KFC Potato and Gravy is known for the soft, creamy mashed potato doused with their signature gravy, perfect for dunking in crusty Fried Chicken and fries. Now here’s a recipe to make it at home! (Except with real ingredients – no potato flakes here!)
Serve with everything.
KFC Potato and Gravy
This recipe is here by reader demand!
And this is the photo that started it all – Fried Chicken being dunked in a bowl of what I call my copycat KFC Potato and Gravy. Readers spied it in the recipe video and saw photos in the post. I casually offered it up – “let me know if you want the recipe!” – and the people have spoken. The recipe is here!
The gravy tastes just like KFC and takes 4 minutes flat to make! Here is the recipe.
The mashed potato is softly creamy, as opposed to dense-creamy. Soft enough so you can swipe and fistful of chips through it!
Though I suspect KFC Mashed Potato is made with reconstituted potato flakes, I prefer mine be made with real potatoes.😇
What you need for KFC Potato and Gravy
I’ve shared the Gravy recipe separately because actually, it’s my everyday gravy made from scratch (ie no pan drippings from roasts) with just hot water for the liquid. It is very, very good and I use it for “everything”! So I wanted to file it separately.
And here’s what you need for the KFC Mashed Potato.
How to make KFC Mashed Potato
The unique thing about KFC Mashed Potato is how it’s creamy but soft. Soft enough to dunk chips and fluffy white rolls!
Here’s the method I use to achieve that beautiful soft texture – using real potatoes, no potato flakes!
Potato Ricer = soft, fluffy, creamy texture
The only way to truly achieve the signature soft, fluffy creamy texture with minimal lumps is to use a potato ricer (pictured in step 3 below).
A stand mixer or hand held beater will activate the starch in potatoes and make it more dense and heavy so I don’t recommend that.
If you don’t have a potato ricer, the next best alternative is a potato masher with holes in the mashing end (because it yields a similar effect to the potato ricer).
What to serve with KFC Potato and Gravy
How long is a piece of string? 😂😂😂
OK, just a few ideas – here we go!
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KFC style! Dunk in Fried Chicken, warm bread rolls, hot chips, wedges
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Any roast – roast chicken, pork roast with incredible crackling, marinated roast beef or a Prime Rib/Standing Rib Roast, or the most incredible slow cooked Lamb Leg….
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Barbecue Pork Ribs – imagine meat falling off the bone and a sticky barbecue sauce!
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Midweek meals – try it on the side of Sticky Baked Chicken Thighs, juicy Baked Chicken Breast, Marinated Pork Chops, Lamb Chops, the Meatloaf of your dreams or the best Rissoles of your life!
And if all that choice is just too overwhelming for you, just grab a spoon and dig straight in. SO GOOD! – Nagi x
Watch how to make it
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KFC Potato and Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 batch homemade KFC Gravy
- 1.5kg/ 3lb Sebago (Aus dirt brushed), Russet (US), Maris Piper (UK) or other starchy potatoes
- 1 tbsp salt (for water)
- 75g (5 tbsp) unsalted butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup (125ml) cream (heavy / thickened)
- 3/4 cup (185ml) milk, full fat
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Peel and cut potatoes into 3cm / 1.25" cubes.
- Place in a pot, add 1 tbsp salt and water so it's 5cm / 2" above potatoes.
- Bring water to a boil, then boil for 15 minutes until potatoes are very soft and starting to fall apart.
- Drain, leave in colander to steam dry for 3 minutes.
- Meanwhile, melt butter in a saucepan over medium high heat. Add cream and milk, heat until just before simmer - do not let it boil. Remove from stove.
- Pass potato through a potato ricer (Note 1) or use a masher with holes. Do not use beater - will make it dense.
- Add hot milk mixture, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper. GENTLY stir until mixed through.
- Taste for salt and pepper, add more if needed.
- Transfer into serving bowl. Pour over Gravy and serve immediately with anything and everything!
- For a KFC at home experience, serve with homemade Fried Chicken (it's better than KFC!)
