Dip chicken, one piece at a time, in egg mixture (allow excess to drip off), then dredge in flour mixture, pressing to adhere flour mixture to chicken.

Add water to flour mixture rub with fingers until you have a mixture with some shaggy pieces of dough (these provide texture to the chicken coating)

Combine flour, baking powder, paprika, garlic, cayenne, 1 tablespoon pepper, and 1½ teaspoon salt in a medium bowl.

Beat eggs and 1 teaspoon salt together.

Place wire rack in rimmed baking sheet line half with paper towels.Place 12-inch cast iron skillet in oven on middle rack and heat oven to 450° F.Salting meat prior to cooking improves it pretty much 100% of the time, but if you don’t have time to do that, I think your chicken will still be tasty. I followed it pretty exactly, except I salted my chicken pieces a few hours ahead of time. Mine is from Aldi, but you can get a Lodge skillet for less than $30 on Amazon and they have some even cheaper options as well.Īnyhow! Here’s the recipe.

You will need a 12-inch cast iron skillet for this recipe I wouldn’t try it with a lesser skillet. I think a key is that when you make the breading mixture, you add a little water and rub it into the flour with your fingers, creating some shaggy pieces that mimic the breading on real fried chicken. So I tried it, and it was very good! Not quite exactly like real fried chicken, but waaaay closer to the real thing than any other oven “fried” chicken recipe I’ve tried.

My beefs are:īut this recipe looked like it would solve both of those problems in that the chicken cooks entirely in the oven, and you only need a half cup of oil for 3 pounds of chicken pieces. When I was paging through a Cook’s Country magazine, this caught my eye because I really HATE frying things. So this is not going to win any Best Recipe Blog Post of the Year awards, but it will at least allow you to make this chicken! I’m sorry to say that I have exactly zero good pictures of the chicken and no step by step photos either. This popped on my menu post a little while back and a lot of you asked for the recipe.

Dredging oven fried chicken