Baked cornflake chicken
Crispy, crunchy cornflake chicken baked until golden is the perfect recipe for family dinner, served with creamy mashed potatoes and gravy.
I have been making this easy cornflake chicken for as long as I can remember. It’s the perfect healthy-ish dinner when my kids ask for fried chicken and is so much easier than making fried chicken from scratch. I love how the corn flakes go super crispy. Seasoning the crumbs with all the usual fried chicken seasonings means that this tastes just as good as its fried alternative. Serve with mashed potatoes and gravy, greens, coleslaw or corn and you’ll have nothing but empty plates.
How to make cornflake chicken
The most important thing about making the best cornflake chicken is to season the crumbs generously. Blend corn flakes, smoked paprika, dried oregano, dried thyme, garlic powder, onion powder, chilli powder, salt and pepper together in a blender. Season bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and drumsticks with salt then coat in seasoned flour. Press the flour into all the nooks and crannies of the chicken to make sure that the entire surface is covered. Coat the chicken in beaten egg and finally in the corn flake crumbs. Place the chicken on a wire rack set over a baking sheet. Place in a preheated oven and allow to bake for 30-45 minutes until the chicken is golden brown and cooked through. Remove from the oven and serve.
What to serve with cornflake chicken
- Garlic parmesan mashed potatoes
- Creamy condensed milk potato salad
- Easy spicy garlic roasted broccoli
Crispy chicken recipes
Baked cornflake chicken
Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs (bone-in, skin-on)
- 4 chicken drumsticks
- 2 cups flour seasoned with salt and pepper
- 3 large eggs beaten
For the cornflake crumbs
- 3 cups corn flakes
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- ½ tsp onion powder
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F.
- Combine the corn flakes and spices in a food processor and blend until fine. Place the crumbs in a large, flat bowl.
- Place flour into another flat bowl and season with salt and pepper.
- Beat the eggs into a third bowl.
- Season the chicken with salt then cover in the seasoned flour. Coat in the beaten egg next followed by the seasoned crumbs. Make sure the chicken is well covered at every step.
- Place the chicken on a wire rack set over a baking dish/sheet.
- Place in the oven and allow to bake for 30-40 minutes or until the chicken is golden brown and cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and serve with side dishes of your choice.
Nutrition
Very yummy and tasty…
Just joined up with Claudz for her July Recipe a Week Challenge and I cannot wait to make this chicken tomorrow night x
i’m so glad you posted this! It totally takes me back to my childhood and this recipe that my sister found in a kids cookbook. It was my favorite dish! I can’t wait to make this.
Let me know what you think Kristen!
looks so crispy !!! yumm yummmmmmmmmm
This looks so good, I am trying it tonight (on my very kind boyfriend). I have no natural knack when it comes to the kitchen, but I think I can just about manage this (will be watching the oven like a hawk!). Wish me luck!
I’ll have to try this..I have done something similar before but not cornflakes
I made it last night and it came out very, very well. Even my very fussy toddler, that don’t eat KFC ate some of it.
Rene, I’m SO glad your family liked it!
You are brilliant! I just made this tonight for my husband and two kids. Everyone loved it. It was so wonderfully moist on the inside, but crispy and nicely salted on the outside. I am going to try making some beef with this recipe. I’m thinking that a thin cut such as flank steak would be lovely. Thanks again!!
Yummy! I just have the usual fried chicken. This is very tantalizing!
Great looking recipe for kids and adults! I’d love for you to submit this to the M&T Spotlight: http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
This looks really wonderful, thank you for sharing. We’d love to feature your photos on kitchenartistry.com
mmmm this sounds yummy, since hubby is ‘buying’ me a new kitchen next month i have promised to make my cooking more adventurous but i love this idea because it’s not too difficult yet it sounds scrummy!
thanks for your lovely recipes
I do something very similar but take the skin off (we haven’t cooked chicken with skin on since I can remember) and I add a bit of parmesan to the cornflake crumb mixture
HIla : Thanx for the tip. 🙂
Vix : It really is easy and I’m sure Elwyn will LOVE it! 🙂
Nina : I very almost did eat the leftovers but common sense kicked in just in time! 😉