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Life of Dozer
Torrential rains in Sydney -> at my mother’s house without Dozer’s raincoat -> Dozer needs to pee -> makeshift raincoat using my mother’s poncho and…errr….. ribbon from a present?? 😂
Tried tonight and it’s yummy. The potato is really nice and smooth.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it Kathryn!! N x
Are you serious??? I must admit I make pretty good mashed potato and always make my gravy from scratch but, WOW, am I impressed with these recipes!! I am ashamed to admit that on rare occasions we do have KFC and I love their potato and gravy pots. Your recipes for these are amazing I could seriously become addicted, in fact, I think I am after only one cook. I was spooning the gravy on left over potato and eating straight from the saucepan. Shame on me!!! Thank you Nagi.
I’m not judging – I think we all secretly do this 😏 N x
Hi
Enjoy reading your recipes, looking at the ‘how to” and then doing. Just wondering with the KFC mashed potato. I haven’t a potato ricer, would a grater be okay?
NerolieG
Hi Nerolie, you can just use a potato masher or even pass them through a sieve 🙂
Hi I made your gravy last night it was a flop just far to salty I added more water of course then it gets to wateryi am going to have another go using different stock cubes
Hi John, I’m so sorry you had issues here – what kind of stock cubes were you using? N x
Hi Nagi, I made the KFC style gravy tonight and It was DELICIOUS! We had it with leg ham (had no chicken) home made coleslaw and mashed potato. My gravy was a little pale so I added about 1 teaspoon of soy sauce (instead of salt) which made it a little darker in colour and it tasted great. Thank you for the recipe (plus, the idea I learned from you previously re using soy sauce in place of salt for colour and flavour 😉 Great gravy – and leftovers in the freezer for another meal!
Hi Kat – yes the colour can sometimes differ depending on the brand of beef cube used. I’m so glad you enjoyed it though! N x
OMG!!! I printed off your fried chicken recipe and then your lava cake recipe and now the gracy recipe!!!!! I love you but my thighs are screaming at you!! I love that Dozer is wearing your mum’s clothes lol!!
And you’ll be one happy person when you make it 😉
And I love that I think I just came across someone who uses even more exclamation marks than ME!! 🤣🤣🤣
Yum, Yum, Surrey YOU can do better than75 gr butter…..Love IT. Love Dozers New fashion. Send uš some rain as We Are having over acweek tropical humidity and half Of Day Gray heart CloudKit so depresing . Have good weekend.
You can take it Vera, I’ve had enough of it!!!
Poor Dozer! My girls have the same problem with their potty. Poor things. Rough when the bathroom is squishy and their fur gets wet. Hang in there Dozer. Hugs cutie.
It’s ridiculous isn’t it Cyndi!!?
I hate to get my clothes wet so I imagine they feel the same. Too close to getting a bath for mine I think.
Back to the recipe, I have a potato ricer but really had forgotten about it. Will use it next time I do mashed potatoes.
I would give 5 stars for your creamy mash and gravy, no doubt!! Because it is nice and certainly not KFC which is only saved by their gravy!
I love mash and gravy and I have eaten the KFC variety but it bears no relation to your lovely stuff!
Sorry to all the lovers of KFC mash and gravy!! 😂
It’s so much better to make your own from real ingredients – and you know exactly what’s in it too! N x
Poor Dozer. My Duchess is having same problems here in Tennessee. So Much Rain!!!
Oh no! Give Duchess a big belly rub from me ❤️
Nagi…….you know that Dozer looks GREAT in anything he wears. Always look for him when I come on-site. Take good care – both of you. And keep those wonderful recipes coming.
Oh he rocks a raincoat Gail!! 😂
Omg! I’ve got some serious drooling going on here 😍
It’s sooooo good Rabia, you must try it! N x
*asked with a sweet smile* How did Dozer manage to pee with ‘that raincoat’ hiding his family jewels ?
😂 He manages… Just!!!
Thursday noon news has just stated that after five days some 25,000 homes in your area are still without power which is not thought to be reinstated until well into the weekend ! And that depends on the cyclone staying away from Sydney coast and weakening ! Hoping for the best . . . or at least that you have been able to access a generator . . .
Would the steamer insert of a saucepan work as a potato ricer, if I pushed them thru there please? Thanks so much!
I think the holes are too big – you could always push it through a sieve if you have one! N x
Where is the gravy receipe?
It’s linked twice in the post. Just not in the recipe itself.
Hi Doug – here’s the link https://www.recipetineats.com/gravy/ N x