I travel a lot in this job, and finding the best fried chicken in every city I visit is one of my hobbies. It’s the same as pastimes like finding local historical landmarks or collecting shot glasses. It’s just that this one will probably force an angioplasty upon me one day.
During those rare and special times when I’m not chasing around airports, my local community has its own competition for “Best Fried Chicken in Town.” I can’t eat at one of them regularly lest I ruin the special magic that is fried chicken.
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So, on occasion, I make my own. Unfortunately, I don’t have a deep fryer or a pressure cooker. It’s a good thing that I know how to use my oven to make a sound simulation of proper fried chicken. Give this recipe a shot and see if it pasts musters in your neighborhood.
Oven Fried Chicken
Ingredients:
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 8 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup corn flakes
- 1 cup Bisquick
- 2 packages (1oz) dry ranch dressing mix
- Cooking spray
Preparation: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray. Pour buttermilk into shallow bowl. Add chicken. Turn to coat. Meanwhile, in 2 quart plastic bag, crush cereal with rolling pin.
Add Bisquick mix and dressing mix to cereal in bag. Remove the chicken from buttermilk. Add chicken, piece by piece to mixture in the bag, seal, and shale gently to coat.
Place chicken on cookie sheet. Spray with cooking spray. Bake 45-50 minutes or until chicken juice is clear in center of thickest part.
