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Buffalo Chicken Strips
Breaded chicken drizzled with oil, topped with a hot, spicy, buttery sauce and crumbles of your favorite blue cheese.
Prep Time20 Mins
Cook Time25 Mins
Total Time45 Mins
Ingredients
- 5 chicken breasts, pounded to 1/2 thickness
- 0.75 cup almond flour
- 0.5 cup hot sauce
- 0.25 cup olive oil
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp blue cheese crumbles
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- In a ramekin, combine paprika, chili powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder.
- Pound out chicken breasts to ½” thickness, then cut the chicken breasts in half.
- Sprinkle 1/3 of the spice mix over the chicken breast then flip them over and do the same with 1/3 of the spice mix.
- In a bowl, combine almond flour and 1/3 of the spice mix.
- In another container, crack 2 eggs and whisk them.
- Dip each piece of seasoned chicken into the spice mix and then into the almond flour. Make sure each side is coated well.
- Lay each piece on a cooling rack on top of a foiled baking sheet.
- Bake the chicken for 15 minutes. Take the chicken out of the oven and turn your oven to broil. Drizzle 2 Tbsp. olive oil over the chicken.
- Broil for 5 minutes, flip the breasts, drizzle with remaining olive oil, and broil again for 5 minutes.
- In a sauce pan, combined ½ Cup of hot sauce with 3 tbsp. butter.
- Serve chicken with slathering of hot sauce and blue cheese crumbles.
Nutrition
Fats 54g
Protein 41g
Net Carbs 4.8g