This summer back home in Sydney, a friend shared with me a viral recipe known as Devil Cooked Rice made with KFC. Immediately, as a fan of KFC for life (one of my first road trips in the US was a visit to the first-ever KFC in Kentucky!), I had to see what this was all about.
Caption: A photo of the exterior of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken where Colonel Sanders invented KFC in North Korbin, Kentucky. (Local Guide Karen N)
I saw that it only took 5 minutes to prepare and 5 ingredients (most of which I had in my kitchen), and so I knew that I just had to try it. Thankfully, it lives up to all the hype I’ve been such an ambassador for KFC rice ever since!
Now that I’m back in New York, I figured that it was time to recreate this where KFC originated. This has quickly become one of my most asked about and shared recipes. Today I’d like to share this with my fellow Local Guides as a fun and delicious dish to try sometime.
All you’ll need for this is water (to rinse the rice), rice, chicken broth, soy sauce and of course, KFC.
Rice. Measure out 1 cup of rice (makes ~2 bowls) and prepare as you normally would (make sure to rinse the rice out a few times!) and place it inside your rice cooker (or if you don’t have one, you can use a InstantPot, or even use a saucepan on a stovetop)
Chicken broth. Measure out 1.5 cups of chicken broth. Add it to your rice cooker, InstaPot or saucepan.
Soy sauce. Measure out 1 teaspoon and add it to your rice cooker, InstantPot or saucepan.
KFC. Add in 3 pieces of original chicken to your rice cooker, InstantPot or saucepan.
Time to cook the rice as you normally would, and once that’s done, take out the KFC and remove the bones then mix everything together and enjoy!
Caption: A photo of the interior of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken where Colonel Sanders invented KFC in North Korbin, Kentucky. (Local Guide Karen N)
It’s unbelievable how easy this is to make, and yet how delicious and unlike any other chicken rice dish you might ever try.
If you do make this at home, let me know how it goes!
@karenng I blame you for the delicious KFC order I placed just to make this Devil Cooked Rice! Here’s how mine came out and as you know, I used boneless chicken over the bone-in to reduce the amount of time I had to wait to eat it. For a variation, here’s how my rice looked after I made it breakfast rice by adding a scrambled egg:
I also let @HiroyukiTakisawa know about this and while he lives in Japan, he hadn’t ever heard of it but he tried it, too. I can’t wait to see who else makes this!
It is very simple to do, thanks for the recipe, I will … a great experience knowing where this chain of fast food restaurants starts, thanks for sharing!
As fan or a regular of KFC . My attention was immediately drawn to the post. Excited to have a recipe on Devil cooked rice , rice and chicken are my favourite. and @ karenng thanks for sharing. I will surely try my hands on it once I returned home.
It looks like fried rice but easier to cook than that. And it’s easy to make a few adjustments to your preference like Traci. Of course, the taste is obviously nice
I will try this recipe @karenng more interesting in this post is pictures of original KFC and history of col sanders works, that’s knowledgeable. #LetsGuide
RASHAYS-Darling Harbour in Sydney serves a delicious lunch menu; Hand-crumbed Chicken breast and Chips with creamy Mushroom sauce and some fresh wild Rocket. I have it last month.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I bookmarked it right away.
You know, knowing KFC for the first time in Germany where I was born we don’t have rice there. There was only one KFC branch where you had root beer and only in that one at all.
For which reason I don’t know they swapped it to some other soda.
I’ll try your recipe the next days for sure.
Greetings from Turkey
…by the way are you seriously blowing snow on your profile avatar
These days this recipe is really getting viral and obviously I will try it
Thanks a lot @HiroyukiTakisawa for the tag, I am getting more and more curious about it taste. Today we have eaten chicken , so next time we will cook it, I will follow this recipe.
I have added the soya while eating but never while cooking the rice. It is not an ingredient that is used in Spanish cuisine, so I am learning .
I can’t wait to see who else makes this!
I will definitely try
