[CH] Skinny Fried Chicken
Doug Irvine (dirvin@bc.sympatico.ca)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:03:11 -0700
Well, all, tonight, I had taken a very large, boneless, skinless,
chicken breast from the freezer, and after doing Asian for three nights
in a row(NOT a 1001) I decided we needed a change. Had some new red
potatoes, and I figured we should have fried chicken....FAT City! So, I
looked around for a chile pepper solution, could not find one that
appealed, and came up with this. We used to do a thing like this when
our kids were growing up, and our first grandchild called it Chicken
fried Chicken....dunt esk! Anyway, here is NO FAT FRIED CHICKEN a la
Doug!
4 boneless, skinless, chicken breasts(I used one)
1/2 cup of buttermilk, which will fly for anyone lactose intolerant,
like me!
1/2 cup dry white bread crumbs
4 tbls parmesan cheese...I used a mixture of my own, half Romano
1/2 tsp fresh rosemary, or dried if not have
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 heaping tsp Calvin's chile powder
1/2 tsp celery salt
Wash and dry the chicken breasts, cut in half, crosswise, and soak in
the buttermilk. Mix all of the dry ingredients together. amd place in a
shallow dish. If you wish to have this really browned, then also add a
little paprika to the dry ingredients....note that there is no salt,
other than the celery salt. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray the
foil with Pam or whatever kind you use, spray. Heat oven to 400F .
Remove chicken from buttermilk, roll in the crumb mix, and place on the
baking sheet. Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for about 40
minutes. As I have a convection oven, this takes a lot less time, like
as in 25 minutes, instead of 40, at the same temperature...served this
with the new red potatoes, and creamed onion, carrot, celery and
mushrooms in a low fat cream sauce made with skim milk and CALVIN'S of
course...you could also use Jim Sr's red savina powder, but not the
smoked in the cream sauce. Or I have chopped up a couple of habs, finely
and done that with the other veggies! Use yer imagination...Cheers, and
enjoy, Doug in BC