An Open Letter To Kfc: Regarding The Changes To Their Sweet And Sour Sauce
An article written by: Lee sonogan
Dear KFC, I want you to know your sweet and sour sauce was the greatest sweet and sour sauce compared to everywhere else. I have even been considering to make my own sweet and sour to make a carbon copy of your last version of this sauce. A friend knowing that I love your sweet and sour sauce had to tell me that they changed it. I did not believe him at first. What happened KFC?
I found the header image of this article from the website change.org. So this is a debate going on and I am not alone with this. If anyone taste tasted this sauce, you know what you did. The main two issues with the new sweet and sour sauce are it has lost its strong taste. One of the best elements of the former sauce and second is how it has a weird but good after taste.
This issue with the sauce is one of the main reasons I do not go to KFC anymore. Granted, KFC has some tasty crispy chicken. Sixty percent of the reason of getting KFC was the sauce. I would buy extra packs to try it on none KFC food. In conclusion, I do not see myself going to KFC for a while and why not just bring it back? It should not matter if it is more expensive to make or this new version of it is vegan or something. Just bring it back or at least make the original recipe available to the public.
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Kfc Sweet And Sour Dipping Sauce Cup Nutrition Facts
A KFC Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce Cup contains 45 calories, 0 grams of fat and 12 grams of carbohydrates.
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Keep reading to see the full nutrition facts and Weight Watchers points for a Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce Cup from Kentucky Fried Chicken.
What To Do With The Leftovers
Although this sweet sour sauce recipe makes a rather small batch, a little goes a long way, and we always have some leftovers. They keep well in the fridge we had them for at least one week before I scraped the last bits out of the jar.
My favorite way of using the leftovers of this sweet and sour sauce recipe is to smear them on a slice of good sourdough bread and top the bread with Camembert slices and salad leaves. So good, I would make myself a sandwich now if I only had some sweet and sour sauce in the fridge.
I have also stirred one or two teaspoons in this yogurt dressing for salad and had it as some kind of chutney substitute with lentil dal or curry.
Another idea would be to smear some puff pastry squares with it, top it with Camembert again and bake it until the cheese is nicely melted. Sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper and add some rocket on top just before serving. A beautiful appetizer or light meal.
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How To Make The Chicken Nuggets
One thing I have to mention now is that I pre-bake the panko breadcrumbs I use for making the chicken nuggets. I find that the short baking time that the chicken nuggets need is not long enough for the panko breadcrumbs to achieve nice golden color.
So, I pre-bake them for about 5-7 minutes or until nicely golden. The gold color should be light gold at this point after baking the chicken nuggets, the golden color will turn to a golden brown, the way its supposed to be.
Let the baked panko breadcrumbs cool completely before mixing them with the Parmesan cheese.
Throw In The Bowl And Mix
As I said, this is a throw in the bowl and mix kind of recipe. In a mixing bowl, add ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, onion juice, vinegar, tabasco sauce, mayonnaise, and chili sauce to it. Also, add black pepper, red pepper, vegetable oil, and garlic.
Mix all of them thoroughly using a whisk. Your Colonel Sanders Secret KFC sauce is ready. Serve it over salads, with chicken, or as a dressing for sandwiches. Colonel Sanders will be proud!
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Sweet And Sour Chili Sauce
KFC restaurants have a wide variety of sauces on their menus, so that each diner can choose the one that best suits their tastes. However, if you like it spicy, you should try the sweet and sour chili sauce. Its main ingredient is hot red pepper, which makes this sauce especially hot. Chili goes well with tender chicken, as well as potatoes. It adds a special sweet and sour touch to the main dish and enhances its flavor.
Kfc To Bring Back The Old Sweet And Sour Sauce
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Kentucky Fried Chicken known as KFC for short is an Australian loved favourite fast food restaurant with many locations across the country. KFC is known for its finger-lickin” good delicious fresh fast food. From crispy hot n spicy chicken, to their golden signature seasoned thick-cut chips. From getting the classic family feast for the choice of birthday dinner with the family, to enjoying a KFC meal while watching our favourite sports with the lads. We Australians love nothing more than getting a good old KFC feed for lunch, dinner and sometimes even breakfast
KFC please listen to the Australian people and go back to the original recipe of the sweet and sour sauce for the sakes of the Australia. Why fix something that isnt broken? Dont follow the trend of the other major companies thinking they are making a good change when it only leads to disappointment. I want every Australian KFC sauce lover to stand together and raise their chicken nuggets or secret herb n spiced chips in the air and to stand with me to get KFC to change back to their old sweet and sour sauce recipe.
