50 Different Recipes: #3 Cheddar Baked Chicken

Looking at making this for dinner on Sunday, November 7th, 2010 with my honey glazed carrots and a Knorr Pasta Side of either the chicken or alfredo style. Shouldn't be hard to win Mr. Picky over on this one.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• 1/2 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
• 1 cup crispy rice cereal
• 3 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut in half
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a medium baking dish with 1/4 cup melted butter.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. In a separate bowl, beat together the egg and milk. In a third bowl, mix the cheese, bread crumbs, cereal. Dredge chicken pieces in the flour mixture, dip in the egg mixture, then press in the breadcrumb mixture to coat. Arrange in the prepared baking dish. Drizzle 2 tablespoons butter evenly over chicken.
3. Bake 35 minutes in the preheated oven, or until coating is golden brown and chicken juices run clear.

Update

This was pretty easy to make, and I really did love the cereal in the breading. What I wasn't quite a fan of was how soggy some of the breading got. I don't know if it was the butter in the bottom of the pan, the drizzle of butter over the top or what it was that made it a bit gooey. I may have to experiment with this one, no butter, only butter on the top, turning the chicken over before the cooking is all done.

Kevin ate the chicken, like I thought, not hard to win him over on this one, basically cheesy chicken fingers. Tonight's meal may be a bit harder to win him over, having Hash Brown Ham Quiche -- it's one of those things where he'd eat all the ingredients separately, but will he eat it when it's all mixed together???

I forgot to get a picture, so I've included one from the allrecipes.com web site where I got the recipe in the first place :-)