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Description:
Chicken fillets with a coat of crunch and spice~
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Description:
Chicken fillets with a coat of crunch and spice~
Ingredients:
2 pieces of wholewheat bread
1 tsp chilli flakes
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground pepper
300 g chicken fillets (approximately 7 pieces)
1/2 C flour
1 egg Oil
Directions
1) Dry bread in the oven at 100 deg for 10 - 15 min each on both sides. Cool bread slices.
2) Place bread into a ziplock bag, squeeze out the air before sealing, and crumble with a rolling pin. Season with chilli flakes, salt and pepper.
3) Dry chicken fillet on kitchen towel, coat in flour and dip in egg. Coat the fillet with the breadcrumbs, and arrange onto a well-greased baking tin.
4) Bake at 200 deg for 35 - 40 min, or till browned.
Remarks:
"Oven-frying" is a better way to save calories, and spare yourself from harmful radicals caused by overheated oil. In this instance, chicken fillets are coated sequentially in flour, egg and seasoned bread crumbs, and then baked in an oven with minimal oil (relatively to deep-frying) to achieve a gastronomical dining experience. As you sink your teeth into each fillet, the tender white meat of chicken that lies below the crunchy coat of seasoned bread crumbs bursts with flavours, leaving you spellbound to its splendor.. Oh alright, I'm just being too dramatic.
Now back to Earth, the whole wheat bread crumbs added a robust taste to the chicken and yes, the fillets were really crunchy as I've described earlier on. However, I felt that the chicken fillet should have been marinated in some sauce before being coated and baked, as the meat was pretty bland. It just felt like all the flavours were concentrated on the exterior coat, and the interior meat was just.. chicken-y.
I find it interesting to see that various ways of food presentation can invoke different feelings. I would always try to make my food as appetizing as possible, but today, it seemed that I have taken a picture which didn't make me feel too anxious to have my chicken. Definitely not for the faint-hearted:
Does the next picture do kindness to your eyes more?
2) Place bread into a ziplock bag, squeeze out the air before sealing, and crumble with a rolling pin. Season with chilli flakes, salt and pepper.
3) Dry chicken fillet on kitchen towel, coat in flour and dip in egg. Coat the fillet with the breadcrumbs, and arrange onto a well-greased baking tin.
4) Bake at 200 deg for 35 - 40 min, or till browned.
Remarks:
"Oven-frying" is a better way to save calories, and spare yourself from harmful radicals caused by overheated oil. In this instance, chicken fillets are coated sequentially in flour, egg and seasoned bread crumbs, and then baked in an oven with minimal oil (relatively to deep-frying) to achieve a gastronomical dining experience. As you sink your teeth into each fillet, the tender white meat of chicken that lies below the crunchy coat of seasoned bread crumbs bursts with flavours, leaving you spellbound to its splendor.. Oh alright, I'm just being too dramatic.
Now back to Earth, the whole wheat bread crumbs added a robust taste to the chicken and yes, the fillets were really crunchy as I've described earlier on. However, I felt that the chicken fillet should have been marinated in some sauce before being coated and baked, as the meat was pretty bland. It just felt like all the flavours were concentrated on the exterior coat, and the interior meat was just.. chicken-y.
I find it interesting to see that various ways of food presentation can invoke different feelings. I would always try to make my food as appetizing as possible, but today, it seemed that I have taken a picture which didn't make me feel too anxious to have my chicken. Definitely not for the faint-hearted:
Does the next picture do kindness to your eyes more?
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