Help me make KFC chicken for my son

[guildingthelily]

My son has asked me to make fried chicken, like you get from KFC. As a vegetarian, I've no idea what to do or what it should look like. My son says I can do in the air fryer? Would love to hear from you wise mumsnetters with experience of this type of thing.

If you don’t want to make it, Aldi have the whole KFC dupe range in at the minute from chicken to chips and beans

KFC is me weakness.

Does he want chicken with the bone in or boneless? Either way the air fryer can be used but it won't be the same. Boneless will be easier in the air fryer, you can make perfectly nice coated chicken in the air fryer but it won't be the same as KFC, I wouldn't even bother trying with bone in chicken in the air fryer as it releases a lot of fat whilst cooking which just makes it soggy.

KFC uses pressure air fryers but I've just used a dutch oven similar to this method

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I do regularly cook coated chicken strips in the air fryer which is delicious but it's not like KFC so when my cravings hit I just order one.