Heart Healthy Recipes - Fried Chicken

Learning to cook heart healthy recipes is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The key to heart healthy recipes is finding healthy substitutes for your less than healthy favorite ingredients. The goal is to use ingredients that lower the sodium, saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat in your meals. Most people are aware margarine is a healthy alternative to butter. Some of the lesser known healthy substitutions are avocados in place of mayonnaise or ground turkey instead of most red meats. Most high-fat or high-calorie ingredients recipes require can be replaced by something healthier. To prove it, this recipe is for fried chicken. Probably not something you’d imagine as being good for you. But it can be done.

Ingredients:

½ cup skim milk, soy milk or buttermilk

1 tsp. poultry seasoning

1 cup crumbled cornflakes

1 ½ Tbsp. onion powder

1 ½ Tbsp. garlic powder

3 tsp. ground black pepper

2 tsp. dried, crushed hot pepper

1 tsp. olive oil

½ tsp. paprika

8 pieces of chicken, skinless

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the milk and the poultry seasoning. Combine all the other spices with the cornflakes in a Ziploc bag. Dip the chicken breast in the milk and let it drip-dry most of the milk off. Put the chicken in the Ziploc bag and shake it. Refrigerate for at least a half an hour. Remove the chicken from the fridge and sprinkle a little extra paprika for presentation. Place the chicken on a lightly oiled pan. Cover the chicken with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. Do not turn the chicken. Remove the foil and bake an additional 30 minutes. The chicken should be tender and easily separated from the bone by now. Let it cool and enjoy your healthy fried chicken alternative.