How To Make Baked Chicken with Spicy Maple Sauce
Add a tasty crunch to your baked chicken dish by using whole-grain waffles. Learn how to make a spicy maple sauce for this chicken dish. Try this at home.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Chicken:
- 1½lbschicken breast,boneless, skinless
- 1cupreduced-fat buttermilk
- ½tspkosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1large egg,lightly beaten
- dashtabasco,optional
- 4whole grain or multi-grain frozen waffles,lightly toasted and cooled
- 1tspfresh thyme,chopped
- cooking spray
For Sauce:
- 1tspolive oil
- 1clovesmall garlic,finely minced
- ¼cupreduced sodium chicken broth
- 2tbsppure maple syrup
- 1tspapple cider vinegar
- ¼tspred pepper flakes
- ½tspfresh thyme,chopped
Instructions
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Cut the chicken into 6 cutlets and place them in a shallow dish.
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Pour the buttermilk over the chicken pieces, refrigerate and let them soak for at least 1 hour.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Break the waffles into small pieces and pulse in a food processor until they resemble coarse crumbs.
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Evenly spread the crumbs on a baking sheet and bake for 4 minutes. Set aside to cool.
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Remove the chicken from the buttermilk, place on a paper towel-lined plate and pat the chicken with another towel to dry the surface of each piece. Discard leftover buttermilk.
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Season both sides of the chicken with ¼ teaspoon of salt and pepper.
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Put the egg and tabasco in a shallow dish or bowl. Combine the waffle crumbs, thyme, ¼ teaspoon of salt, and pepper in another dish.
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Dip chicken in egg, then crumb mixture.
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Transfer the cutlet to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
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Lightly spray each piece with cooking spray.
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Bake for 20 minutes, or until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees F.
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Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes.
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Meanwhile, heat small non-stick skillet over medium heat.
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Add the olive oil and garlic and sauté for about 1 minute.
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Add the chicken broth, syrup, vinegar, red pepper flakes, and thyme.
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Bring the sauce to slow boil and allow it to reduce by half.
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To serve, top each chicken piece with ½ tablespoon of sauce.
Nutrition
- Calories: 421.21kcal
- Fat: 21.96g
- Saturated Fat: 5.21g
- Trans Fat: 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.62g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6.58g
- Carbohydrates: 24.27g
- Fiber: 0.22g
- Sugar: 6.06g
- Protein: 30.25g
- Cholesterol: 139.71mg
- Sodium: 547.12mg
- Calcium: 204.32mg
- Potassium: 437.97mg
- Iron: 2.31mg
- Vitamin A: 79.85µg
- Vitamin C: 1.10mg
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