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.
Hi Christy, you just so saved my life I had forgotten about your home made version of cream of chicken soup substitute in Come Home to Supper. I can not get it from the American store right now they are out of it and our Australian version is not the same. I am looking forward to making crispy Chicken soon . Hope you had a lovely day for your birthday.
I had a wonderful day Judi, thank you !!! So glad I could help out and hope you enjoy the recipe!!
Lovely recipe!! I adore chicken and I’m always looking for new ways to fix it. My daughter bought me a Kindle when I went to care for her dog and cat while she was deployed to Afghanistan almost 4 years ago. Certainly was the best gift she could ever have given me as I am totally addicted to books and read all the time. My personal real-book library is probably around 1,000 volumes (used to be more, but they get hard to store – run out of room for bookcases!) and I have around 3,000 books on my Kindle. I am also frugal and have paid for only 2 of the books on my Kindle – love all the free books I have found there. That is especially nice if I don’t like a book, I can delete it and not feel like I wasted money.
How sweet of her!!! Thank her for her service for me!!
Happy birthday! Mine is today.
Thank you Annie!! Happy Birthday to you!!
I have to agree. I have a nook, and it is handy. But I LOVE REAL BOOKS. Digital books just aren’t the same. You can’t tear a recipe out of an e-reader. 😉
Amen!
Glad I’m not the only one who likes to tear recipes from a magazine when I’m finished with it.
I LOVE my NookColor!!! My husband bought it as an UNwished-for Christmas gift a few years ago and I couldn’t live without it now! I saw it as something that cost a lot AND was going to eat up a lot more money for books….little did I know about all the FREE books. I download something just about every day when my BookBub post shows up on Facebook. I like how I can read in the car at night, and read in bed with it turned to the black screen and the white letters dimmed to not disturb hubby. I like being able to make the font larger too. If I do read a paper book, it just bothers me. Now for the recipe…going to try that one. Oh, I made the 3 recipe biscuits last weekend! Good, but going to make mine larger next time.
Great points Melissa!! Glad you liked the biscuits!!
Isn’t it wonderful we live in a place where it is possible to have both e-readers and tactile books. I wouldn’t take any amount of money for my grandmother’s copy of “Girl of the Limberlost” by Gene Stratton Porter, and yet thanks to my Kindle, I have been able to read other books by the same author for free. I am so gratefu to have grown up in a family where I watched my parents read, heard my parents read to my brother and me, and was taught to value all the gifts a book could bring!
We are blessed indeed Marynell!!
I have an author that I like: Laura Childs. She does mystery books. Kind of a Nancy Drew for adults. She does: Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbooking Mysteries, and a mystery series called, Cackleberry Club ( one of which is called, “Eggs Benedict Arnold”). I think you would like them.
Took a book (with three stories in it) when we went on our cruise. You’ll have to check them out!
I will have to check those out Angela!! Thank you for letting me know about them!