Friday, September 18, 2009

Oven Fried Chicken

I saw Paula Dean make this one day on her show. It looked so good and so easy so I thought I would try it. It was so good, everyone loved it. One thing she did on her show that is not in the instructions is she took the chicken and put it between 2 pieces of wax paper and hit it with a meat tenderizer until it was pretty thin.

Ingredients

2 cups Panko bread crumbs (will be with the bread crumbs. Walmart didn't have them I had to go to another grocery store.)
1 cup grated Parmesan
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons freshly minced thyme leaves
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons water
2 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, pounded to 1/4 -inch thickness

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place a cooling rack over pan and spray rack with nonstick cooking spray.
In a shallow dish, combine bread crumbs, cheese, 2 tablespoons olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper, to taste. In a separate shallow dish, combine mustard, water, salt and pepper, to taste, and remaining olive oil. Coat each chicken breast with mustard mixture; dredge each in bread crumb mixture. Place on prepared rack in pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until chicken is golden brown. Serve immediately.

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