Do it for the people.
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Finger Lickin’ Good Sauce
I hadn’t even heard of this sauce before my taste test, though I wouldn’t expect any other name from KFC. I’d heard that the sauce includes all of the 11 herbs and spices included in KFC’s original recipe, but I didn’t know what to expect in terms of taste. The sauce was a light brown, and when I tasted it, it started off sweet and ended with a flavor that reminded me of an herby pickle. Because of the spice blend, the taste was indeed reminiscent of the restaurant’s famous fried chicken coating. Still, it wasn’t my favorite.
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What Ingredients Will You Need To Make Colonel Sanders Secret Kfc Sauce
- Ketchup Ketchup adds a red color and a sweetlt tangy flavor to the KFC secret sauce.
- Mustard Mustard adds a bittersweet spicy taste to the sauce.
- Worcestershire Sauce Add the umami flavor to your secret sauce with some Worcestershire sauce.
- Onion Juice and Garlic We all love that warm allum flavor in our food. Add that flavor to the sauce with some onion juice and garlic.
- Black Pepper and Red Pepper For the spicy warmth, add some red and black pepper.
- Tabasco Sauce and Chili Sauce Make the sauce hot and spicy with some tabasco and chili sauce.
- Mayonnaise Tone down the spice with mayonnaise. Itll also make the sauce creamy.
- Vegetable Oil Add a little fat to the sauce with some vegetable oil.
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Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe
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Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe is super simple and makes a great dipping and cooking sauce with little effort and minimal ingredients.
Quick & Simple Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe
This Simple Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe truly is simple. While not completely authentic, it is great when you are in a pinch and need a delicious dipping sauce or baking sauce for a customized meal. Have some chicken or pork, or even beef, but dont want the same old boring meal, make some of this Simple Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe and pour over your meat and bake as usual.
This recipe pairs with my Air Fryer Chinese Take-Out Sweet N Sour Pork recipe. It makes a great dipping sauce for all kinds of finger food and goes great with my Air Fried Chicken Wings, chicken nuggets, eggrolls, Fried Zucchini, chicken strips and so on. Turn this Air Fryer Chic-fil-A Chicken Sandwich recipe into Chicken Strips and youve got yourself a wonderful meal with some Delicious Air Fryer French Fries.
Cast of Ingredients for Simple Sweet N Sour Sauce Recipe
Almost ten years ago, I found a recipe on line for Sweet N Sour Chicken and have been making it ever since. I typed up the recipe and saved it into my private recipe folder. The recipe has been changed to my taste buds, as I wanted to equally taste the sweet with the sour.
How To Serve
I always make it to serve it with chicken nuggets and oven potatoes. I never make fries at home, we are generally not big fans, and if we really need some, we get plenty of opportunities of eating good fries at any village celebration there is.
You can only get bratwurst or currywurst and fries or white bread rolls there. So, I save my fries cravings for those occasions God knows there are plenty of them!
Instead of fries, I always make oven potato wedges, a very simple and delicious affair involving only some potatoes and some spices. Cut the potatoes into wedges or sticks, rub them with a little oil and lots of spices of choice, and put them in the oven. Depending on their thickness, they will need a bit more or less than half an hour.
And then come to the chicken nuggets I have made them so often, that I could prepare them in my sleep.
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Why It Works
- Pineapple juice furnishes the sauce’s fruity flavor, while ketchup boosts its sweetness and provides the signature red color.
- A slurry of cornstarch and water thickens the sauce to an appropriately viscous consistency.
Editors Note: This recipe originally appeared as part of the Sauced series that explored recipes for popular side sauces.
High school was all about strip mall Chinese and large plates of sweet and sour chicken. I was so fond of the stuff, I scoured used book stores for any cookbook with a good looking sweet and sour sauce recipe. I wish I could find the one I finally decided onit documents all my adjustments to the original recipe. But years later, I’ve settled on one that isn’t too far off.
While sweet and sour can be found in diverse forms in China, the American version builds upon the simple mixture of sugar, vinegar, and spices with the addition of fruit juicemost commonly pineappleand ketchup, giving the sauce both its red hue and uniquely Western flavor.
Serious Eats / Debbie Wee
Unlike my duck sauce, which felt like an improvement on the take-out version, this recipe is more or less what you’d expect from anything labeled “sweet and sour.”
It has the fruity base with rice vinegar providing the sour, and brown sugar adding the sweet. It’s thickened with a cornstarch slurry that brings the whole thing to the thick, gelatinous consistency that’s a requirement in my mind.
