Honey-Pecan Crusted Chicken
Ingredients
Prep:16 minutes Cook: 45 minutes
1â„4 teaspoon salt
1â„4 teaspoon black pepper
4 (6 oz) skinned chicken breast halves
8 (4-oz) chicken drumsticks, skinned
1â„4 honey
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
3â„4 teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1â„4 cups finely crushed cornflakes
1â„2 cup finely chopped pecans
Cooking spray
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly over chicken. Combine honey, mustard, paprika, and garlic powder in a small bowl. Combine cornflakes and pecans in a shallow dish. Brush both sides of chicken with honey mixture; dredge in cornflake mixture.
3. Place chicken on a large baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Lightly coat chicken with cooking spray; bake at 400 for 40-45 minutes or until done. Yield: 8 servings.
Calories:336 (27% from fat); Fat 10g (sat 1.6g, mono 4.4g, poly 2.5g); Protein 36.5g; Carb 23.5g; Fiber 0.7g; Chol 109mg; Iron 2.6mg; Sodium 482mg; Calc 22mg
This is definitely on the sweet side so if you want it to taste more like fried chicken I guess less honey and more mustard might do the trick? It is very yummy as is though – the coating is nice and crunchy. Some people on the Cooking Light website suggested using Honey Bunches of Oats for the topping which I haven’t tried because it has partially hydrogenated oil in it.