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KFC Original Honey BBQ Sandwich

$4.99 650 cal

Our KFC Chicken Sandwich with an Extra Crispy filet dunked in our Original Honey BBQ sauce, topped with pickles and Colonel's mayo on a toasted bun.

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The KFC Original Honey BBQ Sandwich costs $4.99 and carries 650 cal. An Extra Crispy filet is dunked in Honey BBQ sauce, then finished with pickles and mayo on a brioche bun. Dunked is the operative word. Where the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich brushes its sauce on, this one goes in, so the crust softens and the sandwich eats closer to pulled pork than to fried chicken. That is either what you came for or a disappointment, and it is worth knowing which before you order.

It is the only sweet sandwich on the Sandwiches & Wraps menu. Honey does most of the talking, with smoke and vinegar behind it, and the pickles are there to stop the whole thing tipping into dessert. At $4.99 it is priced level with the Nashville Hot and below the Classic Chicken Sandwich. It suits someone who does not want heat at all, which is a gap the rest of the lineup leaves wide open. Check how it compares on sugar in the nutrition calculator.

Pairs Well Together

Mac & Cheese is carried by 21 of the restaurants we sampled, which makes it the safest thing to add.

$4.99 Original Honey BBQ Sandwich $2.99 Mac & Cheese

Combo Total

$7.98 790 cal

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KFC Original Honey BBQ Sandwich Recipe

Two jobs here: fry a good fillet, and make a Honey BBQ sauce that is not simply sweet. KFC's version has vinegar and smoke doing quiet work behind the honey, and leaving those out is what makes most homemade attempts taste like a candy bar on bread.

Prep25 min
Cook15 min
Total40 min
DifficultyMedium
Servings
4

Ingredients

Chicken and brine

Coating

Honey BBQ sauce

To assemble

Method

0 of 6 steps

Tips

  • Make the sauce a day ahead if you can. The vinegar and smoke need time to settle behind the honey, and fresh sauce tastes flatter and sweeter.
  • Simmer it until it coats a spoon. Thin sauce runs off the fillet and soaks the bun.
  • Keep the pickles. Every test of this sandwich without them ends the same way.

Variations

  • Add 1 tsp of chipotle in adobo for smoke with a little heat behind it.
  • Swap half the honey for maple syrup for a darker, less floral sweetness.
  • Brush instead of dunking if you want the crust to survive.

Serve it with

  • Plain fries rather than a sweet side.
  • Cole slaw, which cuts sugar as well as it cuts fat.
  • Extra sauce on the side. A restaurant sandwich runs $4.99 and comes sauced once.

A home version of Original Honey BBQ Sandwich. It is our own recipe, not KFC's, and the Original Recipe blend stays a trade secret.

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Original Honey BBQ Sandwich Questions

$4.99, the same as the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich and less than the Classic Chicken Sandwich.

650 cal. The sauce carries sugar rather than fat, so it lands close to the Classic on calories despite tasting much sweeter.

Not at all. It is the only sandwich in the lineup with no heat in it, which is precisely the reason to order it over the Spicy Chicken Sandwich or the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich.

Somewhat, by design. The filet is dunked rather than brushed, so the coating softens. If you want the crust intact, ask for the sauce on the side and add it yourself.

Something plain rather than something sweet. Secret Recipe Fries work better here than a sugary side does, and Cole Slaw cuts the sweetness the way it cuts fat elsewhere.

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