Cap’n Crunch Chicken (recipe)

August 27th, 2009

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What’s the craziest thing you do with breakfast cereal? Leave a comment.

What can you do with Cap’n Crunch Cereal?

Here’s what Betty did…

Ingredients for 12 Cap’n Crunch Fried Chicken Nuggets
1 boneless skinless chicken breast
3/4 cup Cap’n Crunch cereal
1 egg
3 tbsp flour
2 tbsp sparkling water
oil for frying

Fry? Can’t I bake my chicken? I’m watching my cholesterol!

Of course. But I’m not going to tell you they taste exactly the same.

Fine then. Go ahead and fry. I’ll wait.

Relax…

Pour cereal onto a paper towel.

Crush cereal using whatever means available. And I do mean whatever.

The result should be coarse crumbs.

Add 1 tbsp flour to cereal crumbs and stir. While you’re at it, pour the other 2 tablespoons of flour onto a plate.

Pour beaten egg into cereal-flour mixture and stir. Please ignore the hook and leg from my tripod. Ugh. You had to look didn’t you?

Who are you calling picky?

Add sparkling water to make batter. Start with a tablespoon. Stir. Add another. Stir. The consistency should be that of thick, lumpy pancake batter. Add more sparkling water if needed. You may also opt to use beer and make a beer batter. You might decide to add other seasonings such as black pepper, onion or garlic powder, possibly cayenne pepper depending on how picky your sailors are.

Wash, dry and cut chicken into pieces. Begin heating 2-3 inches of (vegetable) oil over medium-high heat. If you have a thermometer, use it! The best temperature is 350-375 (F).

Coat chicken pieces with flour.

Dredge chicken pieces in cereal batter.

Drop into hot oil and fry until golden brown; about 5-7 minutes total. Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with a little sea salt immediately. (Get it? Sea salt! LOL!) Keep hot in a pre-heated 250 (F) oven if needed.

Ahoy, matey!

Time to bake… the process is pretty similar.

Ingredients for 12 Cap’n Crunch Oven-Fried (Baked) Chicken Nuggets
1 boneless skinless chicken breast
1 cup Cap’n Crunch cereal
1 egg
3 tbsp flour

Preheat oven to 400 (F). Prepare chicken pieces and create an assembly line: Plate with 2 tablespoons of flour, beaten egg (with a splash of water) and crushed cereal with 1 tablespoon flour added.

Dredge chicken in flour.

Dip in beaten egg.

Roll in cereal-flour mixture.

Transfer chicken to a non-stick foil lined baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes. I found that I had to place the chicken under a 500 (F) broiler for a moment or two, to get the golden brown color.

Fried or baked, cereal isn’t just for breakfast anymore.

DIPPING SAUCE IDEAS:

For a Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce, try this recipe. Add hot sauce to give it some kick! Try serving with wing sauce, ranch or blue cheese. Another favorite during experimentation (especially on the sandwich) was Spicy Brown Mustard cut with just a bit of mayonnaise.

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Link to the Food Snobs and Cap’n Crunch blog post.
Link to the full Average Betty Archive.

Looking for something else?
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Jalapeno Poppers

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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
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Sugar Cookies with Easy Icing

Link to the full Average Betty Archive.

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