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How To Make Zaxby’s Chicken Fingers (Copycat)
Enjoy perfectly crisp deep-fried Zaxby’s chicken fingers in this easy recipe. Tender chicken breasts are coated with breadcrumbs and corn flakes.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ⅓cuplow-fat buttermilk
- ¼tspsalt
- ¼tspfreshly-ground pepper
- 8cupspeanut oil
- 1½lbschicken breasts,boneless, skinless
- 1cupunseasoned breadcrumbs
- ⅓cupall-purpose flour
- 1egg,beaten
- 1cupcorn flakes,crushed
- ½tspItalian seasoning
Instructions
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Cut chicken breasts across into ½-inch pieces.
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Place the chicken and buttermilk into a shallow dish and cover.
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Chill the chicken for at least 15 minutes.
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Pour the oil into a deep frying pan and heat to 375 degrees F.
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Combine the bread crumbs, cornflakes, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning in a shallow bowl.
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Beat the egg in another shallow bowl.
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Place the flour in a shallow plate.
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Cover the chicken fingers in flour, then dip in the egg, and finally cover them with the cornflake and bread crumb mixture.
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Place the coated chicken in the hot oil and fry for 6 to 8 minutes. Drain the chicken fingers on a paper towel-lined plate.
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Cool slightly to create a crispier coating.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 4305.34kcal
- Fat: 450.51g
- Saturated Fat: 78.34g
- Trans Fat: 0.18g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 206.82g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 142.40g
- Carbohydrates: 34.52g
- Fiber: 1.82g
- Sugar: 3.39g
- Protein: 42.73g
- Cholesterol: 149.67mg
- Sodium: 555.54mg
- Calcium: 102.99mg
- Potassium: 499.16mg
- Iron: 5.57mg
- Vitamin A: 95.47µg
- Vitamin C: 1.74mg
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