Vegan “Kentucky Fried Copy-Cat chicken” cauli pieces – Finger lickin’ good mumma !
This will be my last recipe for a few days, as we are moving house, tomorrow is the start of a series of D-Days !
So, I will keep it short and sweet. Look, I am a vegetarian, but still love my battered and crumbed things. And have pinched a little of the coating off other peoples fried chicken on occasion too. Nom nom.
This recipe is simply cauliflower and spices with a spray of oil …
Hope you enjoy it. A good one for a lazy weekend. Or where you just have to have a bit of crunch-time ! I’ve had quite a few people contact me privately asking about this type of thing, so here it is, you know who you are …
Vegan Fried KFC Copy Cat "chicken" pieces
2015-08-25 23:59:27
Yields 14
Crunchy, tasty, lip smacking good oven baked cauliflower "chicken" pieces.
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
35 min
Total Time
50 min
Batter
- 2 cups cauliflower florets, chopped
- 2 tbs KFC Copy Cat spice mix (approx half)
Crumb
- 4 cups cauliflower, riced
- 2 tbs KFC Copy Cat spice mix (approx half)
Cauli "chicken" pieces
- 7 cauliflower florets (2 cups), cut into 5cm square florets (approx)
- Olive oil spray
KFC Copy Cat Spice mix
- 1 tbs paprika
- 1/2 tbs onion salt
- 1/2 tsp celery salt
- 1/2 tsp dried sage
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1/2 tsp ground oregano
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp Herbamere or salt, to taste.
- (or you can use a suitable store bought chicken spice mix)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C (fan forced). Place oven tray you will use in the oven to preheat.
- First make the batter: Microwave cauliflower in 1/2 cup water for approx. 5 mins until soft then drain. Blitz until it forms a thick sauce consistency. Mix in the spice mix and season. Set aside.
- Secondly make the crumb: In another bowl, microwave the cauli rice for 4 mins. Tip into a tea towel and with dishwashing gloves on, twist and squeeze until much of the water is removed (this will give the outside the crunch & stop it being soggy). Tip back into the bowl and mix together with the leftover spice mix. Set aside to cool.
- Dip cauliflower "chicken" pieces in the batter, spooning over to give a generous coating. Then roll and coat in breadcrumbs (see pic). Remove tray from oven and place pieces on baking paper on the hot tray. Spray with olive oil spray.
- Bake in oven for 35 minutes, turning if needed at 20-25 mins. Serve warm with Fountain "Good Choice" BBQ, tomato or sweet chilli sauce or any other sauce to your liking.
Notes
- Needs to be eaten straight from the oven, they do go a bit soggy after sitting for a while
- If you don't have the spices noted in the mix above, buy a suitable chicken seasoning mix or whatever spice mix you like.
- Make sure you are reasonably heavy handed with the batter and the crumb, so the entire cauliflower piece is coated well.
- Not suitable to freeze or re-heat. You could freeze all the parts and then pull together at the last minute.
- Great for a weekend snack or if others in the house are having takeaway and you want something similar!
Adapted from Spice mix by sparkpeople.com
Adapted from Spice mix by sparkpeople.com
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