Popeyes Chicken Sandwich | Copycat Recipes

what's up everybody and welcome back to my channel smoking and grilling with me a B that's right you guys seen the title so you know what I'm doing I'm doing the popeyes chicken sandwich you know what this is just another iron in the fire you know with my copycat playlist so this is we're gonna do all of the major brand copycat you know replicas we're gonna do it old but right now it's all about this chicken sandwich and I'm gonna make one that I think that you know that they should make anyway so I don't know what we gonna call it but we'll figure it out you know throughout this video now listen I'm not gonna over talking the ingredients we finna get right into and I'm just get ready to show you guys just how easy it is to make so with that being said let's get right into these ingredients so now you guys see everything right you can see some of it I got some stuff over here that might be like out of the camera view right now but the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over these ingredients but we're gonna start off with this are just gonna be our dried mix right so I'm gonna start off by just showing you look we got to have some salt the reason I tell you that it's up to you guys how much salt you want to put in because some of us are watching our sodium but I might just say it's gonna be somewhere right around a tablespoon you know a salt going into your flour right so we got Creole seasoning now listen this is a just the Creole seasoning I like because it has a lot less sodium than all of the other brands out here just that Creole kick so Creole kick you're gonna see that a lot of times I'm gonna use that with salt because you can add what you need and not be forced to use what the hell all right we got black pepper here we got paprika then here we got cayenne pepper no this right here this is key this is corn starts gotta have it if you're looking for that Chris penis you got to have cornstarch and then of course you got to have your flour right so again this is just what what i madrid's everything in now I'll just show you that now right here I got two chicken halves what I did was I bought a big pack and these are chicken breasts right here listen they kind of big so what I did was I just separate you know and these right here I'm probably gonna be able to get four out of this you know for burgers out of that and then for myself I got some bone-in you know chicken thighs right i'ma debone one for myself and I'm gonna make mine out of chicken thigh and we're gonna just look at the difference and taste it then of course you know you got to have brioche buns right got those right here male and then Popeyes you know they put some pickles on the bottom so I got some pickles right here these ain't gonna be authentic deal these right here is a bread and butter if you guys don't know if I can breathe that bread and butter you better age trust me what I tell you this right here is the fire all right now let me show you the rest okay look I got a meat tenderizer - I'm explaining all of that once we get into that and let me just finish these ingredients and now over here for look this right here is what we gonna put our chicken in and we're gonna put this in the we're gonna put our chicken once we get this together we're gonna put it in the refrigerator right so you got to have three eggs which is right here you got three eggs this right here I got a little bit less than 1/4 cup of our hot sauce and then right here I got some sauce some kosher salt and then right here we got buttermilk you know we got two cups now you guys look don't forget down in the description box below this video I'll have the full ingredient list broke down by the flour mix you know our marinade slabs brine you know things like that so don't forget down in the description box below okay first thing we're gonna do is we don't get our buttermilk you know my mixture together right so let's just go ahead and just put two eggs in it you know these three eggs let's crack them I can hear some of y'all saying hey B you know you're supposed to crack your eggs somewhere else you know to check them to make sure that they don't uh you know the thing not bad and then you want to make sure you got yourself a whisk now for the buttermilk then we're gonna come with our hot sauce you guys can use whatever hot sauce you like you're not I mean are one of the things you guys probably don't know about me is or some of you guys know that me and hot sauce we we okay all right hey look so now we're gonna add just this salt to it just that kosher salt just put this inside of here we're gonna whisk it together once we whisk it we just want to get it mixed up you can see the color gonna start changing a little bit make sure these yolks are broken and I don't know why I like to be the healing blender imma show it to you like this I just like to turn this like this you know I mean break those jokes and you get to see everything kind of like you know break and mixing in you know together hey you know what i'ma tell you this to this and it's key to have like the right equipment you'll hear me say that in all of the videos you know what I mean just having the right tools for the job makes your job so much easier all the way down to your you know to cooking so got this