Christina Satisfy all your KFC plant-based fried chicken cravings sitting at home with our KFC Style Spicy Vegan Popcorn Chicken that tastes so much like the real thing (minus the cruelty!) and is much healthier! So crispy, crunchy, delicious, spicy, and full of flavour, serve with a drizzle of sriracha sauce, our Vegan Mayonnaise, our Vegan Ranch Dressing, or our Vegan Blue Cheese Sauce for the most epic meal!
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KFC Style Spicy Vegan Popcorn Chicken
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Equipment
Ingredients
Vegan Chicken
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup vital wheat gluten
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
Blender Ingredients
- 140 g extra-firm tofu, pressed and drained. Weigh it after pressed and drained
- 2/3 cup water
- 1 tbsp white miso paste
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/3 tsp poultry seasoning, recipe below
Simmering Broth
- 3 litres vegetable broth
Poultry Seasoning
- 4 tsp dried sage, ground
- 3 tsp dried thyme, ground
- 1 tsp dried marjoram, ground
- 2 tsp dried rosemary, ground
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp white pepper, freshly ground
Marinade
- 1 cup sriracha sauce, or Buffalo sauce (whichever you like more!)
Dredging
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp lemon pepper seasoning
Crust
Dry Ingredients
- 200 g potato chips, finely crushed
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup unsweetened soy milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 5 tbsp sriracha sauce, add less if you don't like it spicy
Deep-Frying
- Canola oil, to deep-fry
Serve with
- Vegan Mayonnaise, or Low-Calorie Healthy Cashew Vegan Mayonnaise
- sriracha sauce
- The Best Vegan Ranch Dressing EVER, recipe from our cookbook & e-book ALLPLANTS
- The Tastiest Vegan Blue Cheese Sauce EVER, recipe from our cookbook & e-book ALLPLANTS
Instructions
Poultry Seasoning
- In a small glass spice container, combine the ground dried sage, ground dried thyme, ground dried marjoram, ground dried rosemary, ground nutmeg, and freshly ground white pepper. Give it a mix. Store in a dark and dry place for up to 3 months.
Vegan Chicken
- Preheat the oven to 356ºF/180ºC.
- In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients and set aside.
- Press the tofu manually by wrapping the tofu with a kitchen towel, twisting, and squeezing hard until all water is out.
- In a high-speed blender, combine the crumbled pressed tofu and the rest of the blender ingredients. Blend until smooth and creamy.
- Scoop the blended ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine with a sturdy silicone spatula until a dough begins to form.
- Transfer the dough to a work surface and knead vigorously for around 5 minutes. Make sure it’s elastic enough to not tear when you stretch it apart. Make a few tests and if it breaks too easily, keep kneading, and try again. This is a very important step as the texture of the vegan chicken will absolutely depend on it.
- Use your hands to break the dough into bite-sized pieces. Flatten them with the palm of your hands. Stretch the dough and form it into the desired shape.
- Place them on a parchment paper-lined baking tray, and bake, uncovered, on the middle rack of the oven for 15 minutes.
- Bring the broth to a boil in a large pot.
- Place the vegan chicken pieces into the boiling broth and immediately reduce to a simmer. Leave the pot uncovered and simmer for 20 minutes. Monitor the pot to make sure it’s not boiling and turn occasionally.
- Remove the pot from the heat, cover, and let the pieces cool in the broth for a few hours until lukewarm.
- Transfer the vegan chicken pieces to a food storage bag or container and add the sriracha or Buffalo sauce inside it. Refrigerate overnight or up to 1 week. Chilling is very important. Do not omit this step.
Crust
- The next day, take the marinated vegan chicken pieces from the refrigerator.
- Crush the potato chips by placing them in a ziplock bag and smashing them with a rolling pin. Transfer them to a large bowl along with the remaining crust dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, smoked paprika, onion powder, and garlic powder), and mix through.
- In a medium bowl, combine the unsweetened soy milk and apple cider vinegar, and let sit for 5 minutes. This will create a "vegan buttermilk". Stir in the sriracha sauce and mix through.
- On a plate, combine the all-purpose flour and the lemon pepper seasoning. This will be used for dredging the vegan chicken.
- Carefully dredge the vegan chicken pieces in the flour, pressing the flour into them.
- Now follow by dipping them into the sriracha and vegan buttermilk mixture, and lastly dip into the potato chip mixture. Repeat until all the vegan chicken pieces are coated.
- In a large non-stick skillet, over medium-high heat, heat enough canola oil to be able to deep-fry the vegan chicken pieces. Deep-fry until golden, about 2 minutes per side, at 356ºF/180ºC.
- Serve with a drizzle of sriracha sauce, Vegan Mayonnaise, our Vegan Ranch Dressing, and Vegan Blue Cheese Sauce. Enjoy, they are delicious!
Notes
- Store in the refrigerator, in a sealed container, for up to 4 days.
Nutrition
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