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| Oven Fried Ranch Chicken |
This oven fried chicken is absolutely yummy. Best part of it is, it uses very little fat, unlike most oven-fried chicken recipes. In fact, you can eliminate the fat entirely if you are using leg quarters or thighs with the skin on. Breasts, because of the low fat content (even with skin on) will require the fat, as well as skinless parts. Chicken is very juicy and flavorful due to the brining process.
I serve this oven fried chicken many times cold with my Herbed Potato Salad with Pesto Aoli and a green salad. Nice hot too with either a baked potato or mashed and whole steamed green beans.
The Recipe
Oven Fried Ranch Chicken
This oven fried chicken is absolutely yummy. Best part of it is, it uses very little fat, unlike most oven-fried chicken recipes.
Servings: 4 -8
Calories: 641kcal
Ingredients
- 1 whole frying chicken cut into pieces
- 1 cup flour or baking mix such as Bisquick
- 1 envelope dry ranch salad dressing mix
- 2 tbsp butter/margarine OR olive oil
BRINE
- 2 quarts water
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup kosher coarse salt
Instructions
- Prepare brine by mixing all ingredients. Place chicken parts in a deep bowl or a large plastic container with a lid (such as Lock & Lock). Pour brine over chicken; cover. Place in refrigerator for 2-4 hrs--no longer. If you want to brine overnight, I suggest using buttermilk instead, as I learned the hard way when I forgot about the chicken and ended up with very salty chicken!!!
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place butter or olive oil in a 13 x 9 baking dish. Place pan in oven to melt butter or heat oil. Once heated/melted, distribute across the bottom of the pan.
- Prepare coating mix by mixing flour and dressing mix in a large plastic bag. Place 2 pieces at a time in the bag and shake well to cover chicken. Place in baking pan skin side down.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 35 min; turn chicken skin side up and bake an additional 15-20 min or until chicken is golden brown and juices run clear.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 641kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 39g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 158mg | Sodium: 7806mg | Potassium: 393mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 442IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 3mg
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granny1940 says
how am i supposed to print the recipe if all the daily meal captions are across the top where the print button is?
Judith Hanneman says
There's a green print button in the footer of the post. All the way down the bottom. If you can't see that, then you can use the browser's print function (under FILE at the very top) but that will print everything on the page, including the background.
ebbtide says
Do you have the nutritional values on this chicken recipe?
Judith Hanneman says
Just posted them. I'm trying to get to all my older entries with this info.
Betsy Cohen says
I LOVE fried chicken but HATE the mess. This looks like the perfect solution!!
Judith Hanneman says
I'd love to tell you it is Betsy–but this is pretty messy too. Your hands get gloopy from the coating but at least you don't have oil splattered all over your stove from frying!!!!