mixed up you can see that right now bring it close feet uh I'm gonna set this off to the side right here now we can really work on this chicken I've already rinsed off my chicken and did everything look you can see this is how come we're gonna do a little trim you know you might want to leave it on but like I like to just say this for video purposes hey you know I'm saying we just gonna clean it up that's all all right look I got trimmed up it looks cool now look let me just say it like just so we can understand it I mean this little stuff right here I'm gonna take off of it if I wasn't filming I probably wouldn't take that door a little fat off all right I just want to show you this let me fix the camera so you guys can see it all right so we can just get an up-close-and-personal look at it if you look at this part of my hand right here and we all know when when you buy a chicken breasts look thicker here and then it tapers down and gets T in here so what I'm gonna say is listen we're gonna have to eat the flat mat or some of you guys if you don't flatten you know I mean maybe you don't have a meat tenderizer you know if you don't listen some people might just elect to cut it you know if they if it's all even it cooks evenly so meaning let's just say I wanted this to reach a certain temperature this would have reached there quicker and that mean this is gonna be dried out and all that don't forget this is a breast right so what I'm gonna do is tell you listen we're gonna take it and we finna beat it out of it all right hold on what I like to do is just get yourself some other saran wrap just put it over the top right now look you got two sides I use this for like the beef and things like that that you want to get it tender rise but this here we just for the smash so let's use the mallet side behind it so just take it right here that's good look now look how big that is you know look at that nice and round you can see the bun sitting on it let's go have all of the crust on there oh yeah and there you have it so I'm not gonna do nothing else what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna go ahead and get to do the other ones and then after that we'll move over to the next step okay in here what I did was I just went ahead and debone my chicken thigh right so I'm gonna take this and I'll put it into my buttermilk along with the rest of the pieces now let me just bring this over here so you guys can see you can see I got them all in here they soaking so I'm gonna put them in the fridge we're gonna put them in there for about four hours now I don't put nothing in the refrigerator just uncovered like that right so hit it with some saran wrap as you guys can see not like the need his job but you know how to saran wrap he is now we going in for four hours now what you want to do is get yourself a large bowl right or whatever station you guys are gonna put together and you just want to put all of your dry ingredients in the bowl you know it just like super easy not trying to make it difficult and no certain order or whatever just put them all in there then you want to get yourself a whisk and then you're gonna mix it together now earlier when I showed it to you guys I had Hattie where it was on the salt was next to the dry ingredients but I'm telling you now just from experience from past experience when I was just making a regular chicken silence I just know us at table is pulling us off and especially when you're using that Creole kick you just want to use that listening it balances out perfectly and I already know that I like to see you know pepper flakes in there so I add that also now look I'm going to show you two different options you know those of us that have like deep fryers I'm loving mighty fall you know this tea fall deep fryer right here I'm gonna go ahead and deep fry it in this but I'm gonna show you guys another option which would be for all of those who don't have it what you can do is get yourself a pot right you just want to pop this deep enough you're going to need one of these trainers right here to go ahead and scoop out your chicken you know once it's ready and then listen if you can get yourself one of these candy thermometers listen this is how you gonna measure you know the temperature of your oil Hey real simple set up you're not I mean uh this doesn't cost nothing really need this and you're gonna need this and you already have this this can be whatever and this right here is adjustable on the back you guys can see that look so how big how it deep your potty is you got that happening so I'll just put it back like this and I'll just show you how easy it is you know to put it on that's it and then we're gonna be cooking this at about 350 degrees really about 3:30 I start off at 350 but once I add the chicken in there I did not just sit down at about 3:30 because listen it's called cooldown anyway you know from putting it in there so this is option number two this is option number one now once you come out of the refrigerator and you're done marinating you get everything set up so listen I use one hand that I pick everything up with this is the hand that touches the you know the Bryant's last marinade then I drop it into the flour and I use my other hands you're gonna go ahead and put listen it's already laying down flat so I put you