Oven fried chicken

By
Nathalie
 – April 28, 2010Posted in: All, Food, Recipes
Oven fried chicken

My husband requested that I make him fried chicken for dinner. I agreed, and then when I looking at the amount of oil it would take to fry up the chicken, I decided to look for a more healthful alternative. I discovered that there is a delightful treat called oven fried chicken, so I looked over a couple of recipes I found online, and then decided to create my own version of it once I figured out the basic steps.

I found that it was important to have a well-organized prep station for this meal, since it was pretty messy to work on. I rinsed my chicken (I only used drumsticks, but you could use any cut of chicken you want) and placed them in a plastic container, then I had a bowl with one beaten egg, then a gallon-sized freezer bag with my breading mixture, and then a 9×13″ baking pan with half a cup of butter melted in it. This way I could quickly move through the preparation and it took me less than five minutes to prepare it.

Here is the recipe I used, which of course I created on the fly, so you can mess around with it as you see fit! Let me know what you think, please!

Ingredients:

10 chicken drumsticks

1 egg, beaten

1/2 cup butter or butter substitute

1/2 cup flour

2 tablespoons McCormick Grill Mates seasoning (I used Garlic and Onion medley)

1/8 cup ground flax seed

Rinse the chicken, beat the egg, and organize your prep area with everything lined up in the order in which you’ll use it. Preheat the oven to 450 and melt the butter in a 9×13″ baking pan. Mix the flour, seasoning, and flax seed in a gallon sized food storage bag.

Coat the drumsticks with the egg and then, two at a time so as not to overcrowd the flour mixture, drop them into the bag and give several good shakes until coated evenly. Take the coated drumsticks and place them into the melted butter.

Bake uncovered for 25 minutes at 450. Remove from the oven and, using tongs, turn them all over and then return them to the oven for another 15-20 minutes or until done.

Enjoy! Come back and let me know how you liked them, and whether you did any of your own adaptations to the recipe.

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