Coming from a Mississippi bred family, learning how to fry chicken around the same time I learned how to ride a bike is not only considered normal but proper. Nowadays, I love to have the OG but with a lighter twist. My oven fried chicken is giving all that flavor, juiciness and crispiness without the pot of grease. Trust me, that crunch factor in this oven baked fried chicken is still next level. Get at it.
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Video Tutorial
How to Make Oven Fried Chicken
Step 1: Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
In a medium sized bowl, whisk together eggs, hot sauce and worcestershire and set aside.
Step 2: Next add flour, seasoned salt, cornstarch, paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper, garlic powder and onion powder to a paper bag and shake to mix well. Drizzle milk into the flour and use a fork to mix it into the flour and create crumbs.
Step 3: Dip each piece of chicken into flour mixture.
Step 4: Then dip into the egg wash coating both sides.
Step 5: Then dip back into seasoned flour thoroughly coating each piece. Then add piece to parchment lined baking sheet that’s liberally sprayed with cooking spray to rest. Finish coating all chicken and let sit for 10-15 minutes until coating has set.
Step 6: Liberally spray the tops of chicken tenders with non stick spray and drizzle the tops of chicken with tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked throughout.
Oven Fried Chicken Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 pound chicken I used tenders here
- 3 large eggs beaten
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2- 3 tablespoons seasoned salt
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Non-stick cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Optional: Lemon wedges for garnish and serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together eggs, hot sauce and worcestershire and set aside.
- Next add flour, seasoned salt, cornstarch, paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper, garlic powder and onion powder to a paper bag and shake to mix well.
- Drizzle milk into the flour and use a fork to mix it into the flour and create crumbs.
- Dip each piece of chicken into flour mixture and then egg wash coating both sides then dip back into seasoned flour thoroughly coating each piece. Then add piece to baking sheet lined with parchment paper that's been sprayed with oil spray to rest.
- Finish coating all chicken and let sit for 10-15 minutes until coating has set.
- Liberally spray the tops of chicken with non stick spray and drizzle the tops of chicken with tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked throughout. Serve with lemon wedges and sprinkle lemon on chicken if you wish.
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Notes
How to Store
Store the chicken in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. For reheating, pop them in the oven at 375 degrees or use an air fryer until they’re crispy and heated through, about 10 minutes.Nutrition
Recipe Tips
- Crumb Action: I also create some cool crumb action by doing something I learned from the Pioneer Woman. I add a drizzle of milk to my seasoned flour and then use a fork to create crumbs in the mixture.
- Spray it down: Really spray the chicken with the oil spray thoroughly so you don’t end up with dry spots once baked.
- Chicken options: You can use whatever chicken you like. I used chicken tenders that had skin removed for easy and smaller portions. If you use white meat, keep in mind to not over bake it and dry it out.
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Serving Suggestions
- Weeknight Dinner: I love this easy pairing of the chicken with sour cream mashed potatoes and chicken gravy.
- Soul Food Meal: This is perfect served with collard greens or mustard greens, candied sweet potatoes and a little hot water cornbread.
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Hands down, this is the BEST no-frying fried chicken recipe I’ve tried, and I’ve tried many. Tastes very close to my grandmother’s from Arkansas too. Get the best results when I bake them on top of a baking rack topped with parchment so the hot air circulates around the bottom. Thank you, Jocelyn, for this amazing recipe and love your cooking and cookbook!! ❤️
You’re so welcome! Thank you for making my recipes!
Very good!!
My chicken was not very crispy. At twenty minutes, the breading was barely cooked. I gave it another ten but if I left it any longer the chicken would be inedibly dry.
All the comments rave about this. What am I doing wrong?
TASTY! Used Carbquick flour, which has palm oil flakes in it, to reduce the carbs and that helped create more of a fried breading with less oil. Also cooked the tenders on parchment on top of a baking rack to get air on the bottom, and it’s damn close to the real thing my grandma from Arkansas made. Thank you for this delicious recipe!
Fantastic recipe and great presentation.
Can this recipe be used for bone in chicken?
Absolutely!
I already posted a comment about this awesome recipe, but wanted to add that this recipe made a whole lot more egg mixture and flour mixture than I needed for my 1 pound of chicken tenders. Next time, I plan on scaling it back, or maybe just using more chicken.
This recipe was so easy and delicious. I made this recipe as directed, with the exception that I used Zatarain’s creole seasoning in place of the seasoned salt, because that’s what I had on hand. And because I used creole seasoning, I omitted the cayenne, because I didn’t want TOO much heat. Even with this change, the breading had plenty of flavor. The tenders didn’t turn out as crispy as I had hoped, but I suspect that this had something to do with my poor oil drizzling skills, LOL. Most of the oil ended up on the baking sheet instead of the chicken. But, all in all, the tenders turned out great. I will definitely make these again.
Thank you!
Tasty tenders and my picky 3year old loved them too!
Thank you very much
This recipe sounds delicious. I am going to try it this week. What is ironic about this is that I was planning to look for an oven fried chicken recipe tonight and this showed up in my email tonight. thanks for posting.