Crispy Baked Chicken
Delicious Chicken Without the Mess of Frying
 Crispy Baked Chicken is a great recipe for those of you who don't want to mess with frying chicken in oil or who are looking for a healthy alternative to fried foods.
Most of us enjoy eating chicken that has a crispy fried skin on it. Unfortunately, the skin is where most of the fat is... but there is a solution. By using Melba Toast that has been crushed down to a sand or small pebble size as a coating, you end up with a crispy–crunchy crust on your chicken.
The recipe calls for using a whole chicken cut into pieces with the skin removed. You're not limited to using a whole chicken, you can use just your favorite part. If my husband had his way, we would only use thighs with this recipe.
We have also successfully used this recipe with boneless skinless chicken breasts. If there is any left over, we usually make crispy chicken sandwiches for lunch the next day. My sandwich will have lettuce tomato and some ranch dressing on it. Oh.. and some provolone cheese. Mmmmm....o.k. now i'm hungry.
Crispy Baked Chicken Recipe
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 40 min
Ingredients:
- 1 box Melba toast
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1 Tbls Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1 whole chicken cut into pieces with the skin removed
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Put oven rack to upper-middle position.
- Put Melba toast into a large ZipLoc bag and crush into small crumbs with a heavy kitchen utensil such as a rolling pin or crush it using your blender or food processor.
- Pour vegetable oil over Melba toast crumbs in bag and shake well.
- Line cookie sheet with foil and put a flat wire rack on it to hold the chicken.
- Pour oil coated Melba crumbs into shallow dish.
- Mix eggs, oregano, garlic powder, thyme, mustard, salt, pepper in another shallow dish or small bowl.
- Dip each piece of chicken in egg mixture and cover both sides.
- Put chicken in bowl with Melba crumbs, spoon crumbs over chicken. Press to coat both sides of chicken pieces.
- Tap off excess crumbs and place on the rack that is sitting in sheet pan.
- Bake until chicken is brown, about 40 minutes and juices run clear
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