It's Day3 of new recipe Day from the cookbook Healthy Country Cooking. Today, I chose the recipe for Surprise Oven chicken because of the pretzel coating and hot sauce marinade.
The original recipe calls for regular salty pretzel, but the only pretzel I had in my pantry was the Gluten Free sesame pretzels (glutenfreemall.com) so that I decided to just make it all gluten free version anyway. If you have not problems with gluten, then by all means use regular pretzels and whole wheat flour.
Marinate Overnight: (place in ziploc bag and refrigerate)
1lb chicken thighs
2c milk
1tsp hot sauce
2tsp lemon juice
garlic, crushed
To cook: Mix the coating
2c Crushed or finely processed gluten free (or regular salty) pretzels
1 tsp sea salt
1tsp garlic powder
pinch of oregano
Drain the marinade, and roll each chicken in the pretzel coating. Lay on wax paper for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400F. Pour 1/4 c olive oil in baking dish and place it in the oven for 15 minutes.
Remove from oven, place chicken skin side down on baking dish for 3 minutes. Turn the chicken and place baking dish back in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes or until well done.
**My review of the recipe: Marinating the chicken in milk overnight somewhat made the chicken tender. However, if you want to kick it up a notch feel free to add more hotsauce and garlic. I had to bake longer until the skin turned nice golden brown. The bottom part was soggy though.
Passed: the taste was good enough for my toddler.
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