No-Fry Fried Chicken 'n
Cheddar Biscuits
(w/ Built-in Healthy Tweaking)

This recipe is one I've done with great success over time but I am tweaking it just a little to see if I can leave my Mark on it enough to own it.  
This is a really great example of Healthy Tweaking without sacrificing any taste at all.  No frying, no chicken skin, no egg to bind the breading (even the yogurt that you sub the egg for is non-fat) and you still get a great crunch! AND it also has another great home made bread crumb recipe. 

Ingredients:

chicken:
6 skinless, bone-in chicken thighs or halved bone in breasts
1 1/3 cups 1 cup Rice Krispies
2 1/4 cups bagel chips or Melba toasts  2 cups plain bagel chips crushed
olive oil
3/4 teaspoons paprika
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt 1/2 cup plain fat free Greek yogurt
1 teaspoon 1 1/2 teaspoons dijon mustard
2 bunches a few scallions
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons pepper
+ 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
+ 1/4 garlic powder

biscuits:
cupcake liners
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
2 handfuls of reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese

(Start with the biscuits)
Preheat oven to 400°

Line a cupcake pan with liners (or lay them out on a cookie sheet).

Mix the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. Add the (Veg) oil, egg and milk.  Stir until the batter becomes smooth.  Sticky, but smooth.  Fold in your cheese.  Fill the cups about 2/3 full and put in the oven for about 18 minutes.  Top with a little more cheese for effect if you like.

Increase and Preheat oven to 475°

Grind your bagel chips and Krispies in a food processor along with your salt and pepper(s), paprika and garlic powder.  Throw the crumbs into a large Ziploc bag and add 3 teaspoons of olive oil.
Mix your yogurt and mustard in a small bowl.  Run your chicken pieces through the mixture and them to your crumby Ziploc bag and shake till all pieces are coated with the crumbs.

Spray a cooking rack (preferably a drip tray with slats that comes as a two piece kitchen staple) with vegetable spray (like PAM) and lie your pieces on it and some of the scallions (whole) and spray with more vegetable spray.  *If you don't have a "two piece kitchen staple", I have no idea what it is called, it won't be the worst to put it on a foil lined cookie sheet.  Bake 35 minutes.
 

Notes:

This is the best of healthy tweaking out there....a fried food without frying....I tweak things all the time using the basis of the recipe I took from on this meal.

Tweaks:

Read above for a list of changes I made to ingredients and amounts including the use of fat free yogurt. 

Verdict: Success

Surely Neighbor-worthy-but we rip through this so fast, there is NEVER any to share.

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