Dijon, Saltine and Wheat Germ Crusted Chicken Fingers with Ranch Dipping Sauce

Name: Dijon, Saltine and Wheat Germ Crusted Chicken Fingers with Ranch Dipping Sauce
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters sliced almonds, toasted, optional; 2 teaspoons celery salt; 2 Tbsps finely chopped chives; 118 milliliters Dijon mustard; 1 Tbsp garlic powder; 2 shakes hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco); 4 servings Kosher salt; 118 milliliters low fat plain yogurt; 355 milliliters low fat yogurt; 2 Tbsps chopped Italian parsley leaves; 1 sleeve (about 25) saltine crackers, crumbled; 2 larges boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 237 milliliters toasted wheat germ

Dijon, Saltine and Wheat Germ Crusted Chicken Fingers with Ranch Dipping Sauce takes approximately 35 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 33% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This main course has 342 calories, 29g of protein, and 13g of fat per serving. If you have chicken breasts, dijon mustard, chives, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Cut the chicken breasts on the diagonal into wide flat strips and season with salt, to taste. In a large bowl, combine the Dijon and the yogurt, toss in the chicken and stir to coat evenly.

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Salt

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Pulse, pulse, pulse the crackers in a food processor until they look like fine crumbs.

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Add the wheat germ and toasted almonds and pulse until it is a homogeneous mixture. Put this mixture into a wide flat dish.

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Roll the marinated chicken in this mixture, 1 piece at a time, pressing the cracker/wheat germ mixture to evenly crust each piece.

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Lay the prepared chicken onto a sheet tray fitted with a rack. Baking the chicken on a rack will allow the air to circulate around the chicken to cook it evenly and make it crispy.

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Bake the chicken in the preheated oven until the chicken is cooked through but not dry, about 12 to 15 minutes.

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Remove the chicken from the oven to a serving platter and serve with the Dipping Sauce.

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