Healthier ‘KFC’ Style Chicken

I just love ‘KFC’ or similarly branded fried chicken, however because of all of the lovely grease it is fried in it’s not really best choice to have. Well every day at least anyway. I was really craving some of the fabulous chicken one afternoon and went to my kitchen cupboard to see what I had to make something similar and this is what I came up with.

Ingredients:

For the chicken

2 large chicken breasts
Tub of dried bread crumbs (they tend to be called golden crumbs and I’d used them before in making up burger mixes). You can also use Panko bread crumbs that you find in the Chinese cooking aisle
Garlic powder
Flour
Salt and pepper
Chilli powder pinch
2 eggs beaten
‘Frylite’ cooking spray (1 calorie spray stuff) or a little olive oil
‘Tabasco’ sauce
Optional: Ranch dressing and sweetcorn

Sauce

Bottle of ‘Franks’ hot wing sauce
Half a jar of honey
Pinch of garlic powder
Salt and pepper

Method:

Cut your chicken into pieces about the size of your thumb
Set the oven to 190 degrees c
Make up three bowls. One with plain flour; the second with the beaten egg and the third empty some of the breadcrumb mix into
Into the breadcrumb mix add a pinch of garlic powder; chilli powder and salt and pepper
Into the eggs add a dash of ‘Tabasco’ sauce
Grease a baking sheet with a little olive oil or spray with ‘Frylite’
Using a fork or your fingers dip the chicken pieces in the flour first
Then dip into the egg mix
Then dip into the breadcrumb mix coating the chicken and place on the tray
Either toss the chicken around in the oil or give it another spray
Bake for 10 minutes initially
Whilst baking make up the sauce
Mix all the ingredients together and after 10 minutes cooking take the chicken out of the oven and pour over the sauce
Put back in the oven for another 10-15 minutes until cooked through
Serve with ranch dressing and sweetcorn as optional