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.
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Will have to give the chicken breadts a try. They look good.
I am trying this soon for my guys. They will love it! I have never thought to use cream of chicken soup to coat chicken.
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Happy Belated Birthday Day!! Hope you had a wonderful day!
Love chicken…fried in grease on stove top or in the oven. I’m going to have to try this one.
Thanks Christy!
Can’t wait to try this recipe. Chicken breasts and ground meat (turkey or burger) are the meats I would say I cook the most and I know I can always find great recipes on your site– thank you. As for books, I could talk about books all day. I love, love, love reading and writing as well. I am nearly done with the fifth book in the three pines series by Louise Penny which I highly recommend. The series is great and the audio specifically is wonderful. Audio books are my go to format for reading. I read in braille too and have recently read a few books via downloadable audio and in the past in e-text format but I think because there is no inflection )or very little anyway) with reading a book ine text that there are only a few kinds of things that translate okay that way. Plus with e-text as with a kindle or nook or any e-reader you as you said, are not experiencing turning the pages, and so on. One print page is equal to I think like three and a half braille pages which is why I read on audio the most. A single volume print book can be many volumes in braille. I believe that knowing braille both for reading and for writing is vital as a blind person– for labeling items, jotting things down and so on. The stuff I read in braille are things like magazines, some mail that comes that way, restaurant menus, and cookbooks. It took me forever to switch from reading on cassette tape to reading on CD. I have read a few digital books but still prefer audio books on CD. I love character driven fiction. I read historical fiction, classics, romances, mysteries, a little paranormal here and there. Books are blessings. Love them.
OMG- I just told my husband the same thing the other day. I want to feel a real book in my hands! I think miss the smell the most and then the page turning. Yes we should make this the year of Books. Go Books!!
Hidy friend! The weather here is a little cool and very sunny so we are enjoying it today. Colder temps are headed our way though. I have inherited a 15 year old girl who loves chicken so I’m sure I will be fixing this for her soon. Boy what an appetite that girls has! And I love cucumbers so am looking forward to that recipe as well. Love you and your posts!