Oven Fried Chicken

Name: Oven Fried Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons cayenne pepper; 907 grams bone-in skinless chicken legs and thighs; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed; 1 teaspoons granulated sugar; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 lemon; 118 milliliters low-fat milk; 2 Tbsps grated Parmesan cheese, optional; 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary, plus 2 whole sprigs; 85 grams slices whole wheat bread; 59 milliliters yellow cornmeal

Oven Fried Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe makes 4 servings with 407 calories, 27g of protein, and 23g of fat each. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe is typical of Southern cuisine. A mixture of cornmeal, rosemary, milk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Instructions

Finely grate 1 teaspoon of zest from the lemon; set aside. Squeeze the juice of the lemon into a medium bowl.

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Juice

Lemon

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Bowl

Whisk in the milk, sugar, and cayenne until the sugar and cayenne are dissolved.

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Ground Cayenne Pepper

Sugar

Milk

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Whisk

Add the sprigs of rosemary and garlic. Pierce each chicken piece several times with a fork, add to the milk mixture, turning to coat well. Cover, and marinate in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

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Rosemary

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Milk

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

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Oven

Lay the bread on a baking sheet in a single layer.

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Bread

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Baking Sheet

Bake, turning a few times, until the bread is crisp and dry, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Cool completely. Break into large pieces and pulse in the bowl of a food processor until it forms coarse crumbs.

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Bread

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Food Processor

Oven

Bowl

Increase the oven temperature to 375 degrees F. In a shallow dish combine the bread crumbs with the corn meal, Parmesan (if using), chopped rosemary, reserved 1 teaspoon zest, and season with salt and pepper. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and top with a wire rack. Coat the rack well with nonstick cooking spray.

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Salt And Pepper

Cooking Spray

Breadcrumbs

Cornmeal

Parmesan

Rosemary

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

Working with one piece at a time, remove the chicken from the marinade, allowing the excess to drip off. Press into the bread crumb mixture until the chicken is well coated and place on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining chicken and crumbs. Mist the chicken with nonstick cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Marinade

Whole Chicken

Bread

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Baking Sheet

Bake until the chicken is crisp and a thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 160 degrees F, about 50 to 55 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Kitchen Thermometer

Oven

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Calories 181; Total Fat 3.5g (Sat Fat 1g, Mono Fat 1g, Poly Fat 0.5g) ; Protein 9g; Carb 29g; Fiber 4g; Cholesterol 1mg; Sodium 506mg

Calories 328; Total Fat 10g (Sat Fat 3g, Mono Fat 3g, Poly Fat 2g) ; Protein 48g;

Carb 10 g; Fiber 1g; Cholesterol 186mg; Sodium 330mg

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Ingredients

Servings:

0teaspoons

cayenne pepper 907grams

bone-in skinless chicken legs and thighs 4cloves

garlic, peeled and smashed 1teaspoons

granulated sugar 4servings

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1

lemon 118milliliters

low-fat milk 2Tbsps

grated Parmesan cheese, optional 2teaspoons

chopped fresh rosemary, plus 2 whole sprigs 85grams

slices whole wheat bread 59milliliters

yellow cornmeal

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern works really well with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. One wine you could try is Von Winning Winnings Riesling. It has 4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 20 dollars.

Von Winning Winnings Riesling

If you loved the 2014 — and if you didn't, we need to send out a search party for your heart — you’ll find this one happy, happy, happy. Stronger than '14, it's also both drier and richer. And that’s as it should be; the pittance of sweetness it contains will rise and fall with the structure of each year's wine, because that's what sensible vintners do. The others just set up a formula and the wine"“has—XY— grams of sugar and zat's zat." Not Winnings Riesling. This will always be teasingly dry and teasingly sweet so you’ll keep changing your mind ("Wait, it's a dry wine, no, it's a sweet wine, no wait, it's a dry wine again….") while the bottle empties faster than you could have imagined.