Recipe of the Week – Southern Baked Chicken Legs
May 11, 2009 at 8:09 am 4 comments
(From The Cooking For the Kids Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Southern Baked Chicken Leg
They have done a number on us, well maybe me; you my still be a holdout. On the rare occasion when I break out the frying pan and oil a huge wave of guilt sweeps over me. We have been trained that frying is bad and sautéing is good. Anyway I don’t like how frying smells up my house so it was time to come up with a chicken recipe that was better for us and actually smelled good cooking.
I thought after the dessert trays last week I might come back down to earth and provide a recipe that your kids would love and even more importantly is easy to cook. Anyone who cooks has tried to come up with an alternative to the bucket of chicken. Not that there is anything wrong with an occasional stop in the fast food chicken huts, except that you can probably run a diesel truck off the oil you can wring from the napkins when you are done. We try and try to get just the right flavor and crunchiness and still have that great taste; all while baking instead for frying.
Here is my recipe for Southern Baked Chicken; this recipe works well for a nice dinner or served cold at a picnic. Picnic? You know when you take a plastic container of the chicken to the soccer game and have the rest of the kids, those not playing, eat on the side of the field.
Southern Baked Chicken Legs
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Cooking for the Kids |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 6 | medium | chicken legs |
| 0.5 | cup | flour |
| 1 | tsp | garlic powder |
| 1 | tsp | paprika, sweet |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
| 2 | medium | egg |
| 0.125 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.125 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
| 0.75 | cup | breadcrumbs |
| 0.125 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.125 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
Put flour, garlic powder, paprika, salt and pepper into a shallow bowl and mix. Beat eggs and add salt and pepper into another shallow bowl. In a third bowl mix breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. Dip the chicken legs into the flour mixture, making sure to cover the whole leg with flour. Shake off any loose flour. Dip the leg into the eggs and make sure to cover. Dip the legs in the breadcrumbs, place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until the juices run clear when poked with a knife.
Entry filed under: Dinners. Tags: baked chicken legs, easy chicken, kid food, picnic food, southern baked chicken legs, southern chicken.
1.
apurva | May 11, 2009 at 8:15 am
Thank you for such wonderful
information………If you are a Food Lover just
the way I am……Please check out the blog
mentioned below, some really yummy
recipes are out there !!!!…..Check it out m
sure you’ll love it.
http://staysharpwithrecepies.blogspot.com
2.
Recipe man | May 11, 2009 at 9:47 am
this look so good. i love the crispy chicken
thanks!
3.
Find Cheaper Groceries | October 16, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Great site, how do I subscribe?
4.
MeatHub Inc. | December 30, 2010 at 7:05 pm
I love southern food… this sounds delicious!