If you love takeout but would rather make it at home then you need to whip up these KFC Bowls. With only 5 ingredients and only minutes to make it’s a quick and easy dinner recipe.
I have to admit that we get takeout way too much. When you cook food all day, sometimes just making dinner is a daunting task. But we have made it easier on ourselves.
We love to take some of our favorite restaurant recipes and recreate them at home. Some of our favorites include Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Texas Roadhouse Rattlesnake Bites and Wahlburgers Sloppy Joes!
Now when it comes to these KFC Bowls there is just so much ease to the recipe that it is one of our most made copycat dinner recipes that we make.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- 5 ingredients it all it takes!
- Whips up in under 20 minutes.
- You can make as much or as little as you’d like, it is so versatile.
I have 6 mouths to feed in this house, including myself and not a lot of time most days. So when I can throw together 5 ingredients in under 20 minutes then it is a win for me.
When they first released the KFC Bowls we instantly became addicted. My kids and husband would ask for them all the time, well that money really adds up!
So, why not make them at home?!?!
HOW TO MAKE KFC BOWLS:
- Make 6 servings of instant mashed potatoes (or make your own homemade).
- Cook popcorn chicken according to package.
- Heat up your corn in the microwave or on stovetop, your preference.
- Make your gravy, we use a brown gravy packet.
- Assemble bowls by layering potatoes, corn, chicken, gravy and then top with shredded cheddar cheese.
BOOM, you are done. That is all that goes into making this KFC Bowl recipe.
While this is such a simple recipe it does not lack in flavor. If you want to doctor up your mashed potatoes to give them little more flavor, go for it.
We regularly add some sour cream, top the tater, garlic salt, etc to give them a little more flavor, so really just do what you like best!
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING KFC BOWLS:
- You can use instant mashed potatoes or make your own homemade version.
- You can also use Mac and cheese for this recipe as KFC also has a Mac and cheese bowl, just omit the corn and gravy.
- You can use chicken strips for this recipe, just cut them into pieces to top bowls.
- We use beef gravy, but you can use your favorite gravy.
So if you’re looking for a quick and easy dinner, lunch or anytime meal then you need to whip up these KFC Bowls and call it a day!
If you like this recipe you might also like:
- Applebee’s Honey Pepper Chicken Mac and Cheese
- Cheesecake Factory Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake
- Olive Garden Lemon Crumb Cake
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Copycat KFC Bowls
Ingredients
- 6 servings mashed potatoes
- 1 24 oz package popcorn chicken cooked
- 1 15 oz can corn drained and heated
- 1 pkg beef gravy cooked
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Make 6 servings of instant mashed potatoes (or make your own homemade).
- Cook popcorn chicken according to package.
- Heat up your corn in the microwave or on stovetop, your preference.
- Make your gravy, we use a brown gravy packet.
- Assemble bowls by layering potatoes, corn, chicken, gravy and then top with shredded cheddar cheese.
Notes
- You can use instant mashed potatoes or make your own homemade version.
- You can also use Mac and cheese for this recipe as KFC also has a Mac and cheese bowl, just omit the corn and gravy.
- You can use chicken strips for this recipe, just cut them into pieces to top bowls.
- We use beef gravy, but you can use your favorite gravy.
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
Alex
It really concerns me when people complain about recipes being ‘bland’ because they don’t know how to season their own food…
Like, just bc it’s not in the recipe doesn’t mean you shouldn’t season it with SOMETHING. I mean salt and pepper, garlic salt, Italian seasoning, onion power, lemon pepper, hot sauce, ranch, etc. Seasoning your food isn’t altering a recipe. Obvs if you don’t add anything then it’s going to be pretty bland.
Megan
I feel that this could have been better had you opted to make a gravy from scratch – like the KFC Copycat gravy vs. using a packet/can/jar, etc… the flavor just isn’t there to be copycat bowls. But with that said, this is a cheap and easy/fast way to make the bowls.
Tornadough Alli
You can easily make your own gravy if you would like 🙂 we wanted to keep it as simple as possible.
Cheri
Fast and easy
Cathy
Can these be frozen and reheat.
Tornadough Alli
I do not recommend doing that.
Summer
I’m giving this one 5 stars bc my kids and hubby loved it! The only difference I made was for the hubby- I used hot sauce dipped chicken bites bc he likes everything spicy. I used Tyson regular popcorn bites for the kids. Im not a big fan of making something like this often bc everything in it is processed and I’m trying to stay away from a lot of that, but once in a while is ok. I guess I could have made my own potatoes instead of using instant, but time was an issue. Thanks for sharing your version of this recipe. I want to try the Olive Garden chicken and gnocchi soup next. I absolutely LOVE it!
Susan Mann
If you make your own chicken, how do you prepare the chicken?
Tornadough Alli
I have not made my own chicken for this recipe unfortunately. You could however search for homemade popcorn chicken recipes. If you do make your own chicken, let me know how it turns out 🙂
Nicole
I do a super quick way. I put flour and seasoning into a bowl first, mix. I then toss cut chicken into bowl and evenly coat. I then either pan fry in a small amount of oil or bake in the oven because it’s quicker. I grind my own grains so the flour is whole grain and use either coconut oil or pure lard or Tallow to fry. I do not believe lard of tallow is unhealthy. There is a saturated fat myth. Crisco is hydrogenated and super unhealthy.
Esperanza
Love uit
Sue
Just like you I love ed KFC bowls and couldn’t get enough so when I seen your recipe on copy cat recipes I was so happy and I loved it thank you.
Angelica
Loved it. Do you have the recipe for the spicy sauce??? Hope you do thanks.
Shaelyn
Absolutely LOVED this. Very quick and easy assembly. My husband is a lover of all food and he almost yelled with joy when he seen I made the homemade bowl version of KFC. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Judy
I use the Bob Evans bagged mashed potatoes and this is so easy to put together! Yum
Ted S Smith
Omg … yummy, made this tonight and it was much cheaper and less expensive than kfc
Amy
The cafeteria at the school where I teach makes these, and they’re better than KFC’s. These are so good with some salsa, hot sauce, or Taco Bell sauce. Yummy!
Faith
At the school I went to for high school about every Thursday we had popcorn chicken bowl for lunch and it was literally my favorite meal of the school year and of the week. My friends my junior year would get the same thing as me but they were just take the chicken off of it and give the rest of the chicken bowl to me and I would quite literally end up eating six popcorn chicken bowls every Thursday affectively my junior year of high school. And it didn’t bother me the least bit because I didn’t gain an ounce.