Serve with everything.
KFC Potato and Gravy
This recipe is here by reader demand! And this is the photo that started it all – Fried Chicken being dunked in a bowl of what I call my copycat KFC Potato and Gravy. Readers spied it in the recipe video and saw photos in the post. I casually offered it up – “let me know if you want the recipe!” – and the people have spoken. The recipe is here!
The gravy tastes just like KFC and takes 4 minutes flat to make! Here is the recipe. The mashed potato is softly creamy, as opposed to dense-creamy. Soft enough so you can swipe and fistful of chips through it! Though I suspect KFC Mashed Potato is made with reconstituted potato flakes, I prefer mine be made with real potatoes.😇
What you need for KFC Potato and Gravy
I’ve shared the Gravy recipe separately because actually, it’s my everyday gravy made from scratch (ie no pan drippings from roasts) with just hot water for the liquid. It is very, very good and I use it for “everything”! So I wanted to file it separately. And here’s what you need for the KFC Mashed Potato.
How to make KFC Mashed Potato
The unique thing about KFC Mashed Potato is how it’s creamy but soft. Soft enough to dunk chips and fluffy white rolls! Here’s the method I use to achieve that beautiful soft texture – using real potatoes, no potato flakes!
Potato Ricer = soft, fluffy, creamy texture
The only way to truly achieve the signature soft, fluffy creamy texture with minimal lumps is to use a potato ricer (pictured in step 3 below). A stand mixer or hand held beater will activate the starch in potatoes and make it more dense and heavy so I don’t recommend that. If you don’t have a potato ricer, the next best alternative is a potato masher with holes in the mashing end (because it yields a similar effect to the potato ricer).
What to serve with KFC Potato and Gravy
How long is a piece of string? 😂😂😂 OK, just a few ideas – here we go!
KFC style! Dunk in Fried Chicken, warm bread rolls, hot chips, wedges As a side dish for sausages, steak, schnitzel BBQ Pulled Pork Any roast – roast chicken, pork roast with incredible crackling, marinated roast beef or a Prime Rib/Standing Rib Roast, or the most incredible slow cooked Lamb Leg…. Barbecue Pork Ribs – imagine meat falling off the bone and a sticky barbecue sauce! Midweek meals – try it on the side of Sticky Baked Chicken Thighs, juicy Baked Chicken Breast, Marinated Pork Chops, Lamb Chops, the Meatloaf of your dreams or the best Rissoles of your life!
And if all that choice is just too overwhelming for you, just grab a spoon and dig straight in. SO GOOD! – Nagi x
Watch how to make it
Life of Dozer
Torrential rains in Sydney -> at my mother’s house without Dozer’s raincoat -> Dozer needs to pee -> makeshift raincoat using my mother’s poncho and…errr….. ribbon from a present?? 😂
