Oven-Fried Chicken

Wow, for once, Hadi actually used a recipe to cook something for dinner! *shock and surprise* Ahem. Apparently, this is an easy way of cooking "fried" chicken (and healthier too! Well, slightly) so I supposed that attracted him to it.

So here's the recipe!

What you need:
4 large chicken portions
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons mixed herbs
1 cup breadcrumbs
3/4 Parmesan Cheese
oil, for greasing
lemon wedges, to serve

What you do:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Rinse the chicken portions and pat dry with a towel.
2. Combine the flour, salt and pepper on a large plate and stir with a fork to mix. Coat the chicken portions on all sides with the seasoned flour and shake off the excess flour.
3. Sprinkle a little water on to the chicken portions and coat again lightly with the seasoned flour.
4. Beat the egg with 2 tablespoons water in a shallow dish and stir in the herbs. Combine the breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese on a plate.
5. Dip the chicken portions into the egg mixture, turning to coat them evenly, then roll in the breadcrums, patting them on with your fingers to help them stick.
6. Place the chicken portions in a greased shallow roasting tin or an ovenproof dish large enough to hold them in one layer. Bake for 20-30 minutes until thoroughly cooked and golden brown. Serve at once, with lemon wedges for squeezing.

Ok, first of all, we couldn't to buy lemons, so we skipped out on that part. Also, the Parmesan cheese here is not suitable for vegetarians :( So we had to skip out on that as well.

The end result, naturally because of the breadcrumbs, looked very nice. It was nice and golden, with some green specks coming from the herbs. Very pretty, hehe. Looks quite similar to Hadi's Breaded Honey Chicken from last time, although the taste was completely different.

This time, it was salty. Mainly because Hadi put in half a TABLEspoon of salt instead of a teaspoon -_-; I didn't notice it all that much (heh) but Justin found it so salty, that he said he lost his appetite (and that is ONE big event. almost never happens...I mean, he even had Hadi's bad chicken -_-) So yeah, to all the future cooks out there, tsp is teaspoon while tbsp is tablespoon. Just so you know.

It wasn't too bad for me though. Although the insides of the chicken could have really used some flavour, since all of the flavour was on the outside. Not sure how to manage that though... I think using smaller chicken pieces (like chicken wings... *drool*) would make this dish even nicer :D