KFC is testing vegetarian plant based fried chicken

KFC says it’s cooking up a new, healthier recipe, one that will be missing the restaurant chain’s most famous ingredient – chicken – in the UK.

While the chicken will be gone, the signature blend of herbs and spices will still be there.

“Development of the recipe is still in its very early stages, and so the options we’re exploring in our kitchen are still top secret,” a spokesman for KFC told The New York Times. “Once we’ve perfected the recipe, we aim to test with customers this year, and if all goes well, we hope to launch a new vegetarian option in 2019.”

For now, it looks like this vegetarian option will only launch in the UK since the spokesman declined to comment on whether KFC had plans to roll it out globally.

The New York Times