I am making pecan breaded chicken breasts with a blackberry wine sauce tonight. Served with acorn squash and apples with butter and brown sugar and some green beans. Really simple dinner that is a hit with our family.
Ingredients for chicken:
1lb boneless/skinless chicken breast
1/4 cup crushed pecans
1/4 cup flour
1/3 cup bread crumbs
corn starch
salt and pepper to taste
1 egg
a little bit of milk
Mix the pecans, flour and bread crumbs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. I used a little choco-hab-a-peno powder from Sicman to knock it up a notch. BAM! Mix egg and milk and beat. Dip chicken in egg mixture and coat in corn starch. Re-dip in egg mixture and coat in pecan mix. Fry in oil until browned and chicken in done.
Ingredients for blackberry wine sauce:
3/4 cup seedless blackberry preserves
3/4 cup sweet red wine (I use Barefoot Sweet Red and I usually end up finishing the bottle myself while cooking because it is so tasty!)
Combine in a small pot and cook until the alcohol cooks off. Let it re-solidify a bit before pouring on chicken.
Ingredients for brown sugar acorn squash with apples:
1 medium acorn squash, peeled, deseeded and diced
1 apple, diced (I used a Granny Smith)
brown sugar to taste
half a sick of unsalted butter
Melt butter in a pot. Add apples and squash and cook over medium heat until cooked. Add brown sugar. We like to mash it up like mashed potatoes.
Served with a King's Hawaiian Sweet Roll...
Ingredients for chicken:
1lb boneless/skinless chicken breast
1/4 cup crushed pecans
1/4 cup flour
1/3 cup bread crumbs
corn starch
salt and pepper to taste
1 egg
a little bit of milk
Mix the pecans, flour and bread crumbs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. I used a little choco-hab-a-peno powder from Sicman to knock it up a notch. BAM! Mix egg and milk and beat. Dip chicken in egg mixture and coat in corn starch. Re-dip in egg mixture and coat in pecan mix. Fry in oil until browned and chicken in done.
Ingredients for blackberry wine sauce:
3/4 cup seedless blackberry preserves
3/4 cup sweet red wine (I use Barefoot Sweet Red and I usually end up finishing the bottle myself while cooking because it is so tasty!)
Combine in a small pot and cook until the alcohol cooks off. Let it re-solidify a bit before pouring on chicken.
Ingredients for brown sugar acorn squash with apples:
1 medium acorn squash, peeled, deseeded and diced
1 apple, diced (I used a Granny Smith)
brown sugar to taste
half a sick of unsalted butter
Melt butter in a pot. Add apples and squash and cook over medium heat until cooked. Add brown sugar. We like to mash it up like mashed potatoes.
Served with a King's Hawaiian Sweet Roll...
