Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

I purchased a bag of chicken tenders from Trader Joe's. I freakin love those things, They are so easy to prepare in different dishes, but I mostly eat them when I'm doing the healthy eating kick. You can just grab 3, season and throw them in the oven and bake or roast for a quick easy lowfat meal.

Well this particular day I was tired of baked chicken. I wanted some good ole regular home cooked FRIED chicken, but all I had was strips. So like the kiddie plate on the kiddie menu I fried me up a batch of chicken strips!

To make the meal a tad more grown up I accompanied the strips with garlic peppered green beans with potatoes, regular buttered white rice (tired of brown) and cornbread with brown sugar cinnamon butter. As you can see I was rebelling against dieting and have lots of butter on this plate. *shrugs* This meal was prepared in my early withdrawal days of my Coke fast. not shown Heinz Ketchup and Banana Sauce for dipping.

Chicken Strips:

• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/8 teaspoon red pepper
• Flour
• 8 boneless skinless chicken strips
• Canola oil for frying

Season all strips in a bowl cover and refrigerate for up to 2 hours or over night.
Dredge strips in flour and add to hot oil fry until done.
Garlic Pepper Green Beans

Green Beans:

• 1 16 oz can of no salt green beans 
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• In lieu of 1 clove garlic 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper or regular
• a little sugar to taste
• 1 small potato peeled and cut into cubes

 Bring all ingredients to boil in sauce pan cook until done.

White Rice
I used Mahatma rice
Recipe on the bag

Cornbread
Recipe on back of cornmeal box

Brown sugar cinnamon butter
On this I winged it. It was all to taste
Half stick of softened butter
Cinnamon
Brown sugar

 

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