Crunchy Chicken Recipe Easy
For a deliciously flavorful and delightfully crunchy take on boneless skinless chicken breasts, check out this fun way to use boxed stuffing mix!
I pulled this out of Grandmama’s crate of recipes, which are currently residing at my house while I go through them and pull out recipes for my next book. My son is becoming a non enthusiastic meat eater as of late. He tends to gravitate more to veggies (cooked carrots are his favorite) and so when he ate two servings of this chicken, I knew I had a winner. Ricky is a diehard fan of Granny’s Oven Fried Chicken and declared this to be right up there with it. With even less work on my part that is another point in Crunchy Chicken’s favor. All in all, this is a wonderfully crunchy dish with a POP of flavor thanks to the non traditional use of stuffing mix. It comes together in a flash and cooks up while you do other things. All of that means this is a great dish that the whole family (including the cook!) will love!
And now for the recipe!
Recipe Ingredients:
Cream of chicken soup*
Milk
Boxed stuffing mix (flavor of choice)
Boneless skinless chicken breasts
*If you prefer, you can use my recipe for homemade cream of chicken soup in Come Home To Supper or the homemade recipe is here, in place of the canned soup and milk.
Start by placing the stuffing mix in a large zipper seal bag and beating the living mess out of it.
I highly recommend hammering out chicken or stuffing mix or cracker crumbs as often as possible as it helps work out the frustration with the craziness in the world around us – and keeps us sweet :).
Stir together the milk and cream soup until well blended.
Make a breading station by placing stuffing crumbs in one bowl and soup mixture in another.
Dip each chicken breast on both sides into the soup…
Then into the crushed stuffing mix, both sides.
Place these on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes.
Thicker chicken breasts will need closer to thirty minutes, thinner will be closer to twenty. To check for doneness, just cut in the center of one and pull it apart a bit to make sure there isn’t any pinkness.
Serve this hot and crispy chicken as soon as it’s done, with a side of your choice. Mine is featured with Creamy Cucumbers, recipe coming soon!
Ingredients
- 4 large or 6 small boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 box Stovetop Stuffing Mix flavor of your choice (I use Chicken)
- 10 ounce can cream of chicken soup*
- 1/2 cup milk
Instructions
- Place stuffing mix in large zipper seal bag and crush with a rolling pin or meat tenderizer (or your hands).
- In bowl or measuring cup, stir together soup and milk until well blended. Pour stuffing mix crumbs in one bowl and soup mixture into another.
- Dip each chicken breast, on both sides, first into soup mixture and then into crumbs. Place on greased baking sheet.
- Bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes, or until chicken is lightly browned and no longer pink in the center.
Notes
Nutrition
You may also enjoy these chicken recipes:
Ritz Cracker Chicken Recipe: Only Three Ingredients
Crock Pot Chicken And Cornbread Dressing
As always, I’d just love to hear from you in the comments. You can talk about the weather where you are, this chicken recipe, the cucumber salad on the plate beside it, my self declared Year Of The Book at the bottom, or, just drop a “hidy!” because it is always a joy getting to hear back from you.
Mmm, will definitely be trying this, as I love chicken breasts and Stove Top Stuffing!
I have had a Kindle ereader since they first became available, and I got the Paperwhite when it came out.
Books have been my great love since childhood, and while I do miss paper books, my eyesight has deteriorated to the point I can’t read the print. So happy that I can adjust the text on my Kindle. 🙂
That is a handy feature! The portability of an ereader can’t be beat and if you have one you can read in the dark, that is another plus. I guess Im just preparing for my life in a small cabin in the middle of the woods with kerosene lanterns and grandfather clocks 🙂 A life like that needs an amazing set of books!
Another great thing about the Kindle (I have the larger Kindle Fire) is that you don’t
have to find a place to file the books and you don’t have to dust them.
I’ve thought about purchasing a kindle paperwhite for convenience, but I just really love the idea of an actual book too! Hmm…decisions decisions!
Chicken looks delicious.
I love my Kobo e reader, mainly because of the lightness of the “book” and the fact that I can carry so many books with me and its only as heavy as the ereader. I sit my twin grand daughters every day, I drive 20 k to get there, and am there from 7am to around 5pm they still have naps so reading is a good way to be quiet, and I can read at odd times without loosing my place.
I was going to make your “Granny’s Oven Fried Chicken” this weekend – but I may have to try this recipe instead!! Sounds really good and really easy!
I’ve made this with cream of mushroom soup, which tastes great too! yummy simple recipe.
Great to know! thank you!
I love the feel of a book in my hands,too. Even though I do more reading on my iPad because it’s so easy to download the books and carry it with you. I just read “To Kill A Mockingbird” because my grandson’s English class is reading it. He has really liked this book and wanted to discuss it with me. I had to read it to keep up with him,but I enjoyed it. I read his copy from the school library. Now,we are eagerly awaiting Harper Lee’s sequel to come out!
You know, I have never read To Kill A Mockingbird but it is on my list. I like having great books to look forward to. I have mixed feelings about her new book, with so many people saying she never wanted it to be published, but I’d love to hear what you think about it after reading!
I haven’t pre-ordered it yet, but I will read it. I think that maybe it was found just as Harper Collins and her lawyer described and Nelle (Harper Lee) decided to go ahead and print it now rather than posthumously, or that she always knew where it was and changed her mind about publishing it in her lifetime-after all of the comments, bet she’s wishing that one back!
Her late sister, Alice, was still sharp as a tack at over 100. I think a lot of the negative comments are simply sour grapes. They are only discussing senility because she’s 88; at 48, no one would even bring it up, and she could very well be sharp as a tack, and only be in an assisted living facility because of physical problems, not mental ones, but then that’s just my point of view. Maybe it won’t be as good as Mockingbird, maybe it will be, or be even better. We should all just wait until July and see, and enjoy the unexpected gift we’ve all been given.
I like “real” books, too, BUT, it’s hard, even after purging 50 years of books, to find room for more, and the big heavy ones are hard for arthritic hands to hold. I really like being able to adjust the font size so I can read comfortably, and I love the backlight on the Paperwhite. Like you, I can turn the room light off, get in bed, read, and not have to get back up to turn the light off.
I can also be read to with my old 3G Kindle Keyboard while I am making a rug or cross stitching. The Text to Speech is sometimes really laughable, but I can get through a lot more books that way, and it doesn’t cost extra. I like that. So, after being really resistant to getting a Kindle, you’ll now pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
I also love both my e-reader and hardbound books! I was thrilled to get my mother’s set of the Louisa May Alcott series… from “Little Women” to “Rose in Bloom.” While growing up, I spent many hours reading and re-reading each one. Now I can start again!
Will be sure to try this recipe. My son gave me “Come Home to Dinner” for Mother’s Day and he has liked every recipe we’ve tried so far.
Oh my! Kim, you may or may not want to look at this copy of Little Women in the Puffin In Bloom line from Penguin. It is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen. I’m going to post a photo on my instagram later. I’m so glad you enjoy my book and thank you for the honor of being in your home!
I’ll look for your Instagram photo, thanks! So many fun book items on Pinterest too. Here’s my board: https://www.pinterest.com/kkpolzin/bookish/. It amuses me every time my husband promises not to “read the ink off the page” when he borrows something to read… found a pin that captures it: “This book has been used, but its words are still good!”
Thank you Kim, I will have to check out your board!!
One day I was pounding chicken breasts and my daughter came into the kitchen and asked, “Do you want to talk about it?” LOL
LOL!!! LOVE IT!