Southern
Pecan-Crusted Chicken
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oven to 400F and line a sheet pan.
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Pulse the pecans with the panko until coarsely ground, then spread on a plate.
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Set up the flour seasoned with salt and pepper in one dish and the eggs beaten with the Dijon and honey in another.
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Dredge each chicken breast in the flour, dip in the egg mixture, and press firmly into the pecan mixture to coat.
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Melt the butter on the sheet pan in the oven, then lay the chicken on top and drizzle with any extra butter.
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Bake until the crust is golden and the chicken registers 165F, about 22 minutes, turning once.
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Rest 5 minutes and serve.
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Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pecan-Crusted Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pecan-Crusted Chicken carries tree nuts, dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Dairy | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Gluten | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 540 kcal
- Protein
- 38 g
- Carbs
- 24 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 10 g
- Sodium
- 520 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pecan-Crusted Chicken takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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