When strapped for time, and money, you can still prepare healthy dishes for your family. We have a healthy baked chicken strips recipe that’s easy to pre and cook! You’ll love how healthy and easy on the wallet it is, too!
Healthy baked chicken strips dinner recipe: easy and inexpensive
These home-style chicken strips are similar to the ones you get at KFC, however, they’re healthier and definitely cheaper.
Serves 4
Time taken: Preparation time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 20 minutes
Marinating time for chicken: Minimum 4 hours (preferably overnight)
Ingredients
For marination
1 lb. organic boneless chicken breasts cut into thin strips after pounding lightly with a mallet or rolling pin
1 cup buttermilk for marinating
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. fresh coarsely ground pepper
For the coating
2 cups Bread crumbs (I prepare mine fresh by using 4-6 slices of whole wheat bread. Use stale bread too and just use a blender to make these)
½ tsp. cayenne
Salt to taste
½ tsp. any fresh herb chopped fine (oregano, parsley, thyme, etc.)
2 eggs
A little oil
Method
Marinate the chicken pounded and cut in thin strips in buttermilk, salt and pepper overnight in the fridge. Buttermilk makes the chicken stay juicy and tender. Break the eggs and mildly beat them in a shallow dish. Make the bread crumbs and season them with the ingredients mentioned above in another shallow dish.
Take out each strip and lightly tap off the extra buttermilk.
Dunk in the egg mixture followed by the bread crumbs and keep on an oiled baking tray.
Use one hand for the dipping and keep one hand clean, or you will spend all your time washing your hands. Continue this for all the strips till the baking tray is covered.
Bake them in a pre-heated oven at 400 degrees F for 10 minutes till the crust is golden brown.
Turn once and cook further for 10 minutes so that each side is browned evenly and the chicken is well cooked. Serve them hot with ketchup or any other dip of your choice and a side of salad.
Healthier than Frying
These baked chicken strips are juicy, yummy and far healthier than fried chicken you may normally eat at a fast food restaurant. They’re prepared fresh at a fraction of the cost of what you’d spend eating out, and they are really tasty. Try it today!
About the Writer: Rachna Parmar, an ardent blogger, enthusiastic cook and mom of two, is an editor at Livesnet.com, a site offering reviews of baby products and good parenting tips. Please visit Livesnet and read her wonderful articles on best cuisinart food processor and breville bje510xl juicer.
