Almondcrustedchickenfingers Recipes

ALMOND CRUSTED CHICKEN FINGERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400f degrees,.
• Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• In a shallow bowl, whisk milk and egg together.
• Place half the flour in another bowl, in a separate bowl stir almonds with the remaining flour.
• To each bowl, stir in 1/4 teaspoon salt.
• Slice chicken into finger size strips.
• Sprinkle both sides of chicken with salt and pepper.
• Lightly coat chicken strips with flour, followed by milk mixture, then coat with almond mixture.
• Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat.
• Add chicken, cook in two batches, adding more oil if necessary, until golden, about 1 to 2 minutes on each side.
• Chicken will not be cooked through.
• Transfer to baking sheet.
• Bake in centre of preheated oven until cooked through, about 6 to 8 minutes.

COCONUT-ALMOND CRUSTED CHICKEN FINGERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475°F Spray a baking sheet with olive oil.
• Place almond flour, coconut, crackers, paprika, garlic powder, dry mustard, salt and pepper in a food processor; process until the crackers are finely chopped and the paprika is mixed throughout, about 1 minute. Transfer the mixture to a shallow dish.
• Melt butter in a second shallow dish. Add chicken tenders and turn to coat. Transfer each tender to the crumb mixture; turn to coat evenly. (Discard any remaining butter and almond mixture.) Place the tenders on the prepared tray.
• Bake the chicken tenders until golden brown, crispy and no longer pink in the center, about 30 minutes, carefully turning once.