Recipe: Yummy Healthier fried chicken

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Healthier fried chicken. Great news-crunchy, flavorful fried chicken can be healthy with this oven-fried chicken recipe. We marinate skinless chicken in buttermilk to keep it juicy. A light coating of flour, sesame seeds and spices, misted with olive oil, forms an appealing crust during baking.

Healthier fried chicken The chicken has the same crispy, golden texture as the fried version. Plus, no greasy mess to clean up. These Healthier Oven Fried Chicken Tenders are the perfect way to enjoy that fried chicken taste without all the fat! You can cook Healthier fried chicken using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Healthier fried chicken

  1. It's of Chicken thigh or breast.
  2. Prepare of Wheat cereal.
  3. It's 2 of x eggs.

Discovered this recipe years ago in a church cookbook and have been making it ever since. As I always like to point out, everyone has their own definition of "healthy". I think if you bake chicken instead of frying, and coat in coconut flakes and nuts instead of bread crumbs and cereal, you take fried chicken to the next level. Fried chicken gets a hearty kick of heat and a slash in calories and sodium with this healthy baked chicken recipe.

Healthier fried chicken instructions

  1. Marinate pieces of chicken with salt and pepper, herbs and olive oil for a 3h or more..
  2. Preheat oven at 180C for 15mins.
  3. Crush 3-4 cups of wheat cereal.
  4. Beat eggs in a bowl then dip chicken in egg mix, then coat with crushed cereal..
  5. Bake in oven for 20mins.

Serve the crispy chicken as they do in Nashville--with soft bread and dill pickle slices--or alongside a green salad with blue cheese dressing to help cool down the spiciness. Trust us―you won't miss any of it. Enjoy a healthier twist on your favourite Southern fried chicken with this clever recipe. Although baked rather than fried, the spicy buttermilk marinade and crunchy panko breadcrumb coating mean that the chicken remains beautifully tender inside yet crisp and golden on the outside. First off, "chicken is very often fried in trans fats, like partially hydrogenated oils," Kirkpatrick says, rather than healthier oils like olive and coconut.