Pretzel-Crusted, Oven-Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce
 
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This is the perfect dish to please anyone who loves fried chicken and buffalo wings.
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Recipe type: Entree
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • CHICKEN:
  • 3 pounds chicken parts (I used breasts and thighs because that's what I had on hand)
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 3 tablespoons buffalo wing sauce
  • 1 and ½ cups pretzels
  • ½ cup flour
  • 2 tablespoon dried thyme leaves
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • BUFFALO SAUCE:
  • ½ cup crumbled blue cheese, plus two tablespoons
  • ½ cup low-fat mayonnaise
  • ¼ cup buffalo wing sauce
  • Juice from ½ of a lemon
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
Instructions
  1. CHICKEN:
  2. Mix together the eggs and wing sauce marinade. Put the chicken large plastic baggie and pour the marinade over the chicken. Put the chicken in the fridge and let it marinate for an hour.
  3. While the chicken is marinating, put the pretzels in the food processor and pulse until they're ground into crumbs. Don't puree so that the pretzels are completely ground - you want a few chunks for texture. Mix in the flour, dried thyme, garlic powder, olive oil and black pepper until combined. Add the mixture to a shallow dish.
  4. After the chicken is done marinating, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Then, dredge the chicken in the pretzel mixture, shaking off any excess. Add the chicken to a wire rack placed on top of a baking sheet. Spray the chicken with cooking spray or olive oil. Bake for 15 minutes. Flip the chicken, spray with more cooking spray and bake for another 15 minutes.
  5. Turn the heat down to 375 degrees F and cook for an additional 15-20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
  6. SAUCE:
  7. Add the ½ cup blue cheese, mayonnaise, wing sauce and lemon juice to the food processor and puree until smooth and combined. Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix in the last two tablespoons blue cheese by hand. This gives the sauce a bit of chunky texture while the pureed blue cheese gives the sauce a more even blue cheese flavor.
  8. Serve the buffalo blue cheese sauce alongside the chicken or drizzle it over the chicken along with more blue cheese crumbles.
Recipe by Healthy Recipe Ecstasy at https://www.healthyrecipeecstasy.com/fried-chicken/