Cajun Oven Fried Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Place chicken in a shallow nonmetal dish and pour the buttermilk over the pieces, turning to coat. Cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight. (If you forget to plan ahead, you can skip this step, just dip the chicken in buttermilk before coating with the crumb mixture.).
• Combine cornflake crumbs, paprika and Cajun seasoning in a gallon size plastic bag. Close the bag and shake well to mix. Take one piece of chicken at a time out of the buttermilk, place in coating bag and shake to coat evenly. Place on a baking sheet or stoneware pan. repeat with remaining chicken. Lightly spritz each piece with nonstick vegetable spray or an olive oil spray. Bake at 425 F for 20-25 minutes.

Steps:

• Inject all pieces with marinade. I use King Kooker Hot & Spicy, but any spicy brand will do.
• Season all pieces with Cajun seasoning. I use Tony Chachere's.
• Coat pieces with Creole mustard.
• Mix eggs, milk and hot sauce in a shallow bowl.
• Put two cups of flour in a large gallon size baggie.
• Put the other two cups in another baggie, and season with 3 tbl Cajun seasoning.
• Heat oil for frying.
• Working with a couple pieces at a time, lightly coat pieces in unseasoned flour, dip into milk mixture, drain off excess, and thoroughly coat with seasoned flour.
• When all pieces are coated, fry until done. Place on paper towel and season again with Cajun seasoning.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking pan with aluminum foil.
• Pat drumsticks with paper towels until dry.
• Combine baking powder, salt, black pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, basil, thyme, oregano, cumin and cayenne pepper in a medium bowl. Add melted butter and stir until combined. Add drumsticks and toss until fully coated. Place drumsticks into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until drumsticks are no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, 20 to 25 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

Steps:

• In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first seven ingredients. Add chicken half at a time, and shake to coat.
• In a large skillet, cook chicken in butter for 8 to 10 minutes or until the juices run clear.
• Garnish with parsley and peppers if desired.

Steps:

• Rinse and pat dry chicken pieces with a paper towel.
• Cut breast pieces in half across ribs.
• Soak Mixture: place enough buttermilk to completely submerge chicken pieces, add 1 tablespoons of hot sauce & whisk together.
• Soak chicken in Buttermilk and hot sauce mixture at least 3 hours in the refrigerator.
• Heat oil in a large deep pot to 350°F DO NOT FILL POT MORE THEN HALF FULL WITH OIL.
• Flour Mixture:In a Ziploc bag, combine 1 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, a pinch of cayenne pepper,1/2 teaspoon paprika and 1/2 teaspoon Creole seasoning. Close bag and mix well.
• Pat chicken dry with a clean paper towel and sprinkle with garlic powder and Creole seasoning.
• One piece at a time, Place chicken in inside ziploc bag flour mixture.
• Shake coated chicken over bag to get rid of excess coating.
• Drop the coated chicken into hot oil.
• Don't place too many chicken pieces, Cook 3 to 4 at a time.
• Fry chicken until brown and crisp.
• Drain on paper towel.
• Note: Dark meat will take about 14 minutes, white meat about 10 minutes. Smaller pieces cook faster than the larger ones, You can check by piercing to the bone in the thickest part with a fork. If the juices run clear, it is done.

Steps:

• preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• combine buttermilk, cajun seasoning, and salt in a shallow dish.
• place the panko in another shallow dish.
• take your chicken pieces and dip them first in the butermilk mixture, then into the panko.
• do one piece at a time.
• line your baking sheet with parchment paper, and place the chicken pieces on it.
• lightly spray each chicken piece with the cooking spray.
• bake for 40 minutes at 400 degrees or until done, turning the chicken pieces after they have baked for 20 minutes.