We are big fans of Southern food. Bigger fans of fried chicken. It sounds strange but Cap’n Crunch cereal makes this chicken sweet and tasty. You can fry it in oil, or be good to your heart and oven fry. It’s just as yummy.
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups Cap’n Crunch cereal
1 cup Cornflakes (plain!)
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 pounds chicken pieces (or breasts cut into tenders)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Crush, grind, bash, any way you can, get the Cap’n Crunch and the Corn Flakes smashed to smithereens. The finer the better. I put the cereals in a freezer bag and have at it with a rolling pin. That works for me.
Stir together the onion powder, garlic powder and black pepper. Combine with the flour and set aside.
In a separate plate beat the egg with the milk.
Wash and dry your chicken. I cannot stress this enough. I am a bacteria-phobe and believe that washing the raw chicken will get you to heaven.
This is how your assembly line should look:
chicken, seasoned flour, egg+milk and cereal.
Dredge the chicken in flour, shaking off the excess. If there is too much flour, your coating won’t stick. Then dip the chicken in the milk mixture, then finally the cereal.
Place the chicken on a non-stick foil lined cookie sheet. Bake for 1 hour. Now, you are more than welcome to do it the traditional way and fry the hell out it. I prefer the semi-healthy way and ‘oven frying’ it. It’s still just as tasty.
This is a really easy and amazingly tasty recipe.
And as my son said, “Mommy! This is GOOD CHICKEN!”
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Hi Jenn, I want to make this but am from Australia. What exactly does Captain Crunch look like as we don’t have it here so I would like to try to get something close to it. Thanks, Vicki
Hi Vicki. Well, it’s just a sweetened corn cereal. I took a look but I don’t know what the equivalent would be over there. I’d send you a box if it didn’t cost me a million dollars to ship!
I swear some people do not appreciate my germophobias. My husband, his family have all looked at me like I am crazy for cleaning my meat before cooking it. Pfft. Pfft.
Your chicken sounds spectacular! I cannot wait to make it for my husband.
I want to make this for dinner tomorrow night but have a timing issue. Could I bread it tonight? Could I cook it tonight … does it reheat well? Thoughts?
I made this tonight for my family, and they absolutely LOVED it! This is definitely a recipe I’ll be adding to my own personal cookbook.
And Jesser: If you cook / bread it tonight, it’ll be soggy, which isn’t good. It takes about 2 minutes to coat all the pieces, then you just pop it in the oven. And trust me… it’s well worth it.
I had this type of chicken at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas… it really is quite yummy with the ceral. I will have to try your recipe. Thanks for sharing!
I have Captn Crunch with crunch berries, will I have to pick out the berries, or could I include them?
@Lisa
sure you could but then you’ll be left with a whole lotta ‘berries.’
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