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:

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