Simple Oven-Fried Chicken
Simple Oven-Fried Chicken with butter and bread crumbs makes an easy, crispy, crowd-pleasing weeknight dinner straight from your oven.
Ingredients
- 3 pound Chicken
- 0.5 pound Butter
- 0.5 teaspoon Salt
- 0.25 teaspoon Black Pepper
- 2 cup Bread Crumbs
- 2 tablespoon Cornstarch
Instructions
- Rinse and pat-dry chicken pieces.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan.
- Mix the salt, pepper, bread crumbs and cornstarch thoroughly.
- Dip each piece of chicken into the melted butter and then into the bread crumb mixture.
- Place the chicken pieces skin-side down, in a shallow baking pan.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes, then turn each piece of chicken over, skin-side up, and continue cooking for another 25 minutes, or until each piece is richly browned and can be easily pierced with a fork.
- Serve at once.