Healthiest southern-fried chicken

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6 servings Prep: 10 mins, Cooking: 50 mins
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Poultry

By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (7)

250.00 ml Buttermilk
10.00 ml Tabasco sauce — or chilli sauce (optional)
3.00 chicken breast fillets — on the bone, halved
750.00 ml cornflakes
190.00 ml flour — self-raising
10.00 ml Cajun spice
0.00 olive oil — spray
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Method:

Combine buttermilk and Tabasco sauce in a heavy-duty, resealable plastic bag.
Add chicken and seal bag.
Chill at least four hours; turn bag occasionally to marinate well.
Preheat oven to 200 &degC.
Crush cereal into crumbs in a food processor.
Pour into a shallow dish and stir in flour and seasoning.
Remove chicken from buttermilk, letting excess drip off.
Dredge chicken in cereal mixture and arrange pieces, bone-side down, on a shallow baking tray sprayed with olive oil cooking spray.
Coat tops of chicken lightly with cooking spray.
Bake on bottom shelf of oven for 20 minutes.
Use a wide, metal spatula to carefully loosen and turn chicken.
Coat undersides with cooking spray and bake 15 minutes.
Loosen and turn chicken again, coat top side with cooking spray again, and bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until juices run clear when chicken is pierced.
Note: to cook skinless, boneless chicken, batter as directed above, but bake just 20 minutes a side.
Per serving: one chicken breast half) 1 300 kJ; 2 g fat; 25 g carbs; 42 g protein; 0,7 g fibre.



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