Healthy Chicken Strips, with pic!

BR3ANDA
BR3ANDA Posts: 622 Member
edited December 27 in Recipes
I made some chicken strips today, substituting flour or bread crumbs for healthy quinoa flakes! They are wonderfully delicious, crunchy, savory, and absolutely good for you! Btw, gluten and dairy free.

All you need is:
1 egg
1 tsp water
1/2 cup quinoa flakes
4 chicken tenderloins

Whisk your egg end water together, dunk your tenderloins in the egg wash, roll them in your quinoa flakes, place it on a baking rack on a baking sheet, season to taste, and bake for 20 mins at 375 F, serve with a salad or your favorite side dish.

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  • lcooke24
    lcooke24 Posts: 115 Member
    Thanks!! Going to have to try this one!
  • CherBear1958
    CherBear1958 Posts: 14 Member
    These look great. Got to try them.
  • sef0057
    sef0057 Posts: 18 Member
    This looks great; thank you for the recipe!
  • moonlightturk
    moonlightturk Posts: 398
    Yum looks good and healthy.
  • HealthierHappierBrenda
    HealthierHappierBrenda Posts: 221 Member
    thanks for sharing; i'm definitely going to try this recipe!!
  • VogtAndrea
    VogtAndrea Posts: 236
    That sounds really good. I have a friend that has to eat gluten free and casein free too because she's a ciliac. This recipe just might give her a chance to cook something for herself that her husband will actually eat and enjoy too.
  • BR3ANDA
    BR3ANDA Posts: 622 Member
    My nephew has celiac, so I'm always trying to come up with new stuff he can eat.
  • mulcahya
    mulcahya Posts: 82 Member
    That looks amazing!
  • vicky1804
    vicky1804 Posts: 320 Member
    Oh with hot spices these would be just like hot wings from KFC YUMMY !
  • Jennical
    Jennical Posts: 219 Member
    This looks delicious!! Thanks for sharing.
  • awwwshux25
    awwwshux25 Posts: 96 Member
    bump
  • gwenmf
    gwenmf Posts: 888 Member
    Where do you buy quinoa flakes?
  • BrendaHyde
    BrendaHyde Posts: 115 Member
    Thanks for sharing.
  • GreekByMarriage
    GreekByMarriage Posts: 320 Member
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  • BR3ANDA
    BR3ANDA Posts: 622 Member
    Where do you buy quinoa flakes?

    I find them at our local grocery store, Kroger, in the organic section, they are by Ancient Harvest, most whole foods stores carry then also.
  • Brandon74
    Brandon74 Posts: 453 Member
    That looks good. Where did you purchase Quinoa flakes? I love to make breaded chicken, and I have used regular bread crumbs or corn meal.

    I have also read that crushed up corn flakes cereal is also a good option to use in place of breaded seasoning.
  • allisonmrn
    allisonmrn Posts: 721 Member
    Yum, this looks great. thanks for sharing!! :-)
  • BR3ANDA
    BR3ANDA Posts: 622 Member
    That looks good. Where did you purchase Quinoa flakes? I love to make breaded chicken, and I have used regular bread crumbs or corn meal.

    I have also read that crushed up corn flakes cereal is also a good option to use in place of breaded seasoning.
    I find them at our local grocery store, Kroger, in the organic section, they are by Ancient Harvest, most whole foods stores carry them also.
  • Jenny_Lou20
    Jenny_Lou20 Posts: 60 Member
    bump - I love chicken strips in my salads! A healthy option is so wonderful :)
  • hotch2014
    hotch2014 Posts: 13 Member
    I can't even express how delicious that looks/sounds! Not to mention, dare I say it, healthy! :)))
  • camsamdad
    camsamdad Posts: 53 Member
    bump
  • emyjeter
    emyjeter Posts: 75 Member
    The texture looks amazing. I will definitely have to share with my family.
  • BR3ANDA
    BR3ANDA Posts: 622 Member
    The texture looks amazing. I will definitely have to share with my family.

    They crisp up really nice! I made them again last night, but I had to put them under the broiler for a sec to brown this time around, not sure why, I didnt change anything, so if you make them and they dont brown very well, try that.
  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
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  • mocchioni
    mocchioni Posts: 63 Member
    They look great. I will have to give them a try. Thanks for sharing.

    Mark
  • gonnadoit2010
    gonnadoit2010 Posts: 53 Member
    Gotta try this, thanks.
  • Jessie1227
    Jessie1227 Posts: 71 Member
    bumppp! thanks for this, it looks awesome! :)
  • leambi
    leambi Posts: 452 Member
    Bump
  • kbmnurse
    kbmnurse Posts: 2,484 Member
    How many calories do you think? Look amazing. Yum Yum
  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
    Half a cup of the crispy quinoa cereal i bought only has 130 calories, so 1/4 cup has 65, 1/4 c is 4 tablespoons, so roughly 16 cals a tablespoon. 80 cals in an egg so just see how much of the egg mix you end up using-if you used half then its 40 cals, ect. Cals in chicken are easy enough to find out on the net.

    So say (you'll need to add your own values for thechicken and how much egg you end up using, this is an example) you have four strips of chicken. Each strip is 50 cals. You dip each piece into the eggs and when youre done youve used half the eggs, so 40 cals, ten per chicken steip.

    Then each strip takes a tbs of quinoa.

    Strip-50
    Egg -10
    Quinoa-16

    Each strip would have 76 cals, or 304 cals for all four.
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