneless chicken into small cubes or bite-sized.
  • In a mixing bowl, take chicken pieces. Add all the marination spices (ginger garlic paste, black pepper, paprika, salt, vinegar, dark soya sauce, beaten egg, paprika, oregano, and powdered sugar).
  • Mix well, all the ingredients with chicken pieces. Keep it in a refrigerator for a minimum of 30 minutes to 8 hours.

Coating

  • Combine all the coating ingredients (all-purpose flour, cornflour, breadcrumbs, red chili powder, and salt) in a mixing bowl.
  • Now take the marinated chicken pieces and coated all sides with this coating ingredients.
  • Shake the coated chicken lightly to remove the extra dry crust. Keep aside them for 10 minutes to set the crust.

Deep fry

  • Heat 250 ml cooking oil in a deep-fried pan over a high flame. Check the temperature of the oil by food thermometer (350F) or add a small portion of the mixture in the oil. The dough will rise up without browning if the temperature is perfect. Now keep the flame to medium, add chicken pieces in batches.
  • Stir them often or overturn to cook well all sides. Fry them until golden brown or cook through.
  • Keep them on a kitchen paper after removing from the deep frying pan to absorb extra oil. 
  • Add the next batch to the hot oil and follow the same method to fry them.
  • Finally, the hot crispy chicken popcorn is ready to serve. Serve them hot or wait until cool down to room temperature.
  • Whether you want to serve them for the next day then cool down to room temperature. Keep them in a sealed container.

Nutrition

Calories: 350kcal
Keyword Chicken popcorn Recipe
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Preparations

To get the best and crispiest chicken popcorn a good preparation is required. Please follow all the preparation methods properly for best KFC style popcorn chicken.

Cut chicken into small size or bite-size. Make sure all the pieces are made the same size so that they take equivalent time to cook.

 ingredients for marinate

Take ginger garlic paste, black pepper, paprika, salt, vinegar, dark soya sauce, beaten egg, paprika, oregano, and powdered sugar in a mixing pot. Add chicken pieces. Combined them well so that a coating makes on the chicken pieces.

Marinated chicken in a pot

Marinade it in a refrigerator for 6-8 hours or overnight.

Flour coated pieces

In a bowl take all the coating ingredients, combined them. Coating the marinated chicken pieces with this.

Oil in deep Kadhai

Heat cooking oil in a deep frying pan over high flame.

chicken is  frying in deep kadai

Dip chicken pieces one by one in it. Regulate the flame to medium. Fried them in batches. Cook them until light red or crispy. Time take to cook is approximately 8-10 minutes.

fried recipe on kitchen paper

Remove them from the oil and keep on a towel or tissue paper to remove excess oil. Repeat the process to cook rest of the chicken pieces.

Serve hot popcorn chicken or allow them to cool down at room temperature. Dip them in mayonnaise Sauce or as per your choice and enjoy every bite.

Summary of the recipe

  • Cut chicken into cubed size then marinate with marination spices.
  • Coat marinated chicken with coating ingredients.
  • Deep fried chicken untill they make crispy.
  • Serve, and enjoy.

Tips

  • For better result marinate the chicken pieces for 6-8 hours.
  • Adjust salt and chili powder as per your taste.
  • Don’t keep the flame high at the time of cooking. It will make dark the outside without cooking the internal side.
  • Sprinkle some chat masala on hot chicken popcorn to get a better taste.
  • You may use buttermilk instead of vinegar for marination.

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Comments

  1. Mahua

    2nd December 2019 at 4:18 pm

    5 stars
    Wow, it’s amazing. Hey KFC recipe can I use breadcrumbs for coating?

    Reply
  2. Antony

    3rd December 2019 at 10:34 am

    5 stars
    Hey, I like your recipe. I tried it at home and it was amazing

    Reply
  3. Antony

    3rd December 2019 at 10:35 am

    5 stars
    I tried it at home. Very nice recipe.

    Reply
    • KFC Recipe

      3rd December 2019 at 11:24 am

      Thanx Antony

      Reply
  4. Larissa

    5th May 2020 at 7:54 pm

    Do u have to use breadcrumbs

    Reply

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