Saturday, July 24, 2010

Spicy Oven-Fried Chicken

yum.
seriously. one of our new favorite meals.
i'm not one to sit over a hot pan of oil to fry my family up some good old fried chicken. i am, however, looking for good recipes using buttermilk, so when i came across this recipe i snagged it!
wow. really quite simple, and doesn't feel like it takes too long since you can soak the chicken the day before, letting all the flavors infuse the chicken.
we used our home canned hot pepper sauce, but you could use frank's hot, tabasco or any other hot sauce you like. and really, it doesn't end up being super hot - the kids could totally eat it. the chicken picks up only some of the heat, but gives amazing flavor.
i also liked that this uses meat on the bone with the skin on so that i could buy a whole cut up chicken which is quite a savings. since i have a little girl who loves to eat meat off the bone (actually requests chicken bones for dinner) this works great for us!
i baked this in my Pampered Chef bar pan, which i LOVE and use almost every single day! i was seriously licking the pan clean of all the drippings.
we enjoyed this with a green salad.
it was excellent the day after as a cold lunch!

here's the chicken, sitting in its marnade


simple basic spices


mixed together to make this lovely breading


the breaded chicken ready for oven-frying


the beautiful bar pan, right out of the oven. doesn't that chicken look amazing!


this stoneware is, in fact, why i started selling Pampered Chef products, so if you still don't have any stoneware, you should really consider! i bake everything from cookies to bacon, marinaded veggies to granola, pizza to rhubarb bars in this perfect pan! i use less oil, there aren't any toxins in this stone, and cleanup is a breeze!
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