know I put some flour on the top and then I mash it in there look I'm gonna do it again so you guys can see this right here is key look notice that I'm putting it on the top right then I flip it over because you want to get it completely covered and then watch what I do I take it and I'm a sit down that way when I pick it up I can look and see any any any of the cracks in the chicken or whatever and make sure that it's completely coated and if it needs more like it did right there I just add some more and Pat it in there and then you just want to give it a shake and whatever falls off falls off and other than that you put it on your pan on your your baking rack right there and you let it sit up and it should look just like that I let it sit for at least five to eight minutes I go on and move on to the next thing all right you can see look it's not a whole lot to it look we got mail we got a had them pickles and then we got to this brioche buns right but the thing is listen I'm getting ready to toast these but before I do that let's go ahead and get these and the oil my oil say is ready so let's get it now now that we got our oil it's already reached 350 degrees you know what I do is I always hold it up and I like to just like move it back and forth and then when I release it into the oil notice as I release it away from me that's off to the side but that's still not towards me that way I don't catch any splatter and what you're seeing me do right now is since I'm using that basket and they kind of be I like to look at them to make sure they're not touching you know I mean you don't want like one big mush alright so now you want to check it and make sure you got at least 165 degrees you know in the thickest part of the breast and after that now it's time and oh and you can see right there that they already toasted right so listen you got to toast your buns and then I hit it with just a male but look for mine this is what I like I like to make my own thing I usually use like a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise you know a little bit of that ketchup I come with some relish and a little mustard I do salt in our pepper listens been making this for years listen we don't buy Thousand Island dressing we use that a Bissell's dressing right here that right here hey I'm gonna bottle it up and sell that peso anyway look I mix that up and then I'm gonna put that on the bun that you guys the seat it doesn't have anything on it that's the one and I'm gonna go ahead and put that chicken so those chicken thighs on that right tier is gonna do it I started to put some cheese on there or something like that you know just to make it like flossy but I ain't gonna lie to you hey I make them like this and sometime when we don't have bus hey listen we go ahead and just use bread don't judge me folks all right so now we just go ahead and do the assembly Hey super simple right supposed to be the Popeyes a copycat chicken sounds right so that's it you got the mayonnaise you know what you got your pickles then you got your breasts or you can use thigh and then you put that bun on the top Hey just super easy I hope you guys like this and I hope you guys want to see more because I enjoy doing this and enjoy this so tell me what you guys think you know where it's super easy I'm gonna be honest with you it's more of a chore for me to film it than it is to actually make it you can probably make these I'm gonna say everything with your prep outside of it after you are you did your bow your brine or something like that way I'm gonna say man this all comes together in the bottom I'm gonna say anywhere between 12 and 15 minutes you know what just super easy and you know what it's excellent if you guys got company you put these out everybody gonna remember that whole big old craze about whose chicken sandwich is better than what or whatever hey but all they're talking listen I'm not gonna eat the ones with the UH with the chicken breast because it listen those are accounted for by the people that's behind this camera so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and take a bite of mine and so here we go here it is you know it this is my version man mouth is watering folks hmm I can't see it's nothing about it I don't even how to close this off I look at you know how to close this a video you know I mean hey listen hey just hey try it I gave you guys ingredients they use it on your regular chicken because this right here is the one so with that being said can't quit thinking about you know where I see a food truck with these uh with your chicken sandwiches on there and I'm slinging these all throughout the west coast hey anyway check it out so listen if you new to my channel let me just say hey thank you for watching this video and you know what I want you guys to let me know down in the comment section below if you want to see more of these you know what I love to encourage me listen I'm having fun and I hope you guys are too you know what if we just broaden our horizon making fun recipes throughout the 2020 so with that being said don't forget again don't forget to Like subscribe and tell everybody out there there's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking and you know how about to get out of here